Kirjahaku

The Story Teller is a collection of seven short stories by S. Guy Lovelace. The stories range in subject matter from re-incarnation in "Love at First Sight" to "Marmey" an allegory on the joy of life and the sadness of aging. "Blood Brothers" explores the true meaning of friendship, while "The Entrepreneur", "Harlan's Gifts" and "The Stereopticon" present radically different approaches to becoming wealthy. A "Twelve Dollar Dinner" provides comic relief, with an opportunity to chuckle at the miscues of a naive young couple on their first time in the Caribbean.

Prior to the twentieth century explanations for the many malfunctions of the human body, death, disease, insanity and misfortune were attributed to the work of daemons. From the earliest recorded history we see mankind beset by Daemons. Daemons even graced the tops of cathedrals. However, belief in the possibility of daemonic possession has waned since the advent of sophisticated medical knowledge. We are now led to believe that all types of abnormal behavior are produced and mediated solely by the brain. This conviction leaves no potential for such a phenomenon as demonic possession to exist. Nonetheless, neuroscience has not yet been able to explain all of the characteristics common to purported cases of daemonic possession "Of Daemons Possessed" is the second book in a series of three books which the author has named "The Edgar Trio". The name is to honor Edgar Allan Poe whose macabre stories of murder, premature burial, insanity and revenge terrified the author as a boy. It is six tales of individuals either possessed by daemons, or sporadically in touch with an alternate universe. The book presents stories of possession, insanity and murder. Marcus Thompson reappears from the first book "Evil in the Islands", to have further difficulties with people that no one other that he can see. The trunk that Balthazar gave to John Broadbent Stewart in a Mayan ruin in the Amazon reappears to cause murder, rape and insanity in the four stories of "The Balthazar Quartet." It is left to the readers to draw their own conclusions as to whether or not the protagonists were possessed.

For as long as I can remember my curiosity has been aroused by reports of the unusual and unexplainable. Religious texts and artifacts depicting various types of flying machines, pyramids and massive stone structures are explained away by the use of thousands of slaves hauling massive blocks of stone up one half mile long ramps. They are stones that were quarried using impossibly primitive tools to tolerances that could not be duplicated today. Ancient drawings and carvings of flying machines are described as inept pictures of birds. And what of enormous drawings visible only from the air created well before the time Christ? Or how is it possible that the frozen remains of a mammoth could be found in the Arctic with the undigested remains of its last meal still in its stomach. Precious Serpent is a fictional story of the life of the High Priest, L n of a long forgotten religion. He accidentally stumbles upon an a thousand year old underground library with books written in an unknown tongue. Laborious translation reveals that everything he has been taught including his beliefs in a pantheon of gods are false. His society both political and religious is totally corrupt. He embarks upon a disastrous program of reform that breeds chaos and catastrophe wherever he turns. He is saved from execution by the husband of his lover. In exchange for his life L n flees, promising never to return. He leaves behind the woman who is the enduring love of his life. Arriving upon what is today known as the Yucatan; L n is welcomed as the God Quetzalcoatl, the Precious Serpent. Over a period of thirty years L n creates a great society that we today know as the Mayan's golden age of Anahauc. After 30 years he longs to return to his roots and the woman he still loves. Prior to his departure he warns that he will come back to severely punish any of the people who might stray from his teachings. This warning paved the way for Cortez's impossible defeat of the powerful Aztec empire. On his return L n discovers that the revolution he incited has destroyed the country of his birth and its inhabitants. He learns that the woman he loves escaped to Egypt where she introduced Lan's concept of one God to the Pharaoh. The Pharaoh embraces the concept of one God and commences the reform the religion of that country. History of the Pharaoh Akhenaton relates those disastrous results. The book combines known historical fact with the fictional journey through Lan's life It is a journey upon which the answers too many of history's unusual and unexplainable mysteries are viewed in a new light.

More Dan Dougherty mysteries is the second book in the Dan Dougherty series. Dan Dougherty has been given up for dead, but his associate on the Syracuse NY police force, Mary Casey, refuses to give up the search. She finds him a prisoner in a volcanic crater in the Sudan. She rescues Dougherty and his Guide Munir Malif and brings them back to the US where Dougherty and Casey form a detective agency in West Palm Beach Florida. The author, tired of murder and mayhem has created stories that leave the reader feeling good after reading them.