Welcome to Bloody Twine Presents #4! BT Presents #4 features Bad House, a novelette published within Bloody Twine #2.
In this terrifying tale of unbelievable cruelty set in the early ’80s, an eccentric millionaire, Helmuth Wolf, invites a group of young and attractive women to his mansion for a mystery-shrouded soirée on a secluded island. This secretive soirée occurs once a year, every year, in early spring. Natalie Schreiber, a dedicated and business-driven reporter, takes the place of one of these invitees in order to get the real story behind these gatherings and to find out what really happens to the young women who attend them.
Here’s an excerpt:
Bad House
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?
He was tall and imposing, with a stiff expression upon his handsome face, dark eyes upon him, with neatly-short-cut black hair and a stern poise to his thin lips. He held an aura about him that suggested power, something more than wealth, and Nattie took that into consideration, because she was going to have to siphon some information from him later on about Gracie, though she doubted he would remember her. Even so, she had made a promise to Sheila that she would dig up that information, and she intended to keep that promise, ruthless as this business was…
Average Read Time: 59m 21s
Imagine walking into an abandoned storage room filled with old newspapers and magazines, all articles stacked in bundles neatly tied with twine, but then you discover other bundles, bundles not so neatly tied, ragged bundles of yellowed and partially-charred paper tied in bloodstained twine.
You see, some stories are meant to educate, and some stories are meant to entertain, but some stories…some stories are simply looking for a victim.
Enjoy.