Eidolon by Joshua Skye

Eidolon by Joshua Skye is now available in e-book format!

Boyishly attractive actor Caesin Faulkner has been cast in a sexually explicit but artistically progressive play at The Ivory Gates Theatre. Under the almost tyrannical eye of the director, Caesin struggles with the emotional intensity of the play and its other, more physical, demands. Combined with his off-stage problems, an abusive ex-boyfriend who refuses to go away and chronic insomnia, his life seems to be going on a downward spiral. But things begin to look up, when he meets a handsome young man named Sebastian.

Sebastian is romantic, kind, intelligent, and opinionated. Though Caesin doesn’t always agree with Sebastian’s philosophies, he can’t help but find the intellect behind the ideas as attractive as the man himself. Romance between them blossoms, but as they grow more fond of one another, Caesin’s struggles seem at odds with his newfound happiness. His sleeping disorder continues, and his tense relationship with his director worsens, the play itself tainting his life. Then there is his ex, a persistent and aggressive man whose jealousies begin to show in ever more violent ways.

The lines between his life and the play begin to blur, and something is reaching through the dreary state he’s found himself in to distort reality even further. Caesin becomes submerged in a haunting apprehension that maybe the two worlds he lives in were never separate to begin with. Maybe everything happens for a reason, a reason that could tear the fabric of his reality to shreds.

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The Goat Man's Gift by Joshua Skye

The Goat Man's Gift by Joshua Skye is now available in e-book format!

Benjamin lives a quiet life in a small Pennsylvania town, but he dreams of a larger world beyond the family homestead, of beautiful cities and sophisticated people. He longs to be in the Big Apple among its urbane residents. But the distant cities pictured in magazines seem an impossibility, so he fantasizes about the local legends instead. His favorite story is of The Goat Man and the gift he bestows upon the luckiest of believers.

But The Goat Man is no mere legend. He is very real, a lingering presence ever watchful from the darkness. The time comes when he answers the young man’s prayers and visits Benjamin in the depths of night.

With Benjamin’s magical gift comes dreadful consequences. Sacrifices must be made and unspoken promises kept. Shambling shapes in the shadows beckon Benjamin to a horrific, inescapable fate.

From the haunted corridors of an underground realm to the dangerous allure of New York City, Joshua Skye’s twisted new tale is a dizzying frenzy of nightmarish horrors and titillating sexual desires. Experience the fear, the erotica, and the untold terrors of The Goat Man’s Gift.

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The Calming Ones by Joshua Skye

The Calming Ones by Joshua Skye is now available in e-book format!

Brandy is new in town. With no friends or close family, she feels lonely and vulnerable in the big city. Unaccompanied, she goes to a clinic for a well woman’s exam and finds herself in the middle of a battleground between philosophical opponents.

Violent protests set the world ablaze -- the clinic is on fire and bombs explode all around her. She is brutally attacked by a deliriously infuriated ideologue, during which she glimpses figures calmly walking through the smoke and the chaos, figures reaching out and touching those around them.

Saved from the pandemonium by a man she doesn't know, Brandy wakes in the hospital and comes face to face with her savior. Why did he rescue her? Brandy isn't sure she wants to find out ...

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In Her Flesh by Joshua Skye

In Her Flesh by Joshua Skye is now available in e-book format!

Teenage sweethearts Alisa and Amy celebrate their engagement with a night out at a favorite restaurant. Their happiness, however, is short lived.

On their way home a flat tire leaves them stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city. From the darkness a nightmarish fiend emerges and turns their night of merriment into a fight for their lives.

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Marvelous Mayhem by Joshua Skye

Marvelous Mayhem by Joshua Skye is now available in e-book format!

Timothy is the son of an abusive con man turned carny. He never quite fit in with his folks, having no predilection toward the family’s popular acrobatic act. But he has talents all his own. He’s the most successful personal entertainer in Mr. Mormon’s Marvelous World of Mayhem Circus and Sideshow.

In an America decimated by the Great Depression, the traveling extravaganza is a World of Wonders and a home to outcasts like Mystical Minerva, Towering Tony, Daring Danny, and Timothy’s very best friend, Morgan the Mouse Boy.

The summer of 1933 marks a change in Timothy. He plans to break free from his abusive family and fall in love. Step right up ladies and gentleman, boys and girls. Welcome to Mr. Mormon’s Marvelous World of Mayhem. The show is just about to begin.

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My Fairy Tale by Joshua Skye

My Fairy Tale by Joshua Skye is now available in e-book format!

Tommy pretends he is a princess. New York City is his Kingdom by the Sea, and the building he lives in is his castle. There are dangers galore, like the goblins warring on the first floor. His toy unicorns are his friends, a stuffed panda his custodian. And Ronald Reagan is a prisoner in the depths of the castle, allowed to eat only ketchup sandwiches, a fitting punishment for his crimes. Tommy is hopelessly in love with Handsome Prince Johnny, who fled from the faraway kingdom of New Jersey to mingle with the other aristocrats down on the street, the bright stream of life flowing past Tommy's windows.

Tommy’s vivid imagination helps him deal with a world at odds with everything about him. He’s a boy who likes to dress in girls’ clothes and wear make-up. He is a boy who has a crush on another boy. Reality and pop culture merges in this flight of fantasy, a contemporary fable for every boy who dreams of being a princess and one day queen of his own realm.

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The Theft of Dorian Gray by Joshua Skye

The Theft of Dorian Gray by Joshua Skye is now available in e-book format!

In an alternative Victorian London Oscar Wilde, the famous journalist, is given an overdose of absinthe while visiting his favorite brothel. Addled by the drug, he watches helplessly as Frederick the Swede steals his precious Writer's Tackle. Disaster! The device contains the draft of his latest masterpiece, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and now it's gone into the stinking alleys of Whitechapel.

His search is almost derailed by the gorgeous rentboy Basil, but their erotic tryst is interrupted by Westborough, a magistrate determined to catch Oscar Wilde in the act and lock him up. Basil and Wilde flee, and with the help of Wilde's old friend Lord Homeward, they manage to outwit the mad magistrate.

But what of the precious manuscript? When Basil sees a picture of Frederick, he recognises the man. But his name isn't Frederick. It's Dorian Gray.

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Jordan's Folly by Joshua Skye

Jordan's Folly by Joshua Skye is now available in e-book format!

Jordan isn't having a good evening.

For starters, there's a terrible storm raging outside. Then, the prank he played on his his mother backfired spectacularly. Now she's dead.

All alone in the house, young Jordan knows something terrible is after him. This chilling tale pokes gleefully at one of our most primal fears -- things with too many legs. Not for the faint of heart!

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Walls of White by Joshua Skye

Walls of White by Joshua Skye is now available in e-book format!

Chris frees himself from the suffocating world of his parents’ home and moves into his dream apartment in an old part of town. But strange things begin to happen. There is a presence in his new place that whispers his name. It plays tricks, like hiding his car keys in odd places. It stalks him wherever he goes. And it is jealous.

When Chris takes a lover, the situation escalates alarmingly. Is Chris insane? He doesn't think so, but can he discover what -- or who -- is haunting him?

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Shirley by Joshua Skye

Shirley by Joshua Skye is now available in e-book format!

When he was seven, they fled the cramped city and moved to the spaciousness of his gramma's place. From the big old crab-apple tree, he could see the path winding away into the deep woods, over the little creek, and further away to the secret old junkyard where he met Shirley.

Who needed family when he had such a neat best friend?

She was the voice in his mind, showing him things, guarding him. While he was a child, they played together in the junkyard. By the time he was fourteen, it was time to see her true form.

But did Shirley really have his best interests at heart?

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Matilda & Dusti by Joshua Skye

Matilda & Dusti by Joshua Skye is now available in e-book format!

As a teenager, Matilda lost her eyesight. Since then, her best friend has been her service dog, Dusti, and they share a special bond. They can literally talk to each other.

But her psychic abilities don’t stop there. She can talk to the dead, as well, and Matilda has capitalized on her talents by becoming a spiritual advisor.

Among her clients is a fearful conspiracy theorist named Michael, who claims to have stumbled upon a terrifying secret. When he uncovers a secret society and corrupt cops who will stop at nothing to keep him quiet, he turns to Matilda for help. As she and Dusti are drawn into the web of deceit, they find themselves targets of a deadly cover-up.

Matilda & Dusti is a quirky, fast-paced little thriller from the author of The Singing Wind and The Argento.

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The Dallamano by Joshua Skye

The Dallamano by Joshua Skye is now available in e-book format!

Designed by cult architect Giuseppe Soavi, the mastermind behind Manhattan’s The Argento, The Dallamano is an intimate West Hollywood courtyard where the elites of the movie business once carried on their secret affairs. The complex is now managed by Jeanne Curtis, a lonely middle-aged woman content in the dreary life she’s made with her cats and late-night television.

But her dull life changes when former beauty queen Dorothy Creek movies in. Passions stir in Jeanne and the ghosts of The Dallamano awaken.

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Joshua Skye on The Argento

Guest post by Joshua Skye

I’ve always been a fan of horror cinema, specifically the more surreal compositions. No one seems to do surreal horror quite like our Italian auteurs. There’s an amazing variety of bizarre films to choose from, and without any doubt the triumphant king of Italian mayhem is Dario Argento. My novel The Argento is a love letter to him.

Although there are clever nods to the master’s films (Suspiria, specifically), The Argento is a wholly original nightmare. Woven in a modern setting, and anchored by a contemporary “damsel in distress.” My goal was to create a relentless decent into hardcore horror. Once it gets going it doesn’t let up! I love to conjure deeply disturbing scenes while granting them an air of the fantastic, flares of fright and fantasy intertwined. And I tried to infuse it all with a distinct 70’s or early 80’s horror vibe. This is an old fashioned hell ride, but with modern little twists.

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The Argento by Joshua Skye

The Argento by Joshua Skye is now available in e-book format!

Beautiful transgendered Camilla Nicolodi has a lifelong obsession with eccentric Italian architect Giuseppe Soavi. Since childhood, she fantasized about the man and his work, dreaming she would meet, fall in love, and marry him one day. But the naïveté of youth fades into an adult desire to own a piece of his legacy. As his work was few and far between, most of it long left to ruin, she finds her wish in an old, rundown slum in New York.

Considered Soavi’s masterpiece, the Argento is a twenty-story residential building hidden in bustling, modern-day Manhattan. Neglected for decades, it’s now home to a festering community of indigents betrayed by contemporary culture to seek pleasures in otherworldly activities. They’ve turned rooms into gruesome shrines to a dark and monstrous entity.

Camilla vows to return the Argento to its original splendor. Spurred by her passion for Soavi and a budding camaraderie with her lawyer, Camilla undertakes the intimidating mission of bringing the Argento back to life.

But dark things fester in the shadowy halls and gloomy rooms, an ancient evil has taken up residence in the building, and it has no intention of being driven out. Cruel, devious, and perverse, the demon seduces trespassers, becoming all they desire and all they fear. The beast’s evil malevolence knows no limit, and it will stop at nothing to take back what it calls its own.

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The Sinkhole by Joshua Skye

The Sinkhole by Joshua Skye is now available in e-book format!

Beatty Field used to be a strawberry farm, but after a storm, it collapsed into a massive sinkhole. It's become a place where young people swim and make out, and dream of getting away from Wren Township. But I never got away -- I married Iris and was content. Then Iris drowned in that sinkhole, and I was left with alone with our ten-year-old daughter, Sylvia.

As time passed, dangerous crossbred snakes filled the deep water, and Sylvia withdrew more and more from me. We seemed to have nothing to say to one another ... until the night we crashed our car in the sinkhole.

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Joshua Skye on The Singing Wind

The Singing Wind was a novel nearly a decade in the making. The first draft took a long five years to write and clocked in at over 500 pages long. Containing lengthy chapters detailing hallucinations, the magical aspects of time travel mixed with scientific theory, and a host of other arcane and cryptic ponderings, it was so bizarre and esoteric that people didn’t understand it at all. From that epic tome I created The Singing Wind, which took another three years of research and work.

The title of the story comes from the character of Grandmother Singing Wind, a creation inspired by a real-life Native American shaman I met. Many of our discussions found their way into my novel; some of her stories gave credence to various aspects of my plot in a fascinatingly cathartic way. The shapeshifters of my story have a curious genesis in Native American folklore that I hadn’t known before meeting her. She is a remarkable woman. I learned much from her.

The Singing Wind was chosen as a 2012 selection for Dark Media City’s Dark Book Club and the response has been phenomenal. I couldn’t be happier with the complimentary feedback. I’m thrilled people are reading and enjoying my novel. A lot of work went into it so it means a great deal to me.

The Piper and the Paladin by Joshua Skye

TITLE: The Piper and the Paladin
AUTHOR: Joshua Skye

GENRE: Erotica • Fantasy • Fiction • Gay
LENGTH: 4,423 words
PRICE: $1.99

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Young and seductive Maurice is on the streets of a dangerous city as a cold December night closes in. Then he's picked up by the solitary, older Frederick for in an intensely erotic encounter in Frederick's labyrinthine home. While Frederick sleeps, Maurice explores the sinister house, and makes a startling discovery in the bedroom.

When Frederick catches Maurice snooping, survival depends on who seduces whom in this unique take on the superhero tale that is dark, sinister, and extremely erotic.

Opening Doors by Joshua Skye

TITLE: Opening Doors
AUTHOR: Joshua Skye

GENRE: Adult Humor • Contemporary • Erotic • Fiction • Gay
LENGTH: 12,969 words
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While preparing for the annual scouting jamboree, a good-looking and lovable goofball makes an appointment to get the required physical. But instead of going to his family physician, he goes to see a new doctor.

After a series of humorous and sexy examinations, he leaves with a whole new outlook on life.

A Shade of Death by Joseph Skye

TITLE: A Shade of Death
AUTHOR: Joshua Skye

GENRE: Contemporary • Fiction • Gay • Paranormal • Young Adult
LENGTH: 5,024 words
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Little Timmy likes the night. He likes to roam its shadowy world and spy on his neighbors, play secret games, and dream of being a contestant on American Idol.

But one dreary evening he comes face-to-face with the most frightening and fascinating creature of all, an imposing being with a dread purpose. Death has come for a visit and nothing will ever be the same.