Publisher's Synopsis
Tone poems and nightmare fuel is a blog on WordPress. It's a genre page on Facebook, but most of all it's about storytelling. Think of us as a modern day Grimms book of fairy tales with a horror edge. Think of us as a contemporary Twilight zone in less than a thousand words. This volume contains twenty horrifying and mind-bending tales. A Woman has the ability to clone herself asexually in HIVE. A Young Man meets his literary hero in Ernest Hemingway, while at lunch Hemingway composes a fabled story in six words in URBAN LEGEND. Two Boys decide to try a spell from the Book of Games you should not play in HIDE AND SEEK WITH THE DEVIL.Humanity has perished. A family robot copes with the death of his creator. In LIVING MEMORY. A family buys a new home in the country. Their caretaker cautions them not to open the front door before the BREAK OF DAWN. A child will be taken, if the child is under ten and if it's ALL HOLLOWS EVE IN DARKWATER BAY. When a Young Girl is introduced to her new home, she discovers that she knows every inch of it, which she saw in a dream. She senses evil buried in DEJA VU.While at his lake home a man hears the most beautiful music. It leads him to a MYSTERY BOX at the bottom of the lake. A bullied young Boy walks along the beach and discovers a octopus wallowing in the sand. But this is no ordinary sea creature. In OCEAN FRIENDSOn his deathbed a wealthy businessman implores his nurse to meet his estranged son and produce and HEIR. They were both nine years old, twins separated by five minutes. Both had lovely vermillion hair, cute freckled faces complete with Cyan eyes. Identical in almost every way in physical appearance. Except that Melanie, the older was dead. In SISTERSUpon waking a young man hears strange noises emanating from downstairs, meanwhile his entire family is missing in CRIME CHRONICLES As the townspeople head to work, they make a grisly discovery near the train station in the town of EERIEOn his birthday a young man is given the chance to live forever. However there is a catch in THE CAKE OF ETERNAL YOUTHMs Louis is awakened by her sister and told there is a fire. Only problem is her sister is dead in MRS LOUIS
