Böcker av David Farren

It is the Lunar New Year 2027 in San Francisco but the familiar Lion Dance ritual is disrupted by explosions. Fran Martinet, who has already had to deal with one murder in a classic San Francisco setting, finds herself challenged to learn why she was chosen to be the Black Queen in a deadly chess game that somehow reaches back to her own childhood and a predatory priest. To do so she must avoid being taken out of play by a conspiracy of White Bishops and their pawn, a charismatic evangelist dubbed the Magic Man.

My novel Mendaga's Morning was first published as a paperback in the United Kingdom in1979. The cover rather inaccurately described it as "a super-shock novel of satanic possession--the ultimate in horror." In this book I am presenting the actual background of the novel in the occult revival of the 1960s along a short story that I wrote long afterward as a sequel I am also including a half-dozen other stories with various supernatural themes that, like the novel, present otherworldly entities not at all "satanic" but far more like the humans responsible for their existence. As a philosophy professor I have long been writing about what it means to accept or reject religious belief, and my first books approached occultism as a counterpoint to a completely materialistic view of human existence. Eventually I decided to add to the familiar tropes of occultist fiction with the idea of a demonmonger, someone able to negotiate with the gods or demons presumed to be for hire. If there is one theme running through all my stories it is the attempt to deal with love and loss defines not just our human world but also whatever lies beyond it.

A poetry collection

This collection of poems is engaging, amusing and sometimes downright hilarious. An occasional dip into nonsense provides a wonderful distraction from everyday worries! I wrote this bookSo you could lookTo see what I had written,And that in a whileYou would smileAnd with its characters you'd be smitten.