Macabre Multiverse
Published on 26. October 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
106 pages
978-1-917603-10-2 (ISBN)
Description
In some dark corner of the universe, eight human brains are salvaged from the ruins of a broken starship, their last memories absorbed into a vast alien intellect. In their final moments, these humans were dreaming.
Five of them were imagining new Science Fiction Horror stories, two of them were creating art, and one of them was somehow astral projecting, nudging each of these twisted visions toward a shared goal.
The result of this merging of human minds is Macabre Multiverse - and the aliens who salvaged those brains were kind enough to compile what they found within and send it hurtling back through time and space. So here it is, our reports on the fraying edges of reality and probability, an anthology of five new Science Fiction Horrors, illustrated by two artists, and polished by a sixth writer who ensured each and every story was as shiny, sharp, and twisted as it could be.Welcome to the Macabre Multiverse.
Stories by Phillip Carter, John Coon, Aaron Frale, Mark Gardner, Seb D Law.
Cover art by Jon Cellini.
Chapter art by Marco Medina.
Editing by BK NTouris.
Published by Halfplanet Press.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
145 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-917603-10-2 (9781917603102)
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Persons
Comedian, Author, Poet, Artist, and Bigfoot lookalike, Phillip Carter is a multifaceted storyteller whose stories breathe new life into everything from time travel and alien encounters, to nights out and crystal shopping.
His writing is multidisciplinary, bringing a poetic voice to Science Fiction, a comedic edge to poetry, and a bit of everything to his best stories. This multifaceted approach makes his stories accessible and unique, providing many layers of storytelling for you to glide over or explore, depending on how you are feeling.
Bragging
Phillip won the Rhiannon Evans scholarship in 2015 for excellence in Creative Writing - for a darkly comedic sci-fi poem about mosquitoes which was actually about relationship woes.
Since then he has appeared briefly in Channel 4s Lego Masters, judged a short story competition at the Edinburgh Literature Festival, told jokes about time travel at Bright Club, told jokes about marriage and religion at Wise Guys in Utah, set up his own comedy shirt company, and befriended the local pigeons. At the time of writing, he can fit 42 Lego figures in his beard.
Phillip's meandering path to world domination
Phillip's goal as a comedian is to get on various television panel shows and say clever, silly things. His goal as an author is to give people new universes to explore. His goal as a human being is to go back in time to upsell new types of fire to cave people. "Fire 2.0" will replace regular fire simply because it offers a sleeker design and alternating flame colours. The cave people do not need to know about the dangerous, hallucinogenic gases which make those colours possible. It's fine if they hallucinate a little bit, they'll only dream of harmless things like reading author bios.
Other books / Gigs
Phillip has not just written this book. He has written more of the things. Some of them are bigger. Some of them are smaller. All of them are weird. Go now, seek them out, they are waiting to be discovered.
( if you want some help finding more stuff by Phillip, try searching up Linktr.ee/phillipcarter)