Earthling's Halloween Book Reviewed

 

 MIDAS by Tyler Jones, Earthling Publications, Limited signed edition, $60, ISBN:9781736928479.

I'm sure that the title might give you an idea about the subject matter of this years addition to the annual Halloween volume from Earthling Publications. It is always a welcomed addition to the season and one I look forward to every year.

This one is a bit different in that it is a western themed story about the search for the cause of the Midas touch and the cost you have to pay to possess it.

Jeremiah Pevensie, a former preacher, and his wife are suffering the loss of their young son when a dead man and his brother arrive at their farm.The dead man has a map that leads to an impossible location and promises great riches.

Solomon and his group of followers are also seeking for the map and will not let anything get in his way to find it.

After Jeremiah returns from his journey, he begins a building project that refurbishes the town and begins a construction project on a mansion that seems to have no end.

Jeremiah is also working on a project of his own that will return his wife to her former happier self.

The story is well written and has a different take on greed and how it can come in different ways. A husbands sacrifice, a zealots plan to rule the world, and a mothers love all lead to a story of terror the likes I have never read before.

Here is another winner from Earthling and you need to get a copy before they are gone. www.earthlingpub.com

Facebook message from Mike Bishop, June 30, 2023

 

It's been a long while -- our adult daughter Stephanie informed Jeri and me recently -- more than a year, in fact, since I've posted any sort of comment on Facebook. My apologies to those who have deserved replies, explanations, pleas for forgiveness.

 

Earlier this week I consigned myself to hospice care, with the advice and consent of my family. I did so to escape the maddening anxiety-producing roller-coaster of contemporary medical care. 

 

This doesn't mean that I am at death's door, only that I recognize the inevitability of its opening for me in the (relatively) near future. I hope, for example, to last at least as long as our hospice-pent (albeit at home) former president Jimmy Carter. But there are no guarantees. 

 

I wish you all well and hope to create at least one more Fairwood Press title, with the help of my nearly lifelong friend, Michael Hutchins, something like "Stolen Faces and Other, Briefer Science Fiction Tales." Blessings on you all.

 

Reposted from Facebook, wiithout permission (forgiveness is asked). Coppyright 2023