Robert Edward Henkle takes a book from the trembling hands of his dying grandfather. An ancient leather-bound volume. Rumored a first printing— perhaps even the property of Edgar Allan Poe himself. Can Robert escape his own dark-shadowed past, or will the vivid and hideous longing stirred up by the book draw him ever deeper into the lost tales of the master?
Published with bonus story "The Hands of the Phantom."
* A tale of dark contemporary fantasy by Unter Grimschrund.
Unter Grimschrund writes tales of speculation and mystery with a proclivity for the dark side. His favorite writers include H.P Lovecraft, Dean Koontz, Edgar Allen Poe, J.G. Ballard, and Franz Kafka. He lives in the great brooding gloam of the Pacific Northwest with his wife and children, under supervision of the proper authorities and mental health professionals, of course.
His fiction has been professionally published under another pen name.
If you liked this story, you might also like these other stories by Unter Grimschrund:
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* A Criminal of the Near Future
* Crossroads
* More titles coming soon.