The Ballad of Bill McKenzie: The Magic Mattress, #1
By Rob Sloane
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The Ballad of Bill McKenzie is the haunting and Gothic first volume introducing us to the universe and characters of the Magic Mattress series of books.
Epic tales of high fantasy, ghosts, monsters, adventure, mayhem, and mystery... all happening in our familiar world: just out of sight; or there, in the corner of your eye.
Herein lies a ghostly little tale of top hats and tall booted fantasy, to stir the unquiet imagination.
There is a most infamous ghost in Liverpool. A legendary apparition, to inspire dread and wonder, and his name: Bill McKenzie. He has haunted the city streets in his top hat and tall leather boots for as long as any can now remember. Yet, all anyone truly knows about him is wild speculation and rumor. His is a dark mystery that has remained secreted for a century and more. And there his bones sit on a chair, in a pyramid-shaped tomb, in an abandoned churchyard, on Rodney Street.
Exactly how did McKenzie – in his life, an esteemed engineer and upstanding Victorian - become in death, this ghastly green-eyed specter that strikes mortal terror into all who should glance upon him? Why does his restless shade sing among the shadows that dark lament of restitution, justice, and revenge?
This then is old Bill's ghostly tale, told exactly as it happened: beware, for it is a macabre affair of the magical and the supernatural. The eternal game of souls: vast fortunes to be won, and enormous stakes to be lost. McKenzie's fate, however, is not the end of the story – no, not by any means. It is merely the beginning of the undertaking. The opening moves in a far grander game: a fantastic adventure spanning all of time and creation.
Rob Sloane
A real Renaissance Man from Suffolk in England, who has worked at various times, and in various countries, as a Hollywood scriptwriter, a director of radio drama, a professional photographer, and a videogames producer! Now an author of his own original books, comics, and scripts.
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