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Exploring dark alleys. Discovering new nightmares.
Revisiting the masters.
Jack Wrexall leaves his Heybridge home on a warm summer day - only to be embroiled in the sinister machinations of fungal antagonists.
Blackwater by Byron Black is a flash fiction nightmare centered around a young man named Jack. The story is similar in style to a Lovecraft tale, with the character's sanity slipping away in a countryside setting facing what appears to be a cult, as well as other mythos elements, but Black's idea of horror has limited interaction with the events presented within.
I think this story would be better in a longer format, with further character development and more intense action. However, Black does deliver the cosmicism.
As always,
AstraDaemon
Into the Astral Lands is a cosmic horror short story centering around one man's struggle to keep his humanity while he fights to escape the gaze of entities that seem to exist beyond the confines of time and reality. Can Adam hold onto his sanity, or will he lose his wife, child, livelihood, and sense of self to the Astral Lands?
Into the Astral Lands by Eric Malikyte is a Lovecraft-styled short story, filled with despair, confusion and tentacles. Adam is the main character who comes to realize he's not only lost control of his life, but he has also ceased to be the center of his own universe.
The author mixes cosmic terror with metaphysical monstrosities to unravel and terrorize Adam's grasp of reality. While humanity thinks of itself as top of the food chain, Malikyte shows readers how fragile the human mind really is with Adam's journey into the astral lands.
As always,
AstraDaemon
