Dear Reader,
The book you have chosen recounts the stories of woe. Of all books to cite unhappy endings, these stories may very well be the most miserable yet. The book you are holding in your hands tells the tales of events never heard or long forgotten. Tales of misery and pain and anguish lost to the decent. There is no innocence in these stories, no one is blameless.
It is my honor and sorrowful duty to record these events. To protect them and share them with the public. Discretion is advised.
In all sincerity,
K. M. Dunn
This is the first novel in an anthological series of short stories written and revisited over a course of a four year-period. These stories follow the narratives of monsters, ghosts, murderers, cannibals, witches, royalty, and prophecies, each of which features a different genre or theme...