Finbar's Story: Steve Vernon's Sea Tales, #4
By Steve Vernon
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Water is a liar.
If you tell a story with water it cannot be trusted and it will wash away in the first hard rain or in the tears of a long good cry.
And stories told in blood and stone last longer by far.
Finbar Tanner is telling a story to his son, Isaac.
It is a story of love, desire and sacrifice.
It is a story of blood and water and stones.
It is a story of the deeper currents that flow within a man's heart.
It is a story of the sea.
Come and listen...
Steve Vernon
Everybody always wants a peek at the man behind the curtain. They all want to see just exactly what makes an author tick.Which ticks me off just a little bit - but what good is a lifetime if you can't ride out the peeve and ill-feeling and grin through it all. Hi! I am Steve Vernon and I'd love to scare you. Along the way I'll try to entertain you and I guarantee a giggle as well.If you want to picture me just think of that old dude at the campfire spinning out ghost stories and weird adventures and the grand epic saga of how Thud the Second stepped out of his cave with nothing more than a rock in his fist and slew the mighty saber-toothed tiger.If I listed all of the books I've written I'd most likely bore you - and I am allergic to boring so I will not bore you any further. Go and read some of my books. I promise I sound a whole lot better in print than in real life. Heck, I'll even brush my teeth and comb my hair if you think that will help any.For more up-to-date info please follow my blog at:http://stevevernonstoryteller.wordpress.com/And follow me at Twitter:@StephenVernonyours in storytelling,Steve Vernon
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Finbar's Story - Steve Vernon
FINBAR’S
STORY
By
Steve Vernon
Steve Vernon’s Sea Tales #4
STARK RAVEN PRESS
Table of Contents
Title Page
Finbar's Story (Steve Vernon's Sea Tales, #4)
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What People Are Saying About Steve Vernon
If Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch had a three-way sex romp in a hot tub, and then a team of scientists came in and filtered out the water and mixed the leftover DNA into a test tube, the resulting genetic experiment would most likely grow up into Steve Vernon.
– Bookgasm
Steve Vernon is something of an anomaly in the world of horror literature. He's one of the freshest new voices in the genre although his career has spanned twenty years. Writing with a rare swagger and confidence, Steve Vernon can lead his readers through an entire gamut of emotions from outright fear and repulsion to pity and laughter.
- Cemetery Dance
Armed with a bizarre sense of humor, a huge amount of originality, a flair for taking risks and a strong grasp of characterization - Steve's got the chops for sure.
- Dark Discoveries
Steve Vernon is a hard writer to pin down. And that’s a good thing.
– Dark Scribe Magazine
This genre needs new blood and Steve Vernon is quite a transfusion.
–Edward Lee, author of FLESH GOTHIC and CITY INFERNAL
Steve Vernon is one of the finest new talents of horror and dark fiction
- Owl Goingback, author of CROTA
Steve Vernon was born to write. He's the real deal and we're lucky to have him.
- Richard Chizmar
To the sea that swims
in
all of us...
Introduction
I AM A STORYTELLER, first and foremost.
My natural habitat is close to the campfire and I breathe words the way that some men smoke.
I have lived by the ocean for nearly four decades. I have listened to the waves talking to the shoreline. I have heard the old ghost stories told around a thousand campfires. I