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**Hot Wheels — The Spectral Detective: Into Darkness, Chapter 12**
Blinded and gravely wounded, Captain Arthur King drifts between consciousness and a strange new reality.
As his team prepares to escape Schloss Nachtgeist on captured German motorcycles, King sees things no one else can: ghosts from the castle's past, a dead soldier and spectral visions of his comrades.
With enemy forces closing in, the team races for freedom. But King's greatest battle may lie between life and death.
**A wartime escape where the supernatural becomes terrifyingly real.**
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Can science cheat death—or merely prolong the suffering of the living?
Join Arthur R. King as he explores Odin’s severed oracle, Nazi occult ideology, the horrors of wartime medical experimentation, Frankenstein’s galvanism and Soviet attempts to sustain life beyond death.
From ancient mythology to the laboratories of the twentieth century, discover the disturbing history behind The Spectral Detective.
The Secret of Living Death — a new investigation in Arthur R. King’s Mysterious World.
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Monday, 6th May 1639. Jack heard, “Midnight crossed.” Then Mary Roke: “Mistress Agnes Lewis’s labour has begun.” Two births at once—and Jack watches his own from outside his body.
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Tuesday, 3 April 1945. 23:47. A stone corridor, a glowing tank, and one chance to shield someone from the blast.
Into Darkness, Chapter 9: Blind Luck. No greater love.
Book to film, made with Grok Imagine.
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Warmth held him close and tight. Not words so much as feelings. Ideas and memories not his own.
Where two hearts marked time.
The greater beat surrounded him, steady throughout. The smaller answered from within him.
Day Born Boy — Interlude II: Before
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News: Lost Boy Jack: Born Dead is free on Kindle until Tuesday 10 November.
He was born dead… and then returned. Neither human nor vampire — Jack has to find out what he is before others decide.
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From Robert Poulin (Ghost Watch Publishing) — himself a blind author — on Into Darkness Chapter 10:
“As a blind author myself, I know how rare it is to find a hero whose blindness is written as part of his strength rather than a problem to fix. C J Charles writes him with real respect, and this chapter lands like a gut punch in the best way.”
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Alice Hampden goes into labour. The child is born alive with translucent, glass-like skin. Adler calls him a Chimera.
England, 1638. Blackthorn House. Day Born Boy is complete: fifteen parts, one contents page.
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Sunday, 5th May 1639. Two women became mothers that night. One boy lived to remember his birthday. The other died.
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Into Darkness — Interlude III: Ice in Algiers cjcharlesauthor.substack.com…
Ice in Algiers — A Spectral Detective Interlude
Between Chapters 11 and 12 of Into Darkness, a wounded Arthur King drifts between dreams and memories.
From the frozen Pyrenees to the sunlit streets of wartime Algiers, he relives the loss of a friend and a promise that death left unfulfilled.
A diamond ring, an American Army nurse, and an unexpected revelation give King another reason to fight on.
A short story of love, loss and the promises we keep.
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Fated Friday — Another Freebie Friday!
Are monsters born, made, or do they have a choice?
This week, I explore the ideas behind The Wrought World and The Spectral Detective: vampires, ghosts, science fiction, and the struggle between fate and free will.
Plus, Lost Boy Jack: Born Dead is FREE for five days, from 6–10 November!
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He was born dead… and then returned.
Lost Boy Jack: Born Dead is free on Kindle until Tuesday 10 November. After that it goes back to $0.99.
1639. Blackthorn House. Two women give birth on the same night. One child is born strong. The other is Jack.
Historical science fiction with teeth. No magic, just blood, breeding and bad weather.
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A cherry-red convertible rolls through Rio Verde on the forks of a tractor loader, raised like a flag from another age.
Some freedoms can’t be switched off.
Wheels of Change — a short story about memory, technology and who really holds the key.
A musket barked in the dim winter light. Lead cut across the coach's path.
Joan pressed her hand to her swelling belly. A hunter? She hoped. She also feared.
Atop the carriage, a grunt of pain. Then a curse.
Day Born Boy — Chapter 1: The Highway
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