The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal
Green Men World
A story too secret, too terrifying—and too shockingly intimate—for Victorian eyes.
A note to the Editor
Dear Henry,
I have been Simon Feximal’s companion, assistant and chronicler for twenty years now, and during that time my Casebooks of Feximal the Ghost-Hunter have spread the reputation of this most accomplished of ghost-hunters far and wide.
You have asked me often for the tale of our first meeting, and how my association with Feximal came about. I have always declined, because it is a story too private to be truthfully recounted, and a memory too precious to be falsified. But none knows better than I that stories must be told.
So here is it, Henry, a full and accurate account of how I met Simon Feximal, which I shall leave with my solicitor to pass to you after my death.
I dare say it may not be quite what you expect.
Robert Caldwell
September 1914
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Cover art by Kanaxa
Narrated by Gary Furlong
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Occult horrors and death throughout.
“From a macabre butterfly obsession to a demented Pied Piper to the very human enemy bent upon destroying our Mr. Caldwell, KJ Charles has mined the depths of imagination to come up with another outstanding novel to add to her body of work. One can only imagine there are more stories Robert Caldwell had to tell, but he saved the best of them for this collection, ensuring the novel’s place as one of the best I’ll read in 2015.”
“KJ Charles ruins everything. ... you should absolutely not read this book or any other book by Charles without first having a long list of other equally astonishingly good books to stave off the inevitable realization that you’ll never read anything else this good ever again. Consider yourself warned.”
“This novel combines romance with paranormal fear and humour perfectly, as illustrated by this line –’Occasionally, when one looks into the pit, the pit looks back. Sometimes it winks.’ It’s a lovely mix of Nietzsche, Poe, and pure K.J. Charles.”
“This collection of stories covering the work, lives and love of Simon Feximal and Robert Cadwell connected together to create something greater than the sum of its parts. It’s one of my favourites by KJ Charles because for me it evoked a haunted, beautiful and hopeful kind of feeling.
There was beauty in the hard-fought for love they had for each other. There was this undertone of melancholy for the sacrifices, the darkness in their world, the traumas and the price of their work. However, there was also this hope in their endurance. It left me contemplative in the best way after reading and these two and their adventures together will stay with me for a long time.”
