The Ember Lights

And with that my firelight wanderers the stories that started this blog and that are in the upcoming book have now been erased from the page completely and will now only be available in the book itself. It felt weird to do it but this is a new direction and now makes the feeling of the book coming out all the more real. Now like I said in the last announcement not everything is gone R'LYEH my Lovecraft Sci-Fi Horror is still available, along my random project Karnak: Neon Talon and temporarily The Fractured King Part One (getting back into finishing the complete Titan collection for a spin off book) This is a fresh new start for the Ember Lights so lets reboot the system and start again with new worlds to explore and stories to tell, so stay tuned! Martyn

 Well damn I didn't think I see this page again, it's been a really long time well over 2 years but as I've said on other platforms, over that time a lot has happened of having to move home from England to Scotland, then having a little bit of a mental health break whilst up there and whilst doing that I found a reignited love for drawing which I've not done for a while so that has taken up a lot of my time. Then the kick of the nuts of being in Scotland for two years my husband lost his job and we couldn't live on my salary so we both had to leave Scotland and our currently living together with my parents at their house back in England. So I've been struggling mentally with my creative drive hitting an all time low because I have no space to just go and be creative, but I'm at a point where I'm trying to pick myself back up and to get my shit together. Which is why I'm back here, I've put it off long enough but now it's time because my book ...

Hey Firelight Wanderers   Just a bit of an update haven’t been in the mood to write at the moment with work, increase in rent and bills, and all the shit that’s a been happening in the world my mental health took a right kick in the nuts a few weeks ago. However I’ve taken some time to refresh myself avoid the doom scrolling on Twitter and finally dusted of the keyboard of my laptop and ready to get back to it.

 Dear Firelight Wanderers Just wanted to say I hope that everyone has a great as possible festive period, the pandemic seems like its never ending but don't let it take from the love from friends and family and the festive cheer that comes with it. So from me at The Ember Lights Camp Fire I want to say have a Merry Christmas or a Happy Winter Holiday and let's hope the New Year brings some better positivity.

PART ONE: The Devil’s Mirror   “DESTRUCTION COMETH; AND THEY SHALL SEEK PEACE, AND THERE SHALL BE NONE” Ezekiel 7:25-27   Halcyon Base Serbia MFD Team Members - Karl Walker: Team Leader             - Alice Neeman: Pilot and Engineer - Brian Carson: Combat Tactician   - Ishiro Takarada: Combat / Science - Katherine Petrov: Tech Expert      - Klaus Emmerich: Physicist   Rain fell heavily as a blanket of moody grey clouds covered the vast mountain ranges in the wilderness of Eastern Serbia. One of the MFD’s tilt rotor helicopters shuddered against the winds but Neeman and her co-pilot a young woman named Maria Valkova had it under control she looked back into the passenger bay “We’re almost there so we won’t have to deal with this weather for much longer” Walker shot her a thumbs up, she turned back at looked to Valkova who responded “Wherever it is that we are ...

 Hey Firelight Wanderers It's been a while since I've posted on this blog, I've been keeping up with some activity on The Ember Lights twitter but the reason behind this long, very long break was that I went through an emotional moment were my motivation to write pretty much stopped. Over the lockdown I thought to myself that I have been pushing myself too far, when I released some of my stories in such short timeframes because I did them in bulk before creating The Ember Lights and I was worried about losing that momentum. So I forced myself to try and put a new story every month or so and it became too much when I ended up with no new ideas and a set deadline. Other things occurred with this blog were I was getting moments thinking what the hell is the point of carry on with all this, I won't go into the details of what caused me to feel this way but it has come up a few times since starting this blog were I've felt worthless, I even now years later still can'...

With R'LYEH finally completed I wanted to write a personal post about how this came to be. This story of eldritch horror and madness is dedicated to my sister STEVIE , as kids we were explored many horror based films even if we hadn't reached the correct film rating just yet. I think I was about 9 or 10 when mum introduced me to the movies like Predator and Aliens , sex was no no but spines being ripped out of a man's back was totally fine, our dad introduced us to things more of the spooky nature like The Haunting , Whistle and I'll Come to You , The Woman in Black . Over decades my sister and I have wandered through the dark corridors of horror including sneaking me in to see Blade II when I was not 18 but my big sister managed to sneak me in with a denim jacket if I recall to make me look older, we've been expanding our library of our favourite movie that have creeped us out ranging from John Carpenter's The Fog all the way to James Wan's The Conjuring...

  The blackness began to fade as Kara began opening her eyes, she woke to see that she was still in the processing plant, clambering to her feet she looked up to the impaled monstrous form that originally was Blackman, it was dead, at least she thought it was that woman or what looked like a woman in her dream said she that the body would fade away to be reborn, so it had to be dead in some form. Her body ached all over but she was glad that it was over, the sound of familiar voices could be heard “KARA!” Kay ran towards her and they hugged even though it hurt Kara welcomed it happily “Good to see that you two are ok” Kara saw Paulson slowly approached he had a few cuts and scrapes from broken glass he smiled at Kara “You alright O-SEC?” Kara nodded “Sore but I’ll live” Kay stared at the corpse of Nyarlathotep “When it grabbed you we thought it had you, what happened?” Kara came and stood next to Kay looking up at the impaled eldritch horror “I’m not sure it felt like a dream but I...

  Author's Note: I just wanted to say for this chapter there is a character here that is based on from a Lovecraftian graphic novel series by Michael Alan Nelson called 'The Fall of Cthulhu' is a great comic series so I highly recommend it. In his story is a character who lives in the dreamlands known as 'The Harlot' she is not a creation of Lovecraft but a creation of Nelson's and she is a brilliant character, she's complex in that she doesn't have a goal for either the humans or the old ones, the goal must suit her and will help people out in need but it always comes with some sort of price something either physical or emotional. With loving this character so much I wanted to put the Harlot in my story but obviously without infringing on copy right the character that I have put in this chapter is a homage to Nelson's but with some changes of my own, I just felt that this character in what ever form needed to be recognised esp...