Bedding the Lamia
Tropical Horrors
David Kuraria is your guide as you push through drenched tropical foliage in the torrential downpour. In these tales we see a Melanesian farmer seeking land rights from a dominant tribe. Bearing gifts of persuasion, the farmer finds that the tribes gods might first need appeasing. An artist experimenting with narcotics and obscure occult methods inadvertently solicits an unwelcome muse. A group of holidaymakers travel up a Northern Australian River on a converted war barge. Here brutal colonial past reaches out to ensnare them on a journey into horror.
David Kuraria was born on the island of Ranongga in the Solomon Islands. He attended Kingsland Intermediate school in Auckland New Zealand before reuniting with his family in the Solomons capital, Honiara. Kopura Rising is David's third published story and is one of a trilogy of tales describing a malign, hidden marine-dwelling race named Kopura. Currently the author is employed in habitat protection by the Honiara Department of Fisheries.
