Books with author Scott W. Clark

Sitting around the campfire. Marshmellows roasting on a stick. And campfire tales.This collection hearkens back to the times spent with a flashlight under a sheet draped across chairs--everyone under the age of eight knows that’s a good tent--to earlier times when tales were told around campfires. Campfire stories are usually tales of blood and bad endings based mostly on urban legends--horror stories-- of course. Some of them are humorous too, but they are first and foremost stories of possibilities. For someone sitting on a sofa in the luxury of one’s own home with the lights on and bright, to be able to see a man running along the ridge of a distant mountain silhouetted as he moves against the twilight sky would be too absurd for words.But, for some reason--call it what you will--sitting around a campfire away from civilization up in the high country as the sun sets behind massive mountains framed black against the sky, to see a man running along a distant ridge becomes a very real possibility. And, sitting around that same fire, (or huddled under a sheet draped across some chairs with a flashlight) maybe, just maybe, monsters might order pizza and reminisce, mules might talk, frogs might take out loans and chickens just might look for a book review in the swamp.You never know.Stories:One very good pigA barnyard conspiracy“On one condition”The Shaggy DogEncounter on a Train The Gloop MakerThe library patronThe examination The haunted houseJust a Hike in the WoodsAn entrepreneurial frog A warning: These stories are not pc.From the author of I Am Legion, The Joining, Tales for a Dark Night, and the Saga of The Pearl.

A stone. That brings hidden things to light.And a portal that would take Jim to the past. A past where great deeds were done. Jim Brooks is a young man in his last year of high school. He’s a Mormon and a nobody at school or anywhere else, it seems, likes that. At least to him. He chafes at his life. His family is a zero; his father has a nothing job Jim feels is beneath anyone anywhere in the world. And he thinks his father’s making up for it with works at church. For Jim it is all pretense.Then he is given a stone. And his world is turned upside down.From the author of The Pearl, I am Legion, and Skyfallen.PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a book written for a Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) audience.

Hard comes in the night. It moves in thick, deep and deepening. The darkness seeps in, down in, to the very center, the very core. Things stir in the shadows, dark things, secret things, things that do not live in the light.They linger watching from the shadows and lick their lips waiting for the light to vanish. Then they will be free. Then they will come. Voices beckon from the darkness.A box carries Armageddon.A hangman at the end of his rope.A message from beyond the grave.The laughter of disembodied children.A sinister smile.These are tales from the dark. This is the fourth book in the From the Dark series.These stories originally appeared in the series Tales for a Dark Night.

Lights moving among the dead. The dead come to life. Whispering voices in the shadows and in the dark. The sun is setting; the night will be dark. Things hatched in the shadows come out to possess it. Fear treads heavily, fear of the unseen and what moves in the shadows. What will dash out from the corners? What is there in the recesses I cannot see, behind me, to the side, in front? Is it real or is it imagined? These are stories of the fear that stalks us in the night time. Lights in the graveyard. A clown through the window. The voice in room 636.A house that wasn’t there. These are tales from the dark. This is the first book in the From the Dark series.These stories originally appeared in the series Tales for a Dark Night.

Night is coming on and things gather past the edge of the light in the blackness beyond, unseen, unseeable.A groan, a sigh, a resignation to the pain, the anguish, the terror.A shadow moves. What is that? It is coming. From out of the blackness it is coming.A woman and her husband in the wild find a disturbing man with an interesting appendage. A man with tickets to a train that doesn't exist finds out differently. A student desperate for money gets more than he bargains in Mexico.A mummy takes on the ship that was unsinkable.These are tales from the dark. This is the third book in the From the Dark series.These stories originally appeared in the series Tales for a Dark Night.Book 4 is available.

The sun has set. Darkness settles in. There is quiet. Nothing stirs, at least not yet. All is quiet; all is peaceful.But then a shriek and something moves in the shadows. And a sound.A scream that dies out on the wind.A disturbing messageThe sound of chopping, chopping, chopping in the woods.A woman in white on a lone road.The cry from below ground. A phone call from beyond.The stranger in the shadows.These are tales from the dark.This is the second book of the From the Dark series. These stories originally appeared in the series Tales for a Dark Night.Book 3 is available.

A nobleman rides into a town and is confronted by town oficials. "Save us from the dragon," they say and he agrees. They dress him in the armor they have and send him off to the woods to take on the dragon.What he finds surprises him.From the book, The Pearl, the Dragonslayer is an engaging short story full of charm.Scott W. Clark is the author of I am Legion, The Pearl and the forthcoming book, The Joining.

A boy, an elf and a train. And a great adventure.Sam Reynolds is in trouble. He’s been placed in detention by the school and on restriction by his dad for fighting. The cause? A story. It was a story his grandfather told him of a trip he took by train when he was a boy. To the great city of the north.The North Pole. He came back from that trip with a circular object dropped in the snow by a man he could see only from a distance. In the center of it, writ large, were the initials SC.Santa Claus!It had to be.Sam has heard the story his whole life and has seen the proof. But he wants to know or himself, to prove that what he has believed since he could remember was the truth. One night he goes looking for the train that his grandfather rode. What he finds both shocks and surprises him and it leads him on an adventure from which he will never be the same again.From the author of I Am Legion, Skyfallen, Shadow Lords, and The Joining.

Spectrarium IA story of a young man coming of age in a broken world. He is given a great power from a different world,to build a new life from the ashes. He discovers amazing friends and revives the hope that humanity once had. He learns to be the leader that he never wanted to be, all the while finding himself. With the help of EZ, an alien computer, that has almost become sentient, a guitar player, that can control your emotions. A healer, a botanist, a teen-age genius, a flying man, and a kid that talks to bears! Together they take on the world, or what's left of it. This is only the beginning!!!

Spectrarium I A story of a young man coming of age in a broken world. He is given a great power from a different world,to build a new life from the ashes. He discovers amazing friends and revives the hope that humanity once had. He learns to be the leader that he never wanted to be, all the while finding himself. With the help of EZ, an alien computer, that has almost become sentient, a guitar player, that can control your emotions. A healer, a botanist, a teen-age genius, a flying man, and a kid that talks to bears! Together they take on the world, or what's left of it. This is only the beginning!!!

Curtis is twelve and he's a believer. He believes something that no respecting teen would ever come within a thousand miles of believing and maintain any credibility as some kind of functioning member of society. A least that society contained within the four walls of an American junior high. But Curtis believes it. And he has paid a price for that. His friends have tried to talk him out of it. They have reasoned with him and made the best arguments they could make. And his parents, like any good parents in the twenty-first century do not want their son saddled with anything that would be detrimental to his well-being, to his advancement. They have even consulted a psychiatrist about it. But nothing has come of it. Curtis still believes. He believes in Santa Claus. Until, however, his friend achieves a breakthrough. Now Curtis's whole world has changed. That is, until a strange man shows up wearing plaid pants. From the author of North's End.