The Quiet Snow
Her hair, brown with a tinge of red and no little grey blows over her face, he can tell she is surprised to see him, shit I know her, where
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Over the Tears of the Fallen.
"Over the Tears of the fallen" is the first book in a trilogy titled "And The Sea shall give up it's Dead". The book is out now and available to buy from all good online and traditional bookstores in both digital and traditional formats.
Beneath the vast grey monstrous Atlantic Ocean another monster stirs. Less potent, perhaps, but ambitious and deadly, once a sea god it has designs to rule the seas once more. Bitter, discarded and without remorse it rises from the seabed to dominate, to be worshiped and adored. To be Feared. The friends fight for the soul of the land, it's freedom and the death of the old god. Given a helping hand by the other old gods of the depths the friends have an army on hand; dead fishermen returned to life sent to combat a greater evil. Trawler men are difficult to deal with even when alive never mind when dead. Traitors in the their midst, dead Fishermen and monsters from the deep are only a few of the things they have to contend with as the old god makes it presence known.
Expecting an easy read? gird your loins. This is excellent stuff but hard reading at times. Sad and terrible, filled with loss and longing. I found it rather beautiful. Distinctive. Original to me. I will be reading more from the author soon. An original take on a very unusual tale.
Manwer Khan. The Spectator.
There is a war coming, visceral, bloody and damaging. The Morrigan sits upon a crumbling stone wall and knows that more blood will be spilled here. Soon.
A man goes hill walking just to enjoy the beauty of the Scottish Highlands and happens upon a ruined hill fort that no one has seen in an age. This relic was once the scene of an ancient battle, a battle that rages still, unseen, between Celtic and demonic forces, magical and mystical and it is about to reach its unholy end. Rob, the aesthete, the fool, the romantic dreamer, is about to get drawn into the strangest of worlds, a world that could end him in the blink of an eye, a world different from all he knows and understands.
Raymond Walker the Author of "The Secret Inside" and "The River Girls Torment" unleashes his new novel, a dark fantasy, grand and sweeping, with greed and envy at it's core. Expect to be swept along in a rising tide of horror and war before the very unexpected conclusion.
Marie Baeliel Horror Monthly.
It is thought that the young writer. RAYMOND WALKER, Whilst walking in his adored Scot's mountains was ensnared by a creature from the Faerie realm who enjoyed his tales so much that he has ever since been held under a glamour. The faerie sprite in her majesty and capriciousness allows the author to walk the highlands and forests of his homeland and ferment tales for her enjoyment and that of her monstrous host.
On the feasts of Samhain and Beltane when the walls between the worlds grow thin the author is able once again to tread the hills of his land and visit those he loved, before the glamour draws him back into the mists and enchantments of Faerie. Each Spring and autumn he leaves his tales upon the bed of his lost love for her to read as he can give her nothing otherwise but sadness. So he leaves his tales for her and with a kiss upon her sleeping lips fades again into the night.
A young girl, abandoned in the ancient Caledonian forest seeks refuge in the arms of a hill walker, or so it seems to the casual observer. A River Sprite seeks solace in the arms of a human, as her world is disappearing. A moon-child creeps from her Holt beneath an ancient tree, scenting the night air, and is enveloped in the world of humans. The man who fell in love with death, who no longer wishes to live but cannot die tells his tale. Goats that debate in shady glens at night discuss revolution, Wolves that are men and men who are wolves wonder of their purpose in life. True love remains eternal in the worthiest of sad tales. These new Faerie and folk tales, of Scotland, from the pen of Raymond Walker, Author of “A River of Tears” and “The Secret Inside” embody the living soul of Scots folk and faerie tales. Enchanting, beautiful, haunting and timeless. Never have I read of such beauty as I have here. The innocence reverberates in every tale. Beautiful. Robert Anderson. Author of "Elizabeth"
In this strange world, much like our own an unlikely hero embarks upon three very different quests overseen by a supernatural being known only as "The Observer". The tasks are simple, to free dead children, lost at sea, from the clutching hands of loving bereaved parents. Survive an eternity of obsessive love and win a battle that cannot be won, as it has already been lost and banish a Demon to the underworld. A new book by Raymond Walker, the author of "The Secret Inside" and "The River Girls Torment" Combining Dark Fantasy and Horror with an almost homely setting this book will, at times, tug upon your heartstrings, fill you with anticipation and dread as twilight approaches and the shadows grow long over western Argyll.
"The Quiet Snow" removes every trace of love from Rob's life. Guen is gone, her footprints disappear, then her smell, her body and love vanish; covered with a thin film of falling snow. All trace of Guen is gone and forgotten. But Rob has not forgotten her, She may be missing but he has to keep looking for her, Guen cannot be dead, they would have found a body. She cannot be alive, she would have called him, came home. And So Rob searched the hills and valleys looking for his lost love for years and years. Many years passed in search of the impossible. Rob, started to forget and in letting her go he was to find her again. Very much alive and well but changed, different reclusive. Even more like him than she ever was when they first met.
This is a horror story but not in anyway that you would normally expect. There are no corpses bobbing from a boiling lake, no evisceration, no macabre deaths.There are screaming children wishing to be set free from familial slavery, The glamour of ancient forces used for personal enjoyment no matter the effects upon the victim and then there is the ineffectual demon feeding upon silly arguments and irritations that plague us all.
Weird and eerie, shocking and penetrating in a psychological, rather than slasher, blend of mystery and Horror.
I loved it.
Melanie Smith. Horror Review E-Zine.
One of the strangest tales I have ever read and it makes no excuses for it's oddness.
I found this beautiful and otherworldly but suspect that each reader will have their own thoughts. A beautiful romance, not for everyone.
Jim Cherachen Poetry Monthly.
Expect emotion, expect tragedy, expect tears and subtle drama. these things are a simple consequence of reading Raymond Walkers work. I both love and dread each new book as I know there will be tears but also love. I still await each release with anticipation. Marshall Smith. The Dark Half.
The Season has set sail here into the warm west and winter has dug its bitter claws in deep. Every tree in my garden is skeletal now, branches reaching upwards towards a jigsaw grey sky as if beseeching Odin for sunshine or even a break in the stolid monstrous grey, roiling gloom, that lies over my head prophesying an impending doom.
A wonderful conglomeration of tales ending with the cessation of a happy life. Commencing with the wondrous. if dark. tale "The Crows Feather" and including the tales; "A picture upon the wall", "A Wolf in the Hills" and the strange distopian tale; "Wisdom lies in adaptability" all built in the mercurial mind of Raymond Walker.
As time passes, everything changes. The world we live in is in turmoil, we stampede from one crisis to the next, never heeding the grand design,If indeed there is one. Imagine now that nothing changes, the world turns and adapts through time but now; the now we know, here and today, is the same as it always was, the same as it always will be. Time is only a trick played upon us. Has not the world always suffered from turmoil, are our lives not the same as those who have gone before us with few differences? An explanation of time, the characters essentially the same though they live centuries apart, their thoughts, hopes and fears differ little from the reality of today, their goals essentially the same; to eat, have happy lives, to love and be loved, to search endlessly for a contentment that can never be realized.
As usual Raymond Walker has brought these unanswered questions to life in an exciting tale of love, passion, loss and romance that will keep every reader mesmerized from the very first pages to the dramatic conclusion.
It was, had been and still is, raining; the humped stones of the cobbled square slippery with the blustery torrents spewing rain and seawater into the square. The wind whipping between the old beige and red sandstone buildings, most, three stories high, that sheltered the town centre on three sides, the open side filled with an unremitting grey, reinforced concrete wall against which the sea beat with relentless fury, pouring tons of seawater in a spasmodic display of crashing breakers cresting the wall to spray salt water into the square with each wave, just for it to recede, drawing what it had left upon the slick lumpen square back through small recessed drains that bubbled and frothed with the force of the Winter tide.
The author smelled the salt in the air and a little wood smoke as he slithered upon the slippery cobble stones. The water turned dirty from the leaves mulched upon the stone and winter's gritting, splashed from the ruts between the stones staining his black leather patent shoes. He had hoped to make a good impression for his hosts but failed miserably due to the terrible weather.
A broken writer returns to a quiet seaside village, looking to kickstart his life and career and while there make good on a promise he barely remembered making. He becomes enamoured of the bookshop and its history, particulary of the woman that brought writing and reading to the region, a strange, enigmatic, beauty that seems to haunt him when he is there.
How do you say fantastic again and again? When It comes to Mr Walkers works I feel as though I am repeating myself. Beauty and perfect description in one tale. A wondrous work again from Raymond Walker. Marlee Macallman. The Book Review.
A novel, in these days when everyone writes, has to be more than just good words, a beautiful tale is required. This is it, your beautiful tale. This has all that you ever want in a novel. A simple story complicated by the weather and the wonderful, believable, characters. Add to that a beautiful setting and a possible ghost. We are all set.
Ronan Williams. The National.
Love, Life and Death
A depiction of true love in the real world. Fantastical and surreal, no one expects a true love, taken and given, to be real yet it is, our romantic dreams are not only dreams as true love; romance and magic lives in our minds and souls.
It may not have form or substance but love is an important part of our life.
Eternal love is the theme here but I never leave the natural world where life and death intervenes, as that is the very nature of our being.
This book harnesses our emotions of love, it develops them and asks for more, a love for our planet our ecology while it still focuses on real life strange as it is.
The critics, it seems, (from previews) love this book leaving comments such as;
I cried myself to sleep after reading this. Emotional, beautiful and carried a message, loudly (The Guardian)
I can only call this "True Romanticism", even the strange ghostliness of the book, the beautiful hopelessness it coveys is true magic. (Poetry Monthly)
This is an old novel now, a romance I wrote back in the nineties and it was time to update it.
All it has gained is a new cover and blurb and so if you have read it do not buy it again.
If you have not read it; what's holding you back. A chance meeting begins a tale of love, sex, deceit, infidelity, loss and tragedy. This moving, heartwarming tale of real life and unrequeited love in this modern unpredictable world is quirky and offbeat as well sharp and insightful. In equal measures it will make you laugh at the absurdity of life and cry at its many injusticies. This modern love story of real people living everyday lives will suprise amaze and delight every reader.
The Picture on the wall, is a new short story, taken from the compendium of tales known as "When Night Reigns Supreme". This collection was scheduled for release this summer but the author, as is normal for him has become sidetracked and is currently working on a new novel.
To make up for this delay he has released this short story, a ghostly tale, which you can buy for your kindle at the lowest price Amazon would allow or alternately read it here for free by simply clicking upon "The Picture on the wall" page.
I hope that you enjoy it and will forgive the delay in publication of "When Night Reigns Supreme".
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