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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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Lane Talbot
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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Lane Talbot
June 2023
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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Lane Talbot
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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Lane Talbot
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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Lane Talbot
May 2023
Allow Me to Introduce Myself and My Bad Tattoo
It’s summer and the bad tattoos are in bloom.
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North Dark | Chapter 5 of 21
Two Crows draws his knife from its sheath by only a degree—an inch of blade—and steps toward them.
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North Dark | Chapter 4 of 21
The man, a heavy adventurer with a shaved head and a white beard, hunches down over Two Crows and cracks his mouth with his fingers.
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Lane Talbot
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North Dark | Chapter 3 of 21
His father’s obsidian necklace, reflecting the low light of the fire in the hearth, rests in the cup of his throat above his breastbone.
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Lane Talbot
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North Dark | Chapter 2 of 21
Treesplitter rolls one of the frozen corpses over and stares at it. Hooded in red, face pierced with whale bone rings, an ornate and delicate knife…
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North Dark | Chapter 1 of 21
He has to close the distance, get within the beast’s range, strike swiftly, and pray to Jesus for the best.
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Lane Talbot
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