INTERVIEWS
Online interviews where David and John talk about The Spiraling Worm, how it came to be, and the book's influences.
OzHorrorScope Interview: David Conyers (26 August 2007)
OzHorrorScope Interview: John Sunseri (26 August 2007)
2007 Snapshot Interview: David Conyers (ASif!, August 2007)
Adelaide author delves into Cthulhu Mythos (ABC News Online, 9 July 2007)
REVIEWS
The ideas and scope are consistently breathtaking. There is plenty in this book to captivate hardcore Cthulhu Mythos fans and those unfamiliar with the work of Lovecraft and his ilk . . . . It will probably be the most original and imaginative Australian release this year. While others are rehashing vampires, werewolves, and witches . . . David Conyers and John Sunseri are tackling cosmic horrors - warts, pseudopods, and all - and the results are spectacular.
Shane Jiraiya Cummings, OzHorrorScope
All in all I give The Spiraling Worm a rave. Two skilled authors at the height of their mythos story telling power give us the Lovecraftian smash of the summer. See if it doesn't keep you reading way past your bedtime, like me. Highly recommended! Can't wait for the sequel!
Matthew T Carpenter, Amazon.com
Mr Conyers and Sunseri have a unique and dynamic writing style, forming fast-paced, globetrotting adventures with such an ease of transition that their stories read like the best of action/adventure movies with the insane horrors of the Mythos as their evil backdrop . . . . Read this collection and be introduced to a gruesome, exciting world of espionage and evil. The Cthulhu Mythos never looked so good.
Glynn Barrass, Amazon.com
Conyers weaves a tale of horror, intrigue and action into a rivetting tale that will keep you turning the page. Just don't do it after dark!
Phil Kernick, Amazon.com
A must read for anyone who wants a page turning book that keeps you guessing right up to the final condemning page. Bravo. I can't wait for the next one to come out!
David Kernot, Amazon.com
Made of Meat
Conyers doesn't write mythos stories for their own sake; the trappings are always at the service of clever plotting, believable character development, snappy dialogue and tightly written action scenes.
Matthew T Carpenter, Amazon.com
Disturbingly cool. This story has some great imagery and is told very well. The transition between points of view seldom seems awkward and gives us a complete take on what is happeneing while no single character ever knows. Great job.
Joshua Goudreau, author of Cities of Androscoggin: Out of the Shadows
Impossible Object
This story has a sense of alienness running through it arising from the descriptions and influence of the object and the city. It is the most introspective story in the collection but also the most atmospheric. The revelation Peel has at the end of the story is brilliant and creepy in its implications.
Shane Jiraiya Cummings, OzHorrorScope
Very cool concept, and a fun, disturbing read.
Christopher M. Cevasco Editor/Publisher of Paradox: The Magazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction
A genuinely eerie menace pervades Conyers's take on the Mythos in this neat little peephole view of a host of colossal mysteries. More, please . . .
Cody Goodfellow, author of Radiant Dawn & Ravenous Dusk
Tautly written, suspenseful and an edgy ending. Definitely worth a few rereads!
Matthew T Carpenter, Amazon.com
False Containment
Well David Conyers does it again. "False Containment" is marvelous, maybe the best story in the book . . . All in all a very impressive effort! I hope that Mr. Conyers is planning a great deal more mythos fiction.
Matthew Carpenter, Amazon.com
This is a fantastic story . . . Conyers throws us an interesting twist at the end. Definitely a swift story with an engaging plot...
John W. Oliver, Amazon.com
Like a Delta Green scenario mixed with elements from a sci-fi B-Movie, but even better than that paltry description suggests.
James Ambuehl, Editor of The Tsathoggua Cycle and Hardboiled Cthulhu
Some of the highlights of the anthology include . . . "False Containment" by David Conyers, has a fun and unique blend of wormholes, radioactive waste, government agents, time travel, and an ever-growing flesh devouring monster.
Chris Welch, A Hellnotes Review
I can think of three stories, though, where I finished reading but could not stop thinking about the story; . . . "False Containment" (the last of which has left me with images that I'm afraid I'll never be free of). When the horror is so gripping that you can not continue reading but you cannot stop thinking, then you have read a rare crafting of language and imagination. In my mind, that is high praise.
Alexander Scott, Amazon.com
Conyers has yet to disappoint me as a Mythos fan and this story just adds to that . . . [False Containment] builds tension and then relives that tension, not through resolution, but by unsettling the reader. All in all, it stands out as a good piece of work.
Steven Marc Harris, Thousand-Faced Moon
The Spiraling Worm
This was the longest story in the book and the culmination of some pretty remarkable story telling, as two talented authors combine their skills and characters.
Matthew T Carpenter, Amazon.com
Conyers weaves a tale of horror, intrigue and action into a rivetting tale that will keep you turning the page. Just don't do it after dark!
Phil Kernick, Amazon.com
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