STEPHEN G. KIRK
A Canadian Author of Horror & Speculative Fiction
Within these pages, fictional themes take root in the abstract.
Speculation blends with inevitable consequence.
Compass points lay carelessly scribbled on a tattered map. Lonely destinations where memory ebbs and reason fractures.
Somewhere within the gloom of twilght a mound of dark earth disguises a murdered past refusing to lay buried. Something abandons the grave’s cold silence: a skeletal finger, wavering, seeking blame among the shadows. Might that bony digit point toward you?
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Read on if you dare!
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Watch as ordinary people rush into the unknown then stop mid‑stride; frozen... mouths agape and eyes wide. Witness as a scene slowly resolves into a mind‑shredding phantom that tests the courage or foolhardiness of those finding themselves trapped within these pages. Who among them has lingered a moment too long?
They say that "curiosity killed the cat".
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MIGHT YOU BE NEXT?
COMING SOON
The RAIL HOUSE: A tale of Steel and Shadow
Could this be the End of the Line?
Available Publications
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The following is a collection of my writing projects. Each piece is unique in style and content and represents a distinct moment in my career.
If you have any questions or are interested in publishing my work please contact me.
All the works here are under Copyright
Dire Echoes
An evil prowls the borders of Ontario's Algonquin Provincial Park!
Several respected First Nations hunters have reported sighting a solitary black wolf of huge proportion roaming the lands killing wild and domestic animals at will. Supported by official reports, rumors of the creature spread like wildfire through the community. When a local hunter loses his son to the beast, he and other fellows hunters take up the chase but soon find they themselves are the hunted!
Follow the scientists and wardens as they strive to reveal the true nature of the beast while unraveling the mysteries lying beneath. Feel their astonishment as they consult a notable authority whose specialty lies in the process of evolution and the possibility of a strange divergence from the norm; in doing so they uncover a disturbing truth cloaked and shrouded in the mists of memory and legend.
THE DEVIL ATOP CAULDRON PEAK
George Dunn and his wife Grace stand together taking stock of this year’s disappointing crop of barley and dry peas. To make ends meet, George partners up with an experience trapper and head into the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
For several weeks, trapping is going well until George becomes puzzled to discover his traps and snares methodically looted, hidden, or destroyed. Whatever seems bent on some vengeful course, he’s quite certain it’s not human. George finally catches a glimpse of the strange creature and the animal is of a kind he’s never before laid eyes upon.
The stage is set for a life and death struggle that will take place among the rugged peaks and valleys of the Rocky Mountains. The stakes could not be higher for George or the legendary beast he faces, the Kwekwatshew - and there are no guarantees as to who may prevail.
THE BEAUTIFUL BEAST
At the tender age of twenty-two years, Irma Grese worked as a senior female guard within the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. Following the war, she was accused of partaking in a series of outrageous atrocities within the prison and found guilty by a war crimes court. Grese was hung by her neck, taken down from the scaffold and buried without ceremony in the prison yard where she had died... or had she?
Fast forward sixty years later to Hansel’s Creek. The small town in Washington State is beginning to become aware that people living in the surrounding area are being reported missing at an alarming rate. While visiting his father, homicide detective Martin Denton is asked to assist the local Sheriff’s office with their investigation. As the bodies pile up, what Marty discovers is truly disturbing.
Denton suddenly finds himself aided by a member of the FBI, Alija Cole, and another unusually talented, though strange man, Lyle Fox. Together the trio is on the track of a delinquent member of an ancient and long-lived race, over the centuries the “Eternal order” has spawned countless legends, both good and evil.
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BORGWARD
When Henry Drummond inherits a pristine 1939 Borgward sedan from his estranged grandfather, he assumes it’s nothing more than a valuable antique. But the car carries a history far darker than any collector’s prize.
Built in Nazi Germany and once linked to Heinrich Himmler himself, the Borgward arrives with a battered journal and a handful of photographs that suggest the vehicle witnessed some of the Third Reich’s most sinister moments. At first, Henry dismisses the stories as relics of wartime myth.
Then the car begins to start itself.
Each night, always around the same hour, the engine roars to life in the garage. A uniformed driver appears behind the wheel. And by morning, the car sits quietly where it began—leaving behind faint traces of blood, whispers of violence, and the growing certainty that something evil still rides within its polished black frame.
As Henry digs deeper into the car’s past, he discovers a terrifying truth: the Borgward isn’t just haunted. It is hunting.
Now the question is no longer whether the legend is real…
but who the car will claim next.
VELOGENIC:
THE DRAGON'S CROWN
An international team of medical and intelligence agency investigators looks into an intentional release of Covid 19 by a secretive group of highly influential and wealthy elitists seeking to profit from the resulting pandemic. ​
​International intrigue creates political unrest resulting in a display of super power animosity and saber rattling reaching a climax in a head to head showdown between the US 7th Fleet and the Chinese Navy.
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The only chance of a de-escalation of tensions lie on the shoulders of an intrepid team of investigators. What they do or fail to do may well save the world, or throw it into a tailspin from which there may be no return.
And Midnight Came to Call
This was my first dive into the pool. You may find it a thought provoking, Horror / Sci-fi genre collection features nine short stories of various lengths having a wide audience appeal. The plots and themes are crisp and clean; and more importantly, the ideas driving the stories forward seem to take on a life of their own.
Each story differentiates itself from others within the collection while spanning the globe and time itself. Wherever possible, the settings reflect actual locations, social conditions, and backdrops based within realistic science or myth such that while the underlying plots may strain credibility, they seldom threaten to tear open its fabric. Grounded in a slightly bent, rather than a fully warped sense of reality, the stories exude an underlying sense of normality, until they do not.
The nine stories within the collection “And Midnight Came to Call” reflect this preference often bringing along unexpected twists as they end.