Hope lies crippled in nightmarish brambles.

In this haunting collection of dark speculative short fiction, twisted lives are contorted beyond recognition in pursuit of tragic dreams of freedom. Youthful abandon burns eternally, feeding a carnival in the polar night. A young inventor seeks a peaceful end to slavery, and inspires a bloody genocide. A quest for justice trades one soul for another as a gambler learns the cost of dealing with entities hungry for more than coin.

From supernatural suspense to dystopian science fiction, these stories peel back the thin veil of reality to reveal what lurks beneath—be it demonic, digital, or disturbingly human.

Fans of the strange, creepy and unexpected will find themselves at home in these pages, where every tale is a trap and every ending, a reckoning.

Step inside. The shadows are waiting.

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