Darker Days: A Collection of Dark Fiction

This collection of dark speculative tales will lead the reader on a roller coaster ride through the unknown where things arent always what they seem. Now that youve warmed by the embers submerse in darker days. The author of the short story collections These Old Tales Fresh Cut Tales andEmbers presents Darker Days: A Collection of Dark Fiction. In his youth Cain developed a sense of wonderment owed in part to TV shows like The Twilight Zone The Outer Limits One Step Beyond and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Now Cain seeks the same dark overtones in his writing. Theres a little something for every reader within this collection. These 26 short speculative stories arise from a void escaping shadows that ebb and weave through minds like worms planting the larvae that live just under the skin thriving upon fear. These are Cains darker days. In this collection Cain features stories from the Old West of past lives and future days the living and the dead new and unique monsters as well as fresh takes on those of lore. Once more he tackles themes of loss and grief and the afterlife always exploring the greater unknown. In The Sanguine Wars Cain takes us to a future war where soldiers are made to endure the horrors of war. He explores the complexities of global warming and what lengths men and women alike sink to in The Reassignment Project. And as often is the case he ends on a lighter note with Lennys New Eyes and A Very Different Sort of Apocalypse. When the darkness comes embrace it. Let it wrap you up in cold. Dont worry its not your time...yet. Table of Contents: A Ring For His Own Heirloom Rust Colored Rain Prey Passing Time What Mama Needs My Brother Bit Your Honor Roll Student Outcasts: The Sick and Dying 1 - Henry Wentworth The Sanguine Wars The Hunted Her Living Corals Puppet Strings The Trying of Master William By The Crescent Moon Mantid The Underside of Time and Space Outcasts: The Sick and Dying 2 - Gemma Nyle The Griffon Adaptable When They Come The Reassignment Project Presage One Hopeless Night by a Clan Fire Lennys New Eyes Outcasts: The Sick and Dying 3 - Anna Kilpatrick A Very Different Sort of Apocalypse Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing--Tales from the Darkest Depths.