Wilson E. Clark
There is a world of weirdness lurking beneath the surface of everyday life. My fiction aims to grab that weirdness by the horns and pull it out into the open for your reading pleasure. If you finish one of my books or stories with a smile on your face, then I've done my job.
Newest Release
Those of the Morbid: 6 Strange Stories
Those of the Morbid is a collection of six odd, unusual tales. You'll find stories about a Victorian photographer whose recently deceased clients refuse to let him finish his job, an android who wants a mind of its own but with a steep price to pay, a siblings' journey down the Ohio River in 1700's America interrupted by the beckoning of an abandoned mansion at river's edge, and a gondolier who takes a wrong turn and discovers a terrifying secret lurking in the backwater inlets of Venice.
Available Books
Books
Books are available in digital and print.
Those of the Morbid: 6 Strange Stories
Those of the Morbid is a collection of six odd, unusual tales. You'll find stories about a Victorian photographer whose recently deceased clients refuse to let him finish his job, an android who wants a mind of its own but with a steep price to pay, a siblings' journey down the Ohio River in 1700's America interrupted by the beckoning of an abandoned mansion at river's edge, and a gondolier who takes a wrong turn and discovers a terrifying secret lurking in the backwater inlets of Venice.
Dainty Little Things: 9 Strange Tales
Dainty Little Things is a collection of nine strange and spooky tales. You’ll find stories about a long-haul trucker whose next stop along a lonesome highway could be his last, an intergalactic cleaner mopping up the scrambled atoms of problematic pests and annoying aliens while trying to stay out of jail, a movie theater employee foolishly breaking all the wrong rules while trying to survive till morning, two villagers sent on a forbidden errand to a place where the dead may have ideas of their own, and a couple vacationing in a countryside cabin struggling to resist the beckoning from a mysterious whisper in the nearby woods.
Death Takes a Corpse: 5 Victorian Horror Stories
A widowed woman is befriended by an unkindness of ravens offering unnatural help, a wealthy aristocrat encounters a terrifying presence in the midnight hallways of a manor house, a grieving mother finds a measure of madness by piercing the veil between life and death.Death Takes a Corpse is a collection of five sinister and spooky Victorian tales that will leave you wanting to keep the lights on long after bedtime.
The Middle of Midnight: Speculative Stories
What would you do if your best friend became a werewolf? How would you handle being shipwrecked on a ghostly island in the middle of nowhere?The Middle of Midnight is a collection of eight speculative stories that will take you on a wild ride into words and realities beyond our own.
Griffington House: Volume I
Ghosts, goblins, mummies, and monsters: just another day on the job for detectives Marc Feller and Tina Wang. Join them in this three-tale novella as they police the supernatural world and attempt to stay alive while pursuing suspects who are quite often dead!Stories include:
- When I Was Dead
- When the End Comes
- A Fistful of Soul
Griffington House: Volume II
Ghosts, goblins, mummies, and monsters: just another day on the job for detectives Marc Feller and Tina Wang. Join them in this two-tale novella as they police the supernatural world and attempt to stay alive while pursuing suspects who are quite often dead!Stories include:
- When A Creature Comes Calling
- Spread Your Wings
Witching Hour: Volume I
With a bit of poking and prodding, the oddities lurking beneath the surface of everyday life are brought out into the open. From extraterrestrial encounters to otherworldly experiences, Witching Hour: Volume I is a novella with seven tales that will take you on a roller coaster ride through a world of weirdness.Fans of The X-Files and The Twilight Zone will be right at home!
Witching Hour: Volume II
With a bit of poking and prodding, the oddities lurking beneath the surface of everyday life are brought out into the open. From extraterrestrial encounters to otherworldly experiences, Witching Hour: Volume II is a novella with seven tales that will take you on a roller coaster ride through a world of weirdness.Fans of The X-Files and The Twilight Zone will be right at home!
The Dragon Slayer's Apprentice
Traeden dreamed of owning a shiny suite of armor and becoming a dragon slayer until a fateful encounter changed his life forever. Now disfigured and destitute, Traeden is unexpectedly offered a second chance, but soon discovers that gaining a new life could mean sacrificing that of another.This book is ideal for children new to chapters books (ages 6-8) as well as those who are at an intermediate level of reading chapter books independently (ages 9-12).
Grasping for Straws: Short Stories
A teenage buffet manager meets the girl of his dreams during a robbery, a street beggar befriends a stranger for a free meal, and a wine snob tries falling in love with a high-priced, terrible tasting vintage.Grasping for Straws is a fun and quirky collection of eleven stories, where the secret to getting out of trouble begins with pretending you are not already in over your head.
The Weird West: Volume I: Hell and High Noon
A mysterious stranger named Ramos travels across the desert…An isolated mining town harbors a dark secret, a frontier hotel conceals peril in plain sight, and an abandoned railway station hides a tragic past.Welcome to the old American West, where life is not only wild but weird as well! The Weird West: Volume 1: Hell and High Noon is a three-story collection with full-page, comic book style illustrations.
About
Wilson E. Clark lives in the Pacific Northwest and enjoys writing strange fiction and collecting vintage movie posters. He has written eleven books and over fifty short stories.Creative inspirations include tv shows The X-Files and Supernatural, film directors Steven Spielberg and Sam Raimi, musicians John Williams and Seal, and authors Clive Barker and Isaac Asimov.Also, a very loud and grateful shoutout to writers Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Hugh Howey. As Timothy Zahn once said, "On the rare occasions when we're actually able to trace something directly to its source, it's only right we acknowledge it." Thank you for your inspiration and example.
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