Welcome to our fifth issue. This time, we offer you eight tales of horror and the bizarre, a number of them connected by the thread of dark gods. Sword-and-sorcery meets horror in “The Song of Tussagaroth”, while a deity of the forest haunts a widowed man in “The Green World” and a terrible plague must be contained in “The Night We Burned Our Hearts Out”. A goddess of the Egyptian variety might be the cause of a strange infestation in …
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Like warm breath that’s exhaled and evaporates in winter was Annie’s life. She came and was gone. But what an amount of happiness and eternity was held in that time! How can I describe to someone who hasn’t felt the intensity of true, unselfish love, and hasn’t met her, how I felt? Like a lightning bolt that flashes across a dark sky was Annie’s love and …
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It was halfway through the fierce winter of 1942 when the monsters came to Blackwater. They came silently. No one in the sleepy fishing town even noticed their presence until the first body washed up on the unforgiving beach. Even then, some people said that the fisherman’s death was probably just an accident, one of those things. You always get people like that. People who refuse to believe …
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In my life, I have fought with both sword and pen. With the former, I helped storm the last citadels of the Onyx Empire and brought to an end the wars that had plagued the continent of Jendia for too many centuries. With the latter, I have sought to shine light into the dark places of mankind’s knowledge and to seek answers as to the nature of this …
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Even from back here, I felt the heat rising. Calling to me. Burning the fine hairs on my arm to a crisp. I saw the northern tower fall, crumbling, burning. “We’re trouble, through and through.”
Galik opened his eyes. “You’re trouble. Brother, you’re trouble. Me? I’m good as gold. Kind-hearted.”
Galik was good as gold, but only when he was Galik. When he was Mercer, he was different. …
