The Necromancer Candle: And Two Additional Tales of Contemporary Fantasy, by Randy McCharles
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The Necromancer Candle: And Two Additional Tales of Contemporary Fantasy, by Randy McCharles
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The Necromancer CandleCassidy's family has a secret. An ancient, ugly candle passed down through the generations until it is has been all but forgotten. But now someone is looking for it, or so Cassidy thinks. A victim of terminal brain cancer, Cassidy no longer trusts what she sees. But real or imagined, the upheaval of Cassidy's life is moving quickly toward an end where Cassidy' greatest wish is to die on her own terms. But is that long enough to solve the mystery of the necromancer candle?Full HouseWhen Jonas loses his job on the same day a neighbor is murdered, he finds his days at home more challenging yet rewarding than he ever imagined. Against a backdrop of healing family relationships and expounding upon life with his poker buddies, Jonas finds himself pressured to solve the murder. But the more he learns, the more Jonas sees that this is no simple murder, but a mystery that has spanned centuries.Merlin's SilverJoan gets more than she bargained for when she buys an expensive tea service at auction to shake up a lackluster marriage. It seems the tea service is sought by black magicians who will stop at nothing to get it, with only a peculiar little man named Odds Bodkins standing in their way. But who can Joan trust? The mysterious voice on the phone offering to buy the tea service? Her best friend Sally who offers to take it off her hands? Or Odds Bodkins, whose designs grow more unfathomable by the hour?
The Necromancer Candle: And Two Additional Tales of Contemporary Fantasy, by Randy McCharles- Amazon Sales Rank: #5035312 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
About the Author
Randy McCharles is active in Calgary, Alberta's writing community with a focus on dark, humorous fantasy and is a recipient of the prestigious Aurora Award for speculative short fiction. Publishing credits include Tesseracts 11, 12, & 16; Okal Rel Opus 2 & 6; The Puzzle Box (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing); Year's Best Fantasy 9 (David Hartwell and Kathryn Kramer, ed); and is a regular contributor to the 10th Circle Project. He also helps organize literary events and SF & F conventions. In 2005 he co-chaired the first Calgary Westercon, and chaired the 2008 World Fantasy Convention. Randy is a long-time member of IFWA, the Imaginative Fiction Writers Association.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Review: The Necromancer Candle by Randy McCharles By Elise Abram Randy McCharles, author of "The Necromancer Candle" (Edge Publishing) is a master storyteller in this collection of three novellas. Each of the novellas tells a compelling story with well-rounded characters.In the first story, “The Necromancer Candle”, teenage Cassidy is reeling having just lost her mother in a break-in. Cassidy is dying from brain cancer and struggles coping with her mother dying before her. She must battle Child and Family Services and the return of her estranged father. If that wasn’t enough, she sees visions of a dishevelled man she’s not sure is real, or a product of her cancer addled brain. Her life is thrown into further upheaval when she learns her family has been tasked since medieval times with protecting the necromancer candle.In “Full House”, unemployed Jonas spends his time painting house and playing cards with his neighbours. When a neighbour is murdered and the head of the family tasks him with finding the murderer, Jonas is swept into an age old quest for the holy grail with ties to King Arthur and Merlin.In “Merlin’s Silver”, Joan buys a silver tea set on a whim at auction. Amidst requests by shadowy figures to purchase the tea set from her, Joan contends with a wave of deathly bad luck. Though Joan is in this adventure with her husband, best friend, and a peculiar stranger, she alone must decide what to do with the tea set.I read "The Necromancer Candle" inside of a week. I found the stories gripping and the characters interesting but marred by the deus ex machina method of plot resolution. “The Necromancer Candle” has wisps of the supernatural woven throughout, but the true supernatural aspect of the candle is not revealed until the climax and denouement. There is nothing paranormal about “Full House” (with the exception of a false reporting of a pentagram in a neighbour’s basement) until the climax. By contrast, “Merlin’s Silver” is rife with references to black magic and Merlin, but the magic doesn’t manifest until the climax. Though I was drawn in by each of the stories (with the exception of “Merlin’s Sliver” which seemed more farcical than not), I was let down by the climax.In "The Necromancer Candle", McCharles has great potential, but it falls flat. Perhaps this is due to the choice of narrative point of view. In each case, McCharles chooses the viewpoint of an outsider, totally uninitiated into the world of the supernatural. Had the first story been narrated by Cassidy’s father instead of Cassidy herself, for example, the same story might have had a more satisfying climax, as the reader would be in on the magic from the start.One last note: I received a free copy of "The Necromancer Candle" by Randy McCharles in exchange for this review. My hope for this novel is that Edge plans to edit further before publishing to eliminate many of the typographical errors within.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Dim Candle By Wild Nelly I have difficulty with authors who use two different time periods incongruously. The book begins with a sinister scene from the distant past, then fast forward to modern day life. There is much drama with a murder and danger lurks everywhere. The daughter of the murdered mother is clueless. Eventually, they realize it all revolves around an old candle that was passed down through her fathers family. By this time he does not know why he is guardian of the candle. Why this dark character chooses to steal the candle at this point of time after all these years is a bit murky. Perhaps it would satisfy a Young Adult reader but not for an adult reader. I have yet to read the additional books that other reviewers say are an improvement to his ability.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Fantastic tales of fantasy By I Feel the Need, the Need to Read book blog *I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.*This collection of short stories were paired together very well. They all offered intrigue, suspense, fantasy, and the unknown in vast amounts. Each of the stories were well written and gave you that exceptionally eerie sense of creepiness when reading them. They definitely kept you clinging to the pages and hanging on every word. I especially liked the sense of not knowing who the “bad” guys were in the stories “Full House” and “Merlin’s Silver.” You aren’t sure what is happening or who to believe. I think my favorite story, although I really liked them all, was “Full House.” I loved the odd sister-in-law and the creepy neighbors. I definitely didn’t guess how that was going to turn out before it was concluded. Randy McCharles was able to put some little twist in each of the stories the stories that I hadn’t expected. I give this compilation 5 books.
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