An update on our initial launch of ODM #0 a couple of weeks ago, when only .pdf was available. Today we have download links for both .epub and .mobi formats. And we offer not only tons of our usual occult detective stories, but a dark and fabulous Inspector Philemon mystery, a reprint donated by the rather well-known Mr Mike Carey – ‘We’ll Always Have Paris’…
WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS I will take the trouble to set this out for you, because I feel it’s important that you understand. I must ask you to listen and to refrain from asking questions while I speak. I believe the most pertinent issues between us will be very clearly explained in the course of my story. If at the end of it you still find yourself puzzled, unclear as to why you are about to die, then in that respect and that respect alone you will have good reason to reproach me. In the 14th arrondissement of the city, close to the Brooklyn Bridge and the Alhambra, there is – or used to be; it is hard to be categorical – a patisserie whose terrace looks out directly onto the Seine. It had been my custom ever since I found the place to have a breakfast croissant there, watching the lazily ambling waters of the river while the particulars of the cases on which I was currently working flowed through my brain with a similar lack of haste or direction. This ritual had afforded me many valuable insights, and I had come to rely on it more and more in these recent times of turbulence and irreplaceable loss. So naturally, this was where the latest body had been found...
If you didn’t see our previous announcement, this is a bumper new issue – over 100,000 words – featuring both unpublished stories and reprints new to the magazine’s pages, all generously offered by some terrific authors to promote the magazine. None of these tales have appeared in ODM before, and one or two are otherwise hard to find.
ODM #0 is completely FREE as a thank you to loyal readers over the last few years, and – for newcomers – as a taste of what the magazine does. This special issue includes stories by:
- Mike Carey
- Sam L Edwards
- Joshua M Reynolds
- Bev Allen
- Paul Finch
- Willie Meikle
- E J Stevens
- I A Watson
- Jilly Paddock
- John Linwood Grant
- Mike Chinn
- Adrian Cole
- Rosemary Pardoe
Plus a host of non-fiction articles and reviews by G W Thomas, Tim Prasil, Dave Panchyk, and Dave Brzeski. With art by Autumn Barlow, Adam Benet Shaw and Enrique Meseguer.
ODM #0 is now available at no cost in .mobi and .epub formats.
A limited edition print edition may follow later.
FREE DIRECT DOWNLOAD OF THE FULL ISSUE
