A Black Metal Ghost Story: A Novella - Paperback

by Bill Dean (Illustrator), James McLachlan (Author)

A disturbed music writer sets out to find an elusive black metal musician who has been missing for the past ten years. His inquiries lead him to a tiny town deep in Tasmania's isolated south-west, but there appears to be no trace of the musician. Slowly he comes to realise the town is in the grip of a malignant entity, forcing the people into a fearful conspiracy of silence.Despite terrifying and inexplicable confrontations with the unknown, the writer continues his search, helpless in the face of a compulsion to discover the fate of the mysterious cult musician.A Black Metal Ghost Story is inspired by the atmospheric music of Striborg.

Author Biography

James McLachlan is arguably one of Tasmania's best loved writers of fiction. Starting out as editor of the cult goth zine The Fall of Because, he has contributed articles and short stories to many publications throughout Australia. A Black Metal Ghost Story is his third published novel. His other titles include: The Satanist, and Burnie to Northcote on Five Billion a Day.