The Violet Furnace
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Something has oozed out from the vents atop the roof of the multi-story high rise Cooper Center Hospital, foaming and rolling, and when helicopter pilot Bobbi attempts to land upon that very roof with her paramedic and physician assistant they could tell as soon as they landed that the only way to escape was to enter the building and find their ways down.... mere steps ahead of an ever-spreading poisonous mat of rapidly-evolving purple fungus. Floor by floor as they descend, they encounter horrors which defy logic and fight to survive....
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Edward Martin III's short fiction has appeared in a few anthologies over the past years including Gears and Levers, Stomping Ground, Broken Worlds, and many others. Edward is not only a writer but a director, and those works include Cult of the Giant Brain (2008) and It's a Terrible Life (2010) and in particular the animated feature film The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. He is also the mastermind behind Hellbender Media: Headquartered in the Pacific Northwest, Hellbender Media specializes in movies, books, games, and other media that embraces the strange, the peculiar, the weird, or might simply be a little off the beaten track. You can find Edward Martin III at hellbendermedia.com. The Blood-Red Night of Hatchet valley is his first traditionally published full-length novel.
