Newly famous Mary Shelley and her husband Percy, touring the Italian peninsula following the publication of FRANKENSTEIN, visit the home of the late Dr. Luigi Galvani, the brilliant scientist who inspired her novel… and come away with a most unusual pet.
A short humor story in The Light Fantastic 2..
INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR
Q - What is The Light Fantastic 2?
A - In The Light Fantastic 2: Amazing Pets, ten authors unite to bring laughter, chuckles, giggles, guffaws, and amusement to the masses amidst speculative twists and turns. Literary comedic geniuses like Kurt Vonnegut, Jonathan Swift, Helen Fielding, Terry Pratchett, Gail Carriger, Mark Twain, and Oscar Wilde inspired the authors of the Alvarium Experiment in their quest for gold, exploring every facet from dark humor to slapstick, deadpan to satire, dry humor to parody, and anything else we might consider a tickler of funny bones. The stories fall into fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres, but they do get up again and brush themselves off. This is the seventh project by the Alvarium Experiment, a consortium of accomplished and award-winning authors.
Q - Where should a reader start when selecting a short story to read in The Light Fantastic 2?
A - Each story is self-contained and can be read in any order. The reader is free to select any of the stories at random to begin their experience. The book description will explain the premise for each particular story.
About the Author
KEN PELHAM has won eleven Royal Palm Literary Awards for both fiction and nonfiction. A member of International Thriller Writers, his novels Brigands Key and Place of Fear both won first-place RPLAs. His nonfiction book, Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A Writer’s Guide to Mastering Viewpoint,was named Royal Palm 2015 Published Book of the Year, and his book exploring the evolution of genre fiction, Gumshoes, Fangs, Rockets, & Spies, won the 2021 RPLA Gold for History.
Fans of Sherlock Holmes, check out the thrilling novelette, The Riddle of the Forgeries.
More genre-bending short stories are collected in Borderlands: Tales of Mystery & Imagination .
Visit Ken at www.kenpelham.com for updates, links to purchase publications, and info about upcoming appearances.
Genre: Science Fiction
A short humor story in The Light Fantastic 2..
INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR
Q - What is The Light Fantastic 2?
A - In The Light Fantastic 2: Amazing Pets, ten authors unite to bring laughter, chuckles, giggles, guffaws, and amusement to the masses amidst speculative twists and turns. Literary comedic geniuses like Kurt Vonnegut, Jonathan Swift, Helen Fielding, Terry Pratchett, Gail Carriger, Mark Twain, and Oscar Wilde inspired the authors of the Alvarium Experiment in their quest for gold, exploring every facet from dark humor to slapstick, deadpan to satire, dry humor to parody, and anything else we might consider a tickler of funny bones. The stories fall into fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres, but they do get up again and brush themselves off. This is the seventh project by the Alvarium Experiment, a consortium of accomplished and award-winning authors.
Q - Where should a reader start when selecting a short story to read in The Light Fantastic 2?
A - Each story is self-contained and can be read in any order. The reader is free to select any of the stories at random to begin their experience. The book description will explain the premise for each particular story.
About the Author
KEN PELHAM has won eleven Royal Palm Literary Awards for both fiction and nonfiction. A member of International Thriller Writers, his novels Brigands Key and Place of Fear both won first-place RPLAs. His nonfiction book, Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A Writer’s Guide to Mastering Viewpoint,was named Royal Palm 2015 Published Book of the Year, and his book exploring the evolution of genre fiction, Gumshoes, Fangs, Rockets, & Spies, won the 2021 RPLA Gold for History.
Fans of Sherlock Holmes, check out the thrilling novelette, The Riddle of the Forgeries.
More genre-bending short stories are collected in Borderlands: Tales of Mystery & Imagination .
Visit Ken at www.kenpelham.com for updates, links to purchase publications, and info about upcoming appearances.
Genre: Science Fiction
Used availability for Ken Pelham's Mary Shelley's Nasty Cat