Mathias Speckman could hear the howl of the dogs of hell. So watch your six, I will see you at Check Point Charlie. This clocks in at 1,800 words almost three times what I normally post here but it still only three pages so I hope it doesn’t overwhelm you. I used it as an inperation piece when writing this story. The photo I attached to this is Stephen Powers in a publicity shot for The Girl from UNCLE. So one of the ways I address it is make the lead a heroine who has complete control of her own sexuality.

It comes out of the sick and damaged mind of Ian Fleming. I love Eurospy novels and movies, but one thing that always bothered me was this whole James bond, philosophy that women want to be raped. Also I do believe that Nazi occultism has been exaggerated it is a mainstay of cult conspiracies and pop culture, just look at The Morning of the Magicians or Hellboy. In the Cold War area it is hard to overstate how the memory and sins of WWII keep popping up, with things like rats lines and OPERATION:PAPERCLIP. In some ways Nazi’s make the perfect bad guys, you can kill them off in lots of terrible ways and no one complains. With the Spector of real Nazism in the US, raising its head. If I had written it now I might not have made the bad guy a Nazi. Let’s face it the whole age of MAD is an analogy for Cosmic Horror.

I am surprised there are not more Cold war Horror stories.

It’s been done before sometimes very well like Charles Stross’ A Colder War or terribly in such things like the Soviet psychic in the fourth Indiana Jones movie. To me the Cold War and the supernatural go together like peanut butter and chocolate. It was going to be part of a bigger project that never quite got off the ground. I’ve been recently working on some cold war supernatural stories and I drug this one that I did over a year ago out. The Wild Hunt: A Cold War Supernatural Thriller.

A colder war charles stross