A FIRE IN THE MADHOUSE AT THE END OF TIME: 7 Weird Tales of Fantasy & Fright

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"A FIRE IN THE MADHOUSE AT THE END OF TIME" ... It's a vision as strange and unnerving as the 7 STORIES collected in this book. FIRE gives us its light and its protection against the darkness and dangers of the Night that surrounds all human existence ... and yet nothing kills and devours faster and more agonizingly than flames. And what we once called a MADHOUSE we now name an "asylum" ... such a gentler-sounding word to use. But when we lock a tortured soul inside ... whose ASYLUM do we seek? Do we protect ourselves from them ... or them from the cruelties and predations of our so-called "sane" society? Who is the true prisoner ... we or them? Read these seven haunting and terrifying tales if you dare ... and then decide for yourself which side of the locked doors YOU feel safer on. The locked doors of the modern, brightly-lit, clean and scientific mental asylum ...or the darkness of the HUMAN PSYCHE we each carry inside us ... aflame in the Madhouse at the End of Time ? TO KILL A MOCKING DEMON A nightmare twist on the beloved American classic tale of the Godful and Godforsaken Gothic South … "I’m an eight-year-old girl who has a neighbor man lives three houses down the street who they think they gotta keep chained up all night. I say ‘they think’ ... because they think they got chains somewhere in this dark damned world that can hold Boo Radley. But ain’t no chains, made here on Earth and not in Hell neither that could hold ol’ Boo. God don’t stop him, Jesus don’t neither. Them’s the nights Boo Radley comes creepin’ into my room." THE ROAD TO ROCKERS RUIN This Road is a winding black asphalt snake that devours your wildest dreams whole, sweet hitchhiker baby … body and soul … sex, drugs and Rock & Roll … TURN, O’ TIDE OF TEARS It is not a children’s story. It is a story told BY a child. And that is the most terrifying kind … O’ HEAR HOW THAT STORM WITCH HOWL Hurricane Katrina, an old Black grandma trapped in the rising flood, a werewolf and a preacher, and a riverboat steaming straight down the Ol’ Mississippi River to Hell … THE EXORCIST AND EMILY, AGE 5 All she wanted was a pony for her birthday. Is that too much to ask? THE MOON QUEEN’S MAGIC The Scary Man by the swings in the park promised Juliette that he could make her Daddy be happy again like he was before the war. That night she disappeared … A FINE SEASONING FOR WAR “It’s a cookbook!” Yeah? The alien Galactic Empire's Ambassador of War saw that damn episode of TWILIGHT ZONE too. He wasn't amused. They’ve been building their Flying Saucer warfleet ever since … "A FIRE IN THE MADHOUSE AT THE END OF TIME" is a collection of 7 stories of Fantasy & Fright ... 255 pages in length, and lavishly brought to visual life with a multitude of strange and startling art & illustrations.

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