Interview with Lee McAulay
Published 2022-02-11.
What are you working on next?
I'm a third-way through a new novel, Project NEVADA, a murder mystery set in an isolated community. I've also got a number of non-fiction projects to finish, some poetry chapbooks and a new bundle of short stories.
Who are your favorite authors?
Favourite modern authors include Anne Rice, Tim Powers, Scott Lynch and Robert Jackson Bennett. I've been a big fan of pTerry since the early '90s. Historically, there's Alexander Dumas, T H White, H Rider Haggard, and - of course - J R R Tolkein. I think my writing style owes more to the historic than the modern.
Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
I remember writing a ghost story when I was about ten. I wrote my first, unpublishable novel when I was eighteen.
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Latest books by This Author
Shadowbox
by Lee McAulay
Paris, 1832: Fleeing a murder he cannot forget, Louis Beauregard drowns the memory in debauchery - a life of excess that threatens to alienate his friends and cast him adrift in a city famous for glittering seductions and violent Revolution. But the past catches up with him faster than he would like. SHADOWBOX: a spellbinding tale of grief and redemption from the author of THE LAST RHINEMAIDEN.
Dogger, Forties, German Bight
by Lee McAulay
The Shipping Forecast - use it to set your receiver and your barometer readings, then settle down after the National Anthem and listen as a storm sweeps in across the North Sea towards England.
A Cuckoo Club short story.
The Last Rhinemaiden
by Lee McAulay
London, 1888. Enter a world of bloodlines and secret societies. Where ancient creatures roam the streets in human form, and the Sacred King of pagan Britain thrives amongst the wealthy elite at the heart of the British Establishment.
If you think the most sensational events of 1888 were the gruesome murders in Whitechapel, you're wrong.
The spellbinding first novel by the author of SHADOWBOX.
The Broker Of Farewells
by Lee McAulay
Versailles, Paris: a visitor from the New World brings important news, while storms gather on the horizon and an Empire is about to fall.
The First Rhinemaiden
by Lee McAulay
Wolves howl across the frozen tundra while a man and his dog shelter from a blizzard. Out there in the snow is a naked woman. Will he save her? And is she willing to be saved?
A short story with a paranormal element.
Kittens In The Emu Field
by Lee McAulay
Four travellers through the Australian Outback - two European, two Aboriginal - are stuck in a shack on the edge of the desert, waiting for nightfall. In the distance, Army trucks move on the road. Will it thwart their plans?
A paranormal short story.
All Roads Lead To The River
by Lee McAulay
(3.00 from 1 review)
Louis Beauregard, Victorian adventurer, has caroused his way around the Grand Tour with poets and playboys. Now, in the shadow of the Pyramids, what Louis discovers by the banks of the Nile will change his life forever.
This short story is set in the same world as full-length novel, "The Last Rhinemaiden".
Tales From The Cuckoo Club Archives Vol. 1
by Lee McAulay
Five short stories of paranormal adventure with a common alternative history theme:
- All Roads Lead To The River
- King Of The Sea
- Kittens In The Emu Field
- The Ballad Of Charlemagne's Clerk
- William Rufus
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