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    A Flash Of Doom
    A Flash Of Doom
    A Flash Of Doom
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    A Flash Of Doom

    By Costa Koutsoutis

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    He is wizard, scholar, detective, and more. The greatest purveyor of mystic energies to stalk the land battling the dark forces, Sir Ian Quarry is a sorcerer like no other. No threat exists in the dark shadows of the hidden realms that he cannot defeat...or is there?

    "A Flash of Doom" is a collection of the shorts "The Secret of the Pact," "The Dadealus Affair," and "The Mystery of the Mysteries," plus the script to "The Babylon Gold," an issue of the long-lost Ian Quarry comic series!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCosta Koutsoutis
    Release dateJul 23, 2013
    ISBN9781301600069
    A Flash Of Doom
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    Costa Koutsoutis

    Constantine "Costa" Koutsoutis is a writer and cartoonist who lives and works in New York City. He spends his time cooking, drinking coffee, playing with the cat, and watching movies with his girlfriend. A writer since he was little, he's been doing fiction, nonfiction, comics (as writer and artist), essays, zines, blogs, "real" journalism, and even web content stuff since he was in college for others to read. Costa always enjoys hearing from readers, so reach out, say hi.

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      A Flash Of Doom - Costa Koutsoutis

      A FLASH OF DOOM

      ~

      A Sir Ian Quarry, Supranatural Investigator collection, Smashwords Edition

      By Costa Koutsoutis

      © copyright constantine koutsoutis 2013

      cover c/o the author

      Detective. Alchemist. Explorer. Wizard.

      Ian Athos Ptolemy Aristotle Quarry, Knight of the Order, is all of these, and more.

      ~∞~

      The Adventures of Ian Quarry is an online comic/fiction series and the only place to find the varied and unbelievable tales of Sir Ian Quarry. Presented here are, thanks to the recovery of various publications from Griffonstone Finest Pulp Publishing LTD, the authorized and approved autobiographers of Sir Quarry, his adventures told in fiction and sequential art form.

      Recovered from a box of half-rotting pulp magazines found in the basement of the home of the grandfather of a retired SAS operative living in Boca Raton, Florida, USA and nestled between dog-eared copies of Elegant Nude Ladies of the Lane, these tales are presented here in their original forms, as best as recovery and restoration has allowed.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      AUTHOR’S NOTE - p.4

      THE SECRET OF THE PACT – p.5

      THE DADAELUS AFFAIR – p.12

      THE MYSTERY OF THE MYSTERIES – p.20

      THE BABYLON GOLD SCRIPT – p.27

      THANKS – p.37

      FOREWARD BY THE AUTHOR PERSON | JULY 2103

      -

      ‘Sup.

      It’s been a while, I know. I’ve been promising Ian Quarry stuff for a few years now and not much has surfaced due to circumstances beyond our control.

      However, I really wanted people to get a chance to read these stories, inspired by my love of pulp, the idea of secret history, and human innovation. In case it’s not obvious, my love of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic character Sherlock Holmes is a huge influence here, as well as Bram Stoker’s vampiric Dracula. I’d have to say that overall, the whole of epistolary storytelling is a major influence here, a field that I think needs more recognition and one I was lucky enough to be introduced to in college.

      Anyway, here are the stories, plus a special treat, the unfinished script for THE BABYLON GOLD, an Ian Quarry comic adventure I feel like sharing.

      I had a point for this Author’s Note about managing to turn leftovers into completed projects, but I lost it. Hope you like reading them as much as I liked writing them, they’re probably the most fun I had writing something and I remember fondly laughing every time I hit SAVE.

      Enjoy.

      -Costa

      PUBLISHER’S NOTE; The following pages were several of a large bundle mailed to your esteemed publisher’s office recently, along with instructions to publish the story as we see fit, [f]or the good of mankind and future generations. When we reached out to our client, Sir Quarry, he asked to review them before allowing for them to be published in any way. The following day, this was all that remained of Sir Quarry’s edits, as he proclaimed within our offices, quite loudly, that some secrets are meant to be kept, no matter what the lesson, lest there be those who refuse to learn. Thus edited and partially redacted, we, Griffonstone Finest Pulp Publishing, LTD, present to you this story, the latest in our series of adventures regarding Ian Quarry.

      ________________________________________________________________

      ******* the **th, the Year of Our Lord 18**

      From the diary of ******************************

      ~

      At long last, after over ____ years, I can sleep with a clear mind finally. For that, I must write.

      I had long since come to accept my inevitable fate ever since that night all those years ago in the basement of ______________________ when, like the foolish youth we were, we sealed our doom in the pursuit of the most dangerous of prizes, knowledge and power. However, I must re-open my diary after

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