About Voices in the Dark: A Flashback/Dinosaur Apocalypse Story
Join horror author Bill Link (Skin Like Tanned Leather, Six Times the Terror) as he delves into Wayne Kyle Spitzer’s post-apocalyptic Flashback universe with a tale of bad men and badder terrible lizards … and what happens when evolution takes an unexpected turn.
Beware the storm …
How did it all begin? That depends on where you were and who you ask. In some places it started with the weather—which quickly became unstable and began behaving in impossible ways. In still others it started with the lights in the sky, which shifted and pulsed and could not be explained. Elsewhere it started with the disappearances: one here, a few there, but increasing in occurrence until fully three quarters of the population had vanished. Either way, there is one thing on which everyone agrees—it didn’t take long for the prehistoric flora and fauna to start showing up (often appearing right where someone was standing, in which case the two were fused, spliced, amalgamated). It didn’t take long for the great Time-displacement called the Flashback—which was brief but had aftershocks, like an earthquake—to change the face of the earth. Nor for the stories, some long and others short, some from before the maelstrom (and resulting societal collapse) and others after, to be recorded.
It is a world in which man’s cities have become overgrown jungles and extinct animals wander the ruins. You can survive here, if you’re lucky, and if you’re not in the wrong place at the wrong time–which is everywhere, all the time. But what you’ll never do is remain the same, for this is a realm in which anything can, and will, happen. So take a deep dive into these loosely connected tales of the Dinosaur Apocalypse (each of which can be read individually or as a part of the greater saga): tales of wonder and terror, death and survival, blood and beauty. Do it today, before the apocalypse comes.
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Author Bio:
Wayne Kyle Spitzer is an American writer, illustrator, filmmaker, and founding editor of the publications Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction, Black Sheep: Unique Tales of Terror and Wonder, and Mobius Blvd. He is the author of countless books, stories, and other works, including Beyond the Black Curtain, X-Ray Rider and Other Dark Rites of Passage, Legends of the Flashback: The Finished Saga, The Devil Drives a ’66 and Other Stories, The Witch-Doctor Diaries and Other Dystopias, and The Place and Other Stories from the Region Between, as well as a film (Shadows in the Garden) and a screenplay (Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows). His work has appeared in MetaStellar—Speculative fiction and beyond, subTerrain Magazine: Strong Words for a Polite Nation and Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History, among others. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Eastern Washington University, a B.A. from Gonzaga University, and an A.A.S. from Spokane Falls Community College. His recent fiction includes The War-torn Hills of Earth and The Wine-Dark Passage. He shares a life with his sweetheart Ngoc Trinh Ho in Spokane Valley, Washington.
Bill Link is a lifelong resident of the Spokane/Spokane Valley area where most of his fiction takes place. He has published two novellas in the horror and weird fiction genre: Skin Like Tanned Leather, and At Night Outside The Window, as well as three anthologies of his short fiction, Creeping Shadows, You’re Always With Me And Other Stories, and Six Times The Terror. He lives with his wife (and best friend), their daughter, and their cat, Lovecraft.