Bøger af David Farren

A young Norseman, determined to be accepted as a Viking warrior, makes a deal that leads to his becoming an outlaw. Aided by a mysterious Saxon warrior who has taken the name of the trickster god Loki he becomes an adventurer in the turbulent world of ninth-century Europe.

It is the Lunar New Year 2027 in San Francisco but the familiar Lion Dance ritual is disrupted by explosions. Fran Martinet, who has already had to deal with one murder in a classic San Francisco setting, finds herself challenged to learn why she was chosen to be the Black Queen in a deadly chess game that somehow reaches back to her own childhood and a predatory priest. To do so she must avoid being taken out of play by a conspiracy of White Bishops and their pawn, a charismatic evangelist dubbed the Magic Man.

My novel Mendaga's Morning was first published as a paperback in the United Kingdom in1979. The cover rather inaccurately described it as "a super-shock novel of satanic possession--the ultimate in horror." In this book I am presenting the actual background of the novel in the occult revival of the 1960s along a short story that I wrote long afterward as a sequel I am also including a half-dozen other stories with various supernatural themes that, like the novel, present otherworldly entities not at all "satanic" but far more like the humans responsible for their existence. As a philosophy professor I have long been writing about what it means to accept or reject religious belief, and my first books approached occultism as a counterpoint to a completely materialistic view of human existence. Eventually I decided to add to the familiar tropes of occultist fiction with the idea of a demonmonger, someone able to negotiate with the gods or demons presumed to be for hire. If there is one theme running through all my stories it is the attempt to deal with love and loss defines not just our human world but also whatever lies beyond it.

These three new satirical novellas by David Farren, author of Mendaga's Morning and Bitter the Second Time Around, imagine a future unalterably changed by the American radical right. In the Witches of Westwood a UCLA women's basketball team attempt to defeat the supporters of Make America Religious Again even it takes witchcraft to do so. Apocalypse When? imagines the problems caused for the Second Coming when the purported Messiah changes his mind. In the Prometheus Deception America's newest counter-terrorist agency attempts to deal with the threat of an alien pregnancy.

A disillusioned teenager comes to grips with drugs, sex, his priest cousin's abandoned vocation, and the call to arms of a manipulative would-be revolutionary. A predatory cult leader attempts to exploit the teachings of a group with links to the medieval movement of the Cathars. A cynical talk-radio personality meets his match in an alluring fantasy writer and a young Arab refugee with unique paranormal abilities. What links them is that they are, each in his or her own way, examples of Los Angeles craziness in the period from 1968 to 1972.

A poetry collection

This collection of poems is engaging, amusing and sometimes downright hilarious. An occasional dip into nonsense provides a wonderful distraction from everyday worries! I wrote this bookSo you could lookTo see what I had written,And that in a whileYou would smileAnd with its characters you'd be smitten.