The story of one lonely drive down a blistering desert highway.
Tag: death
Weird #50: “The Hospice” by Robert Aickman (1975)
A ghost story that the reader pieces together only after it is told
Weird #45: “The Other Side of the Mountain” by Michel Bernanos (1967)
A sea voyage, a desert island story, and a Dantesque, existential allegory all rolled into one surreal masterpiece.
Weird #33: “A Child in the Bush of Ghosts” by Olympe Bhêly-Quénum (1949)
A journey from death to life in the forests of Benin.
Weird #25: “Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass'” by Bruno Schulz (1937)
A Sanatorium where time is not what it seems.
Weird #9: “The Spider” by Hans Heinz Ewers (1915)
A decadent tale of becoming overpowered by pleasure.
“Return to Methuselah”
"Return to Methuselah," one of my short stories, is now available at Dark Fire Fiction! It's a dark fantasy of an immortal painter who has become fed up with his immortality. I came up with this story after reflecting on the classical paradox of living an immortal life. An immortal can live forever, but in …
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