I’ll be at Anomaly Con in Denver this weekend, signing books, shaking hands, and kissing babies!  Come swing by!  Christine will play you a song.

PDT3: In Darkness Clockwork Shine, Buy it now at this CreateSpace eStore!

Or on Amazon!  Penny Dread Tales Volume III!

Available for the first time!  The Dirges of Percival Lewand, is a steampunk horror story about the history of the player piano, and how it relates to a certain British serial killer who enjoyed himself greatly the autumn of 1888.

“The Dirges of Percival Lewand was the best short story I have ever read in a critique group. I know Aaron Michael Ritchey will go far with this one.”
–Angie Hodapp of the Kristin Nelson Literary Agency

More about Penny Dread Tales:

In this tome, the third installment of the Penny Dread Tales series, we explore not only the darker side of steampunk but also the black, sullied underbelly of the human condition. The nightmare of Jack the Ripper stalks these pages… drenching them in blood… twice. Slavery, the murder of the weak and helpless, dire choices of life and death: these tragedies and more become fodder for the mind, where the possessed and dispossessed steal men’s lives, and in some cases, their souls.

This volume is rich with shadowy settings shrouded in fog, and the ensuing brutality is glimpsed piecemeal through windows of moonlight where dark shadows hide nefarious villains plotting murder and mayhem upon unsuspecting victims.

PDT3 carries the reader to the four corners of the Earth and beyond. It traverses the centuries, from the Victorian era all the way into a future 40,000 years distant. It is an exploration of mankind’s darkest dreams and nightmares, and in its reading you too may experience nightmares where might In Darkness Clockwork Shine.

Learn more about the Penny Dread series and purchase the first two volumes on RuneWright.com