INTRODUCTION

Since I was a kid writing out the plots of stories has been something of a hobby of mine there has never been an intension for them to be published or for them to be read by other people, it’s just been fun to create all these different types of characters, worlds and stories ranging from the emotional life of someone coping with loss and mental illness to epic journeys through the vast openness of space.

But recently I’ve toyed with an idea, back when I was a kid, apparently one thing that I had a bit of a knack for was writing short stories I remember two in particular both of them were ghost stories, one was about a man haunted by the ghost of his dead wife which was titled Eleanor and the second one was about a haunted hotel I can’t remember the name of that one, but I do remember that the teachers thought that they were good although I was about fourteen at the time so they probably had to be more positive with a child than a now fully grown adult.

A few years later I wrote another short story for a competition for SFX Magazine titled Wendigo which was about a small town which had a monster lurking in the forest nearby…sadly it did not win, but at one point I came up with an idea of writing a series of short stories about giant monsters which I titled The Ember Lights but it was an idea that just faded away. However in 2017 a film director that I admire named Neil Blomkamp created a project called Oats Studios which is a series of short films to create ideas for possible bigger feature films and with watching the films of Oats Studios the fire for The Ember Lights was rekindled but now focusing on multiple genres ranging from Sci Fi, Fantasy and Horror.

So welcome to my world of magic, monsters and everything in between and beyond, I hope you enjoy the journey...now gather round the story will begin

Martyn Sudlow-McKay