[Dark Visions 01] • Shades of Green · Third Sight · Duplicity · Rags and Bones · Parasite

Six chilling tales of dark horror from the twisted mind of Ian Woodhead

Shades of Green

The same nightmare tormented Alan Tyler every night. Each morning, he awoke knowing that The Man had not finished with him or his town of Holburn. The night that the nightmares suddenly stopped was the moment that Alan had been dreading for six years.

The Man was travelling back to Holburn. This time nothing would stand in his way. The huge ancient machines under the town would awaken this time. Holburn and every living thing in the town would soon begin to change…

The Aliens arrived millions of years ago. The invasion has just begun.

Third Sight

Driving its serrated talons through their hot skin, fills it with unbelievable pleasure. Only the immense waves of life energy detonating from its chosen watcher can come close to the almost orgasmic experience of deleting their physical form from this realm.

Adrian Winters is unaware that close to his home, a newborn demon has chosen him to be the watcher. Very soon, his loving family and all his friends are about to become food for the demon.

And he will have to witness every gruesome death.

Duplicity

Old lady fate hadn’t treated Henry Collins too badly. He wasn’t in bad shape for a bloke pushing forty. His loving wife still turned other men’s heads and at least, unlike others on his street, he still had a job.

Admittedly, his Bernadette treated him like a child most of the time. Playing tricks and taunting Henry, was his fellow employee’s two favourite games and even the local kids were seeing him as an easy target. Still, it could be worse. Henry had always taken the rough with the smooth, not much could rustle this man’s feathers.

All that changed when old lady fate dropped in on the man and violently snatched away everything he thought he knew and thrust him into a world of deceit, mindless violence and slaughter.

Rags and Bones

Cerchester appears to be like any other small community. There are men and women of many walks of life just doing what they can to survive. But good hides in the shadows of evil. The guardians that protect the town have dwindled down to one who must protect the rest of the world from the evil that resides in this town. Is it possible? Can he save the world from the wrath of Cerchester ?

Darkness prevails, and the outsiders who chose to live here are now just food for the sub-human inhabitants who are buried deep in this town. As power hungry locals upset the balance, unleashing the darkness that lives within to surface to destroy anything that does not belong.

But what will happen when evil overcomes good? When the outsiders become the next meal? The balance so carefully laid out to bury the mistakes of creation is interrupted as the walls protecting the world from Cerchester are broken down.

Parasite

The flock had run wild for over a thousand years, their numbers increasing with each generation. Racial memory only seeped out through the dreams of the disturbed, their true purpose forgotten.

His stirring body craved sustenance, his thoughts focussed on, once again, to quench his yearning for the sweet taste of hot human blood.

The time of the cull had arrived.