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SOUL TEMPLE, a horror dark fantasy by Steven Lee Climer.
Soul Temple is an intimate horror story about a young man who’s been dogged all his life by a demon named Thoth that only he can see. Spencer Welles realizes there’s more than just Thoth at work around him. His life has been protected by an angel — Helen — for most of his life. Helen, though, is running out of energy to protect him from Thoth and now Spencer must fight for himself.
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*** BIOGRAPHY
Steven Lee Climer lives in metropolitan Detroit, is a Ph.D. dropout of Wayne State University and a dual-graduate of Eastern Michigan University. He teaches English at Detroit College of Business, and works for one of the top 20 internet advertising firms Fry Multimedia in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Born of southern stock, Steve’s parents and family are from western Tennessee. He spent his first five years on Dog Hill before moving north, and considers himself a southern writer by cultural association. He spent most of his summers in Tennessee up until he was 16.
His short stories have appeared in the anthologies “Dark Whispers,” “Dead Promises” and “Cemetery Sonata; and over a dozen magazines, including Implosion, The Midnight Gallery, Into the Darkness, Deadbolt, Altered Perceptions and FrightNet.
His story “By Any Name a Devil” appeared in the anthology Monsters from Memphis and was named Honorable Mention in The Year’s Best Horror and Fantasy by OMNI Magazine, and recommended for nomination for a Bram Stoker Award. Steven received the Memphis Science Fiction Association’s 1998 Darrell Award for Best Mid-South Short Story “By Any Name a Devil.”
His first novel, DREAM THIEVES was published electronically by Hard Shell Word Factory, and will appear in softcover in the May 2000 from Chalice Publications. It was a finalist for Best First Novel of 1997 in the International Horror Guild Awards, and won in the Fantasy category for Under The Covers Book Reviews Best Fantasy of 1997.
His second novel “BearWalker” from Indigo Publishing was widely praised as ground-breaking and moving. Steven’s most recent novel is the critically-acclaimed “Demonesque” from DarkTales Publications.
Steve’s passion when not writing is spending time with his family and friends, working out and gardening. In May, he and his wife will become first-time parents with the adoption of a child from the People’s Republic of China.
*** REVIEWS
DEMONESQUE:
“Demonesque is diabolical
”
– Douglas Clegg, author of Halloween Man, Naomi and You Come When I Call You
“Readers will be thrilled and writers will be green with envy at how polished of a writer Climer has become. His prose is smooth and easy to read, his characters likeable and well-developed, and his dialogue crisp and realistic. It is widely agreed that Steven Lee Climer is one of the rising stars in the dark fiction world….”
– The Chiaroscuro – Those Who Walk Alone
“Part of the horror writer’s job description is wrestling with those personal demons. In Demonesque Steven Lee Climer has his in a full court press and is laughing darkly in their face.”
– Steve Savile, author of The Secret Life of Colors, and editor of Redbrick Eden.
“There is no question that Steven Lee Climer is hot right now. On his third novel, and he’s already hip-deep in nominations, honours, and awards….Pretty soon, Climer’s going to pass that ‘rising-star’ stage and hit full stardom.”
– Lisa DuMond, SF Site
DREAM THIEVES
“[Dream Thieves] is a fast paced book with urks and turns you don’t see
coming. Delightful and refreshing, it’s something new to chalk up on the
list of must-read’s.”
– FrightNet (http://www.frightnet.com)
“…Dream Thieves is a fine first novel….The book’s fantastic premise
becomes utterly believable, mainly because Grimm himself — with all his
anger, his ambition, his petty jealousies and grand hopes — is so
convincingly drawn. Climer seems to have sensed from the outset that the
character of Grimm was the single most important aspect of the book, and he
deftly delivers a thorough, thoughtful portrait of the man.
Grimm’s magical dabbling into the lives and dreams of others makes for some
unique situations, and Climer exploits them in good fashion, creating some
bizarre dream-creatures along the way. This one’s quite imaginative….*
–William Hughes, Editor and Publisher
Dread: a Magazine of the Uncanny and Grotesque
“This is a haunting work, not only for the beauty of Mr. Climer’s
incredible prose, but also for the unusual concept, the deftly drawn characters, and the mood that draws the reader deeper and deeper into the soul of Grimm. I wish I could tell you more without giving away a plot that is intricate in design, as finely carved as Grimm’s Zoltan, and imbued with an extraordinary vision. I loved it. Thank you, Mr. Climer, you have added greatly to my collection of great books. Highly Recommended!”
– Under the Covers Book Reviews
“DREAM THIEVES evokes the feeling of Lovecraftian dark fantasy. Steven Lee
Climer’s words are hauntingly poetic, his plot masterful, and his imagination seemingly unbounded.”
5 Stars! – Affaire de Coeur, June 1998
“Climer’s novel is genuine horror, told in an almost baroque style that occasionally lulls the reader into a false sense of security as the charming Bavarian landscape flows by. And yanks you back with a claw to the throat. At times, the events are so disturbing, pulling away seems the only decent action.”
~ Lisa DuMond for SF Site
BEARWALKER
“If you liked him in Dream Thieves… you’ll love him in Bearwalker. Climer
is back with a radically different tale this time, a tale of shapeshifting,
tradition, and love. He has left the Old Country behind to take on an even
older world and an ancient culture right in our own backyards, in our own
time.
Fret not — the fear remains.
Bearwalker makes good use of unusual settings and little-known beliefs to
make what could be just another werewolf story into something at once more
complex and more elemental. This is not part of the werewolf/erotic wave
that crowds the shelves in your favourite bookstore. Transients,
alcoholics, and premature infants fill out the cast; there is no room left for dashing young strangers spraying silver bullets into the crowd.
David Walking Bear is far from the romantic figure most literature and
films over the years have portrayed shapeshifters as being. With all his faults
and mistakes, he is far closer to what you might expect from a real person
trapped in such a dilemma. This is grounded horror — with its touch of
mysticism, of course — but with a hefty dose of the everyday world to
round it out. Climer doesn’t flinch at revealing that world either, even when it
is a situation we would rather turn away from than have to face and admit
that it exists.
Climer is fast moving up in the ranks of horror authors. Catch him now, and
you can say you were one of the first to realize his talent.
– Lisa DuMond — SF Site
“….wide-eyed reading….Suddenly I was trying to find my way out of a web
of weirdness and danger, made fascinating by echoes of Native American
myths….This book is highly readable….”
– Anne Valentine Martino, Ann Arbor News
/EDITOR’S NOTE: Steven Lee Climer is available for interviews/
/CONTACT: Steven Lee Climer, 734-729-8619 or sclimer@frymulti.com/
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