Horror at the Library!

Hamilton author David Neil Lee will be appearing at the Stamford Centre Library, 3643 Portage Rd. in Niagara Falls on Tuesday, May 21 at 6:30 p.m.

David has written a variety of books; after spending two years as a chainsaw mechanic in a small west coast town, he and his family moved to Hamilton where David researched and wrote his best-selling Chainsaws: A History. An experienced double bassist who has played gigs from Vancouver to Amsterdam, he worked with the late pianist Paul Bley on Stopping Time: Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz, and in 2014 launched The Battle of the Five Spot: Ornette Coleman and the New York Jazz Field at the New School for Public Engagement in New York City.

David’s latest project has been an epic sci-fi horror trilogy published by Hamilton’s Wolsak & Wynn Books.  In 2016, The Midnight Games won the Hamilton Arts Council’s award for the book that “best conveys the spirit of Hamilton” with its story of an east-end teenager, Nate Silva, who finds that the noisy ceremonies in the Ti-Cats’ stadium are a local cult bringing H.P. Lovecraft’s monstrous Great Old Ones back to Earth. The book’s success inspired a sequel, The Medusa Deep, and last fall David landed Nate and his cast of characters back in Hamilton and brought the trilogy to a close with The Great Outer Dark.

David Lee will be celebrating his trilogy's long-awaited completion, talking about its background and creation, and reading from the last book, The Great Outer Dark at the Stamford Centre Library, 3643 Portage Rd. in Niagara Falls on Tuesday, May 21 at 6:30 p.m.