Title: Lucas Mackenzie and the London Midnight Ghost Show
Publication date: November 18, 2014
Publisher: Month9Books, LLC.
Author: Steve Bryant
Lucas Mackenzie has got the best job of any 10 year old boy. He travels from city-to-city as part of the London Midnight Ghost Show, scaring unsuspecting show-goers year round. Performing comes naturally to Lucas and the rest of the troupe, who’ve been doing it for as long as Lucas can remember.
But there’s something Lucas doesn’t know.
Like the rest of Luca’s friends, he’s dead. And for some reason, Lucas can’t remember his former life, his parents or friends. Did he go to school? Have a dog? Brothers and sisters?
If only he could recall his former life, maybe even reach out to his parents, haunt them.
When a ghost hunter determines to shut the show down, Lucas realizes the life he has might soon be over. And without a connection to his family, he will have nothing. There’s little time and Lucas has much to do. Can he win the love of Columbine, the show’s enchanting fifteen-year-old mystic? Can he outwit the forces of life and death that thwart his efforts to find his family?
Keep the lights on! Lucas Mackenzie’s coming to town.
But there’s something Lucas doesn’t know.
Like the rest of Luca’s friends, he’s dead. And for some reason, Lucas can’t remember his former life, his parents or friends. Did he go to school? Have a dog? Brothers and sisters?
If only he could recall his former life, maybe even reach out to his parents, haunt them.
When a ghost hunter determines to shut the show down, Lucas realizes the life he has might soon be over. And without a connection to his family, he will have nothing. There’s little time and Lucas has much to do. Can he win the love of Columbine, the show’s enchanting fifteen-year-old mystic? Can he outwit the forces of life and death that thwart his efforts to find his family?
Keep the lights on! Lucas Mackenzie’s coming to town.
PURCHASE
GUEST POST
If you died and became a spirit (ghost) trapped in the in between, how would you exist? Would you roam around aimlessly? Haunt the people you didn't like? Stick around your family? Join a circus? Lol! Tell me how your second life, as a ghost would be! Thanks
Easy: I would haunt the Magic Castle in Hollywood. It’s where all magicians want to spend their time, dead or alive. I once wrote a lengthy poem about a millennium party at the Castle, featuring ghosts in a couple of passages:
(In Leo Kostka’s seance room
Amid Houdini’s handcuff gloom,
There plays, among departed friends,
A game of hearts that never ends.
Ose deals, not off the top,
Scarne wants to call a cop;
Dai leads off, but Kuda trumps;
The door creaks open, Leo jumps.
But if a mortal should burst in
He’d see no cards, he’d taste no gin;
No clue to where the players went
Beyond the faintest cigar scent.)
And later:
For pleasure Irma’s ancient keys
Conjure ghostly melodies,
Till midnight strikes 2K plus one,
And all our hearts are then undone.
All eyes are moist as we recall
The Castle greats not at this ball:
Play Auld Lang Syne for Peter Pit,
For Donald Lawton, Castle wit,
For Johnny Platt, that "topless" mage,
For Senator Crandall, caustic sage,
For Larry Jennings, Charlie too,
And Mr. Derman (Friday night Lou).
The Bergs, we miss ‘em (Ronnie, Joe),
Albert Goshman’s close-up show,
Maury Leaf, the Blackstones (Harry),
Whitey Roberts and Joe Cossari.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot?
Jim Cooper and Jay Ose – not;
Vernon, Carlyle, Michael Skinner,
And William Larsen, prez forever.
Easy: I would haunt the Magic Castle in Hollywood. It’s where all magicians want to spend their time, dead or alive. I once wrote a lengthy poem about a millennium party at the Castle, featuring ghosts in a couple of passages:
(In Leo Kostka’s seance room
Amid Houdini’s handcuff gloom,
There plays, among departed friends,
A game of hearts that never ends.
Ose deals, not off the top,
Scarne wants to call a cop;
Dai leads off, but Kuda trumps;
The door creaks open, Leo jumps.
But if a mortal should burst in
He’d see no cards, he’d taste no gin;
No clue to where the players went
Beyond the faintest cigar scent.)
And later:
For pleasure Irma’s ancient keys
Conjure ghostly melodies,
Till midnight strikes 2K plus one,
And all our hearts are then undone.
All eyes are moist as we recall
The Castle greats not at this ball:
Play Auld Lang Syne for Peter Pit,
For Donald Lawton, Castle wit,
For Johnny Platt, that "topless" mage,
For Senator Crandall, caustic sage,
For Larry Jennings, Charlie too,
And Mr. Derman (Friday night Lou).
The Bergs, we miss ‘em (Ronnie, Joe),
Albert Goshman’s close-up show,
Maury Leaf, the Blackstones (Harry),
Whitey Roberts and Joe Cossari.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot?
Jim Cooper and Jay Ose – not;
Vernon, Carlyle, Michael Skinner,
And William Larsen, prez forever.
AUTHOR
Steve Bryant is a new novelist, but a veteran author of books of card tricks. He founded a 40+ page monthly internet magazine for magicians containing news, reviews, magic tricks, humor, and fiction; and he frequently contributes biographical cover articles to the country’s two leading magic journals (his most recent article was about the séance at Hollywood’s Magic Castle).
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Five (5) winners will receive a digital copy of Lucas Mackenzie and the London Midnight Ghost Show by Steve Bryant (INT)
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