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    Goldstruck
    Goldstruck
    Goldstruck
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    Goldstruck

    By Gary Kuyper

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    Alchemy is the procedure whereby base metals such as lead or brass are turned into gold.

    Horror and Fantasy meet head on in this intriguing story about the terrible power that gold can wield over mortal man.

    It is only inevitable that greed, deception and murder will follow in the wake of successful alchemy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGary Kuyper
    Release dateAug 18, 2011
    ISBN9781466010666
    Goldstruck
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    Gary Kuyper

    Gary Kuyper began his professional literary career writing self-help and general interest articles for Daan Retief Publishers who produced a monthly book for their woman’s club called Woman’s Forum. These articles would sometimes require research and had titles as diverse as The Human Brain and Body Painting!Being a professional photographer on a part-time basis Gary has also managed to have his articles on photography (With accompanying photographs) published in books and magazines. He has also done some free-lance photography and photojournalism projects for numerous local newspapers.Over the past four years he has constantly managed to be one of the top finalists in the Nova Short Story Competition (A competition for budding writers of science fiction and/or fantasy).Last year (2009) Gary had the pleasure of seeing The Devil's Little Tadpoles grace the pages of the local SF & Fantasy Fanzine Probe.He is an avid film buff and amateur film maker. A few years ago I managed to take first prize in the SA Ten Best Film Makers Competition with a short film entitled The Crimson Cobra - An action-packed martial arts / superhero movie using some of the very talented local artists.He is a qualified prosthetics make-up artist and has used this talent on both amateur and professional productions. He has also appeared on television in a youth program especially made for enlightening people in the art of special effects make-up.Gary has a rather excellent general knowledge being not only an avid writer but reader of any material that is able to stimulate him cerebrally.He taught himself Adobe Photoshop and has become adapt and proficient enough at utilizing the software to such a degree that he has managed to sell a number of creations to various institutes and organizations. He is particularly fond of a logo designed for the Krazy Mug Coffee Shop and several covers that have graced the front of Probe.Gary has a vast knowledge of music and has appeared on the local Television Music Quiz Show Note for Note where he was able to win a substantial amount of prize money.In 2008 he entered the SF / Fantasy Mini Radio Play Competition and took first prize with his The Adventures of Captain Max Power of the Intergalactic Police - an obvious homage to the early Flash Gordon radio series’. A number of skilled professionals are now planning to produce Max to CD and have it aired on a local radio station (SAfm).All his literary and photojournalistic accomplishments have been done on a part-time basis due to the fact that his full time career is lecturing mathematics as well as engineering science at a Technical College. Although this is a most fulfilling profession, it has long been Gary's ideal to become a full-time writer – especially of fantasy, science fiction and horror novels.He has recently published his first full-length fantasy novel - The Chronicles of Baltrath: The DARK WIZARDS.As a considerable amount of time and effort has been expended in building the world of Baltrath, Gary has begun work on a sequel to The Dark Wizards.

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      Book preview

      Goldstruck - Gary Kuyper

      GOLDSTRUCK

      FANTASY HORROR

      By

      Gary Kuyper

      This is a first edition

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author

      Copyright © Gary van Nikkelen Kuyper 2011

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people living or dead, events or locales, is entirely coincidental

      Smashwords Edition

      ISBN 1 46624 619 7

      DEDICATION

      For my cousin, Wayne Kuyper

      Goldstruck

      It was late and raining hard when the hooded horseman galloped into Doctor Zadnost’s cobbled courtyard. The rider hastily tethered the horse to the hitching post before moving towards the large, thick, oak door. If not for the door’s sturdiness it would surely have splintered off its hinges by the cloaked man’s frantic bashing.

      In God’s name open up! he shouted. I need a doctor before it is too late! After some more shouting and banging the door swung open to reveal a thin pale man dressed in his pale nightclothes, and carrying a single lit candle on a saucer. The hooded man pushed past the ashen figure and said, Wake your master and be quick about it! I have desperate need of his services this night!

      "I am the doctor, said the pale man angrily as he cupped the flame against the storm. He pushed the door closed with his foot and slid the bolt in. I stay alone. I live alone. And I do all my work without the need of any lazy, long-fingered assistants! You obviously don’t stay in these parts or you would have known that!"

      Forgive me! I meant no disrespect. I am from a village about two hours from here; two hours of very hard riding. I almost lamed my steed in getting to you. I was ….

      Is your wife about to give birth? asked the doctor interrupting.

      What? asked the man removing his cape and hood. He was a handsome man in his late twenties. "No! He shook his long blonde hair. It is I that desperately need your services."

      That is a relief, growled the doctor. I was thinking I had to go out in this terrible storm. He looked the blonde man up and down. He was neatly dressed in a frilled, long-sleeved shirt. He wore thin black leather gloves. There was a gold ring on one of the gloved fingers of the left hand. You don’t seem very ill to me? If you’ve gotten me out of my bed in the middle of the night because the cold weather has made you sneeze once too often…?

      Trust me, doctor, said the man raising his palm. This is a very serious matter of life and very possibly death. I could not trust myself to that butcher

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