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North Dark | Chapter 13 of 21
He takes up the knife and throws open the tent flap. A humpbacked crone, wrapped in a hooded cloak, huddles near his campfire. A matted cape of white…
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North Dark | Chapter 12 of 21
Two Crows leaps backward and all of the slaves begin hissing and cawing to themselves. They look at the whiteskinned man seizing on the ground and they…
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North Dark | Chapter 11 of 21
He leaves the cabin and walks out into the sunlit wilderness; bound, hungry, injured and though he does not see anyone at all, he knows he is pursued.
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North Dark | Chapter 10 of 21
Their faces are dirty, blackened with smoky tattoos and age. Those that do not carry crossbows carry large crude hooks on chains.
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North Dark | Chapter 9 of 21
Two Crows stares at the man—older, tired, hungry. His face is sallow, grizzled and his eyes are sunken, affrighted.
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North Dark | Chapter 8 of 21
... he removes one hand from the sled and draws his crossbow. He lowers himself and braces the stock of the crossbow against the wicker handle.
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North Dark | Chapter 7 of 21
Teeth glow snowbright against its bloody jaws. A ring of bloodslicked fur cuffs each leg.
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On Setting in Horror
Horror fills space. The more finely crafted the space, the more beautiful the horror.
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North Dark | Chapter 6 of 21
Men wrapped in wolfskins reach up to their biceps into garbage cans filled with vegetable alcohol.
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Serialized fiction, essays and lost expedition field notes.
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