The Encampment By The Gorge & Blood Memory
(2019)(Book 30 in the Short Sharp Shocks! series)
A collection of stories by Zachary Ashford
The Encampment By The Gorge: After a guard dog is savagely butchered and their friend is murdered, four men embark on what they think will be a revenge mission into the depths of an illegal commune. Instead, they find themselves under a sky that shouldn't be and come face to face with gruesome monsters that challenge their hold on reality.
Blood Memory: When a series of brutal crocodile attacks sends shock-waves through an Indigenous community, rumours of an evil spirit abound. Jones, an investigative journalist, discovers the dark truth when he confronts a hostile park ranger and discovers the old ways are not as forgotten as he would like to think.
Writing about both The Encampment By The Gorge and Blood Memory, author Zachary Ashford said: “I love coming up with ideas and feeling as if I can use them as metaphor or message. There’s nothing as rewarding as looking at something you’ve created and going, ‘Yeah, that’s good’. With The Encampment By The Gorge, I let a linear thematic story grow into something I’m confident saying is visceral and intense when I focussed on telling a relentless cosmic horror and then with Blood Memory, I wanted to build some ‘monster as metaphor’ commentary on some pretty disgraceful [Australian] Government policy decisions at the time.”
(Cover by Adrian Baldwin)
Genre: Horror
Blood Memory: When a series of brutal crocodile attacks sends shock-waves through an Indigenous community, rumours of an evil spirit abound. Jones, an investigative journalist, discovers the dark truth when he confronts a hostile park ranger and discovers the old ways are not as forgotten as he would like to think.
Writing about both The Encampment By The Gorge and Blood Memory, author Zachary Ashford said: “I love coming up with ideas and feeling as if I can use them as metaphor or message. There’s nothing as rewarding as looking at something you’ve created and going, ‘Yeah, that’s good’. With The Encampment By The Gorge, I let a linear thematic story grow into something I’m confident saying is visceral and intense when I focussed on telling a relentless cosmic horror and then with Blood Memory, I wanted to build some ‘monster as metaphor’ commentary on some pretty disgraceful [Australian] Government policy decisions at the time.”
(Cover by Adrian Baldwin)
Genre: Horror
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