Twisted Tales with Twisted Endings

Bloody Twine #7 is here!

The seventh book in the series is here! The original Bundle #7 is now for sale in eBook, paperback, and hardback. Check out the sample in my Books section!
Latest story up:

UNBOUND
JAN 10TH: HANDHELD TRANSCEIVER 14: You don’t need to. You’ll occasionally come across a WAND, something that’s definitely not ours. Just catalogue it in Room 1. That’s the WAND room.
JAN 10TH: HANDHELD TRANSCEIVER 81: Oooooh, that’s why there were no Matocha Publishing books in 1. I was wondering about that. There were a few books in there that were from other companies. I thought that was weird. I really was wondering about that...
Note: The image for this story was generated via artificial intelligence courtesy of OpenAI.
Read it again:

THE BOOK OF CHAINS
There was a simple wooden chair about twenty feet in front of him, but that wasn’t what held his attention. What kept his eyes locked was the corpse of a man in a grey three-piece suit sitting in that chair, the face a withered grey husk with hollowed-out eyes and wisps of white hair upon its leather-stretched skull…
Note: The image for this story was generated via artificial intelligence courtesy of OpenAI.
Latest Goblins in the Mist:

GitM: Chapter 15
So, I got a really good sketch of Jane, I contacted Happy via the Communications Extraction Language Line Crystal (technically a telephonics crystal, but because it’s enchanted with a translator, it’s now a C.E.L.L. telephonics crystal, or C.E.L.L. “phone” for short). Jenny ’ported Jane’s sketch to Happy, and then Jane and Happy got to talking…
Note: The image for this chapter was generated via artificial intelligence courtesy of Canva.com.
New: A Five-Year-Old’s Mini-Short-Horror-Story Collection!

Read all of A Five-Year-Old’s Mini-Short-Horror-Story Collection that I saved from the clutches of Tumblr. I originally posted these bite-sized mini-mentals over the course of 2022 through 2023. Check ’em out!
Latest from The Bell, the Book, and the Candle:

NORTH SPRING RIDGE
Upon the wall was a simple and crude white-chalk drawing of a fat figure with stick arms and stick legs. It had a round face and round eyes with small period-like points in them for pupils, and its smile was a wide slash filled with sharp teeth. It wore a crudely drawn baker’s hat, and in its right stick hand was a large butcher knife. The words “Have you seen the Muffin Man?” were written in large white-chalk letters next to it…
Author’s Note: The picture for this story was generated via artificial intelligence courtesy of SendFame.com and modified courtesy of Canva.com.
New short horror stories will be available periodically. For newer stories, click on Your Bundle of Fear in the menu. For older stories, click on Bundle Archives in the menu. Check the Index for any particular story title you may wish to read.
Goblins in the Mist is a comedy/fantasy/horror that will have new chapters available periodically. To read the incredible research of Skippinus Parsnip Willowfluff on the elusive Goblinicus Cowardicius, just click on Goblins in the Mist in the menu.
The Bell, the Book, and the Candle series is a brutal, brutal adult horror series set in a post-nuclear war monster apocalypse. Six-year-old Maria is the world’s last hope, and her guardian against both people and monsters is the one and only legendary Spring-Heeled Jack. You can check out this series in The Bell, the Book, and the Candle Series selection in the menu.
For new writers wishing to learn where to start when writing horror, click on the How to Write Short Horror series of posts I’ve written.
The Books category will display all of my finished books for sale. Check ’em out!
If you really want to hear me rant about writing related topics…well…there’s the Writing Rants category.
The Book Reviews category has all my reviews of indie short horror collections. Hopefully, this will promote independent authors of short horror.
The Quick and Easy Guide to Writing Genre Fiction is now available for free on this site! Thinking of writing your own tale of love, redemption, and heroics? Writing genre fiction is an art, and The Quick and Easy Guide to Writing Genre Fiction provides the building blocks for being successful in this art. Learn all of the necessary techniques to get yourself started with writing in your chosen genre. Whether you’re writing a mystery, a romance, a thriller, science-fiction, horror, fantasy, or any other genre, you’ll have the foundation for writing great stories right here at your fingertips in this guide.
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