Gather 'round the fire,kids, for Dark Lord Rob has some tales to spin. Herein you will discover DLR's fiction, as luminous as it is voluminous. The serials are down for the moment, but you can read what's available so far and get a feel for the immensity of the project and the scope of the imaginarium...
If you look behind the shadows, there are further shadows still...
 | It's H.P. Lovecraft a go-go! Something very, very bad happened back in the sixties when a group of students threw an LSD-drenched rock concert in witch-haunted Arkham, Massachussetts... and now the survivors are feeling compelled to recreate that infamous Acid Test. |
 | When Barrett Greenwell awakens in a barren pumpkin field, he doesn't know where he is, and barely knows who. Before long he finds himself off on a mystical quest across a shadow world of perpetual Halloween. |
 | Back in 1972, Arthur Dante had a very unpleasant experience in a very strange "Spook House" ride on the boardwalk at Atlantic City. In fact, he fled the ride, terrified. And then spent the next thirty years travelling the country, visiting every small-town carnival and haunted hayride looking for an answer to a question he couldn't even formulate. And now he's found it. |
 | There's something very strange about Billy Joe McAllister's neighbors. First, they've moved into a haunted house. Without bringing along any furniture. Second, they seem intent on bringing him along to something called "The Dark Festival", something that doesn't seem to take place in any real place, at any real time. And third, well, their cat can read minds. |
 | One of my earliest attempts at screenwriting was a Lovecraftian tale of a strange beast lurking in an abandoned factory, which I started novelizing as well. I found the file recently, liked it, and am continuing the novelization. "H.P. Lovecraft was Right!" |
 | The ongoing escapades of a group of self-styled high school ghost-debunkers, who, under the guidance of one Dark Lord Rob, discover that there are more things in heaven and earth... Yeah, so I'm riffing on Scooby-Doo a bit. So what? You'll have a blast. |
 | A serialized thriller that pits a lion-tamer (and his pet lion) against a gang of seriously demented animal rights terrorists.
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 | An action thriller about an average guy who, by accident, stumbles upon an underground society of serial killers and is promptly in flight for his life. There is no safety, no sanctuary - but our hero is not content to run scared. He fights back, and the line between hunters and prey swiftly blurs. Expect two-fisted excitement and horror a bit more fact-based than is comforting to consider. |
 | Okay, not really horror. This whimsical adventure is what you would get if Hammer had made the James Bond films. Gadgets, foul villains, hair-breadth escapes and heroic bon mots. Plus vampires. |
 | An experimental suspense tale about which I shan't divulge further details other than that it was written a few years back for my short-lived print zine. Short Story/novella(?) Read it all here. |
 | A chilling novella about a group of WWII sailors stranded on a life raft that discovers that there are worse things beneath the waves than sharks... "compelling" - Factsheet Five. Novella. Read it all here. |
Today is made up of yesterday/ and tomorrow... - Jefferson Airplane.
These few tales are Dark Lord Rob at his "artiest" - thankfully, DLR never gets too arty ('cause he's always stealthily arty to begin with).
Mastiffs in space! High flyin' space opera excitement! More interstellar thrills than you can shake a mastiff-sized tug toy at! Wow!
It's life in the year 102 A.J. (After Jerry) in the mountain utopia of Greater Bear Warren, where apprentice Wizard Raccoon O'Reilly struggles to find his place in a society that suddenly finds itself under attack.
A magical fable wherein The Trundles (Tom, Saul, Raj, and Bingo) set out across the titular sea on a mystical quest. Sort of Yellow Submarine meets Lord of the Rings. Sort of.
A spin-off from Spacedog, in which the educated mastiff Branwell relates tales of mastiff myth and history. The first, Rrou's Saga, details the title dog's adventures during the Wolf Wars.
Fantasy adventure in the grand style, set in a universe inspired by the album covers and black light posters of the early 70's. A motley group of modern Americans find themselves cast into a Tolkien/Uriah Heep wonderland of demons and wizards.
Psychedelic Tom Clancy! An elite team of psychedelic renegades and iconoclasts set off on missions into the inner realm, battling the forces of metaphysical evil!
The ongoing adventures of Joshua Trasker and his starship crew, sailing the spaceways in the best classic Trek manner. In our first serial, Tark ya Lantro, Trasker and crew face sabotage and murder as they attempt to transport two poets to a galactic poetry festival.
Psychedelic surrelist sci-fi. Listening to a certain 1968 album in the right frame of mind literally transports one back to the '60's - for a purpose. The band who recorded it are genuine aliens - and need human agents to help them retrieve lost articles. What follows will be an action-packed adventure across a 1960's landscape.
The novel version of the first movie from Electric Druid Films, an allegorical biker movie/spaghetti western. Action, excitement, and metaphysics! Told you there wasn't anything too arty. Oh, yeah, it's told entirely in present tense.
One of the most conceptually ambitious of Dark Lord Rob's projects, this is a novel details the last performance of The Electric Druids, when their lead singer, under the influence of a powerful psychedelic, underwent a mystical experience while onstage. Told in a style I call "Joycedelic".
The Saga of Keeper is the true story of Emily Bronte's mastiff, Keeper. This was the first serialized novel(ette) that I did on-line; I liked the results so much that this whole crazy site is the result. Novella. Read it all here.
