About Morgan Jay Rapley
Inspired by some of his favourite authors (including Douglas Adams, Stephen King, Brian Lumley, Dean R. Koontz and Robert Ludlum), Morgan spent much of his free time during University writing short stories, while studying degrees in Education and Drama.
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With a collection of bite-sized pieces completed, Morgan began planning and working on what will one day be his epic series, The Mythikal, and continued to write other story concepts and poetry in the background for some time.
Recently, with the Mythikal series sitting partly developed and slowly growing in the background, and with fresh poetry being written regularly, Morgan spent part of his cancer and chemotherapy journey working on two snuff horror novels back to back:
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Jericho Pallas - and - Slater's Creek
August, 2021
Check out the first major work by Morgan Jay Rapley. Jericho Pallas, set in the early 900's, this work follows the tale of a young boy possessed, and explores his fate at the hands of his small village and later the monks that took him in...
Following swiftly on the heels of Jericho Pallas comes Slater's Creek, a modern story of a family and two close friends who move together to a small town, and soon realise they've stepped into a place where danger wears a familiar face...
Click here to check them out!
What the heck is
Snuff Horror?
Snuff Horror is a subgenre of horror novels, where (unlike in snuff films where the subject is of a real death) it is not only acceptable but common for favourite characters - or even most of the leads in the story - to succumb to dark forces/evil/death, regularly with an ending that defies conventions of 'happy endings' and often results in the villian/antagonist or a follower surviving to commit further atrocities.
In the works...
With all going to plan, next will be the novel Quaint, set in outback Australia: Andy, Mallory and Charlie are moving from the Gold Coast to Perth for a new opportunity, but problems arise deep in the outback desert and soon the family find themselves in a more dangerous environment than simply the desert itself...
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No more details are released at this stage except that the process has begun, bones have been written and the prologue has started...
In other news, The Mythikal series - a supernatural tale of werewolves and vampires and man, embroiled in struggle, a tale of rebirth and rejuvination - is sitting in mid-production stage. Books one through three are in second draft phase, and the final three books are yet to be written. Planning has changed over the years, and amendments are to be made to the first half of the series to align with the new ending plans. Work is due to continue on these books once Quaint is complete.
