Rob Harman is Back!

 (Rob Harman gives us a look into his second story in the anthology, titled "Fame Immortal")

'Dad, what does the Devil look like?' I'd asked at a tender age.

'He's dirty, shabby and angry,' he'd replied without hesitation,  'think of him as a mad tramp.' 

This had been deeply disappointing since I'd recently had my first taste of Hammer horrors and their TransAtlantic cinematic rivals, where I'd imagined him to be a suave, witty, urbane gentleman like Christopher Lee or Vincent Price. Naturally my Father's perception of Satan had been formed by his own  upbringing in London's East End, a place reduced to rubble by the Luftwaffe and still struggling under rationing. Later, I too was to reimagine a more realistic vision of "Old Nick".

And so onward with my story where we revisit the myth of Faust and the infernal deal he seals. Should it intimidate me to  follow in the cloven footsteps of Literary giants such as Christopher Marlowe, Wolfgang Von Goethe, Thomas Mann, Clive Barker and (an especial personal favourite) Peter Cook? Possibly. But are we all not a mere signature away from our own diabolical bargain? Just beware always of the small print since, as they say, the Devil is all too often in the detail.    

       

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Rob Harman spent a number of years in a succession of increasingly peculiar jobs which proved thrilling, sometimes horrific and occasionally hilarious, all factors he attempts to wrangle into his writing. His first novel, The Donors (a jet black comedy based on the seven deadly sins), was published under the pseudonym Fabio Bordino, with his real name credited as Editor.