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JUNE, 1966. OXFORD, ENGLAND: Robert Fitch and Toby Chalmers are two obscure professors defending an unorthodox theory...Both men believe that, thousands of years before what we have been told was the start of human history, there were other cultures - powerful, strange cultures -- that traded and communicated around the globe. When peers bother to acknowledge the two men, their views are met with scorn and derision, their names mentioned to the accompaniment of chuckles and jabs... But that is about to change. The academics have come into possession of a relic that predates Dynastic China by thousands of years. This ancient, strangely marked brick could be the only surviving piece of a giant barrier dubbed "The Wall Before the Wall", and it very well could vindicate them both... But as they try to cross the border into the totalitarian nation to prove their theory, Fitch and Chalmers might wish they had stayed in Oxford... Because it's possible the Wall was built to keep out something very, very malevolent... Something that has been waiting... for them. "Wall" is a supernatural adventure story based on some of the most controversial, cutting-edge archaeological ideas of our time. In it, Gardner Goldsmith takes us to an era when customs and idioms of the British Empire were still extant, when crossing from West to East could mean your life, and when the appearance of a new archaeological discovery could upend the academic world. Accompanied by "Assassin", the prequel short story about that ancient structure, the pair of tales represent a significant link to the larger schema of Goldsmith's cosmic psychological fiction. Critical praise from the world of literature... "Gard Goldsmith's prose is like the edge of a knife Definitely a writer to watch." - Stoker Award Winner Brian Keene, Author of "The Rising". "Gardner Goldsmith is a force of nature, no less so his writing." - British Fantasy Award Winner Guy Adams, Author of "The World House". See why Goldsmith's writing was selected by Ginger Nuts of Horror to be placed in their category of "Best Novellas for 2013"... "WALL" is the second piece of his grand Brotherhood of Other Cycle.

Take a tour of unseen Vegas -- the dirty underworld only the dead can see... What would you do if your career began with promise, if your plans for life seemed well on their way, but, due to your own mistakes, the bottom suddenly dropped out? What if that clean, prosperous, happy family life was lost, and you were left to slide deeper and deeper into the "underground", each strange job more obscure and bizarre than the next? Where would you land? How long could you stomach that world? Could you do the kind of job that others fear or don't believe exists? Sylvester Cole can. He has for too many years, and now he wants out. Long ago on track to become a literature professor, Sylv made one big mistake, and he's paid for it since. Maybe he's made himself pay. He's not exactly sure. But one thing is certain, now in his mid-fifties, he's had enough. He's saved up his cash and gold. He's bought a plane ticket out of Vegas, and he's ready to retire. Sylvester Cole wants one chance at life. Because Sylvester Cole is sick of re-killing the dead. But when Sylv wanders into his favorite watering hole to say goodbye to his friends of convenience, he's confronted with an opportunity of a different sort: a girl, who just might give him that chance to snatch life and love out of the hands of fate - by re-killing one last time. "Bite" is a noir novella that brings you back to what horror is all about: emotional, psychological, spiritual stakes. Its voice is real, and its action is aggressive. __________ Get "Bite" and see why popular UK genre site GingerNutsofHorror just picked it as one of the SEVEN BEST NOVELLAS OF 2013 _______ Bram Stoker Award winner F. PAUL WILSON describes Goldsmith's debut, BITE, as: "An action-packed collision of horror and noir " --- Stoker winner and graphic novelist BRIAN KEENE writes: "Gard Goldsmith's prose is like the edge of a knife. Definitely a writer to watch." ---- British Fantasy Award winner, MARK MORRIS calls BITE: "A cracking story which tears along at 100 miles an hour." - Stoker and British Fantasy Award winner CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN writes that BITE is: "A hard-boiled horror story, as if Sam Spade had turned vampire hunter." - Stoker winner and best-selling author THOMAS F. MONTELEONE says: "Goldsmith writes lines of prose as lean as he is; and he dares to employ familiar horror tropes in ways that are totally original." And best-selling author GUY ADAMS writes: "Gardner Goldsmith is a force of nature, no less so his writing. When BITE bares its teeth you catch a whiff of bourbon and cigarette smoke and then it's all about the jugular. A wonderful evocation of pulp thrills."

Now... A sociopathic murderer escapes from a prison transport vehicle in early 'Seventies Massachusetts, intent on finding a teenage girl in distant Vermont. Then... Two schoolgirls run away to a 'Sixties hippie commune on a farm west of Boston. There, they believe they will discover the freedom and love they've been lacking. None of them will find precisely what they seek. "Fishing" is Gardner Goldsmith at his fist-clenching best, weaving brutal, honest psychological realism with transcendental surrealism to offer a Minotaur's Maze of a plot. It turns unexpectedly, at locomotive speed, and when you turn the final page... You will feel it for the rest of your life. Read "Fishing" and see why noted authors such as Brian Keene, Thomas Monteleone, Christopher Golden, Mark Morris, Guy Adams, and F. Paul Wilson have sung his praises. See why his debut novella, "BITE", was selected by Gingernuts of Horror as one of the top releases of 2013, and see how "Fishing" weaves into Goldsmith's compelling, commanding mosaic of psychological cosmic terror.