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Encounters After Dark: Volume 1
Every day, all around the country, average people encounter the unimaginable.
This anthology will shake your beliefs. Be prepared to be terrified and unsettled by what you will read.
Encounters After Dark showcases encounters out of this world curated by the author through the years. Volume one showcases stories with Bigfoot and Skinwalkers.
This anthology will shake your beliefs. Be prepared to be terrified and unsettled by what you will read.
Encounters After Dark showcases encounters out of this world curated by the author through the years. Volume one showcases stories with Bigfoot and Skinwalkers.
116 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 10, 2023
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July 17, 2023
There's a good mix of stories in this book and a few cryptids that I can't identify. The first entry is someone in a van with a creature banging on it. This might be a rake but I'm not positive. Then we move to what might be a wolfman and then a mothman-type creature.
I'm not sure what the next one is. That's followed by a mimic creature and what might be a goblin. The next is an interesting one with a young go going through a tunnel into a cave, strange writing and a strange creature.
The next entry is an unknown to me, followed by a Bigfoot entry. Fortunately that one did not involve violence. Then there's another one I'm not sure of although it has goat legs. The final one is a black-eyed kids story with again the male being older than the female.
It's too bad the cave story didn't have someone go in and record the writings and try to figure out what they said. I wonder on the Bigfoot on if the Bigfoot just stared at the kid without doing anything because the kid was relatively harmless.
Anyhow, a somewhat unusual mix.
I'm not sure what the next one is. That's followed by a mimic creature and what might be a goblin. The next is an interesting one with a young go going through a tunnel into a cave, strange writing and a strange creature.
The next entry is an unknown to me, followed by a Bigfoot entry. Fortunately that one did not involve violence. Then there's another one I'm not sure of although it has goat legs. The final one is a black-eyed kids story with again the male being older than the female.
It's too bad the cave story didn't have someone go in and record the writings and try to figure out what they said. I wonder on the Bigfoot on if the Bigfoot just stared at the kid without doing anything because the kid was relatively harmless.
Anyhow, a somewhat unusual mix.
July 8, 2024
entertaining but riddled with errors and typos
I am struggling to understand why anyone would bother publishing a work and not proofread, check for spelling or usage errors. Some examples (I’ll paraphrase a bit here, but you’ll get the idea):
Missing “. . Starting, ending, just….wrong
“ETs” instead of “let’s”
“It was 11:30 a.m. and he was in bed after finishing dinner..”
Wrong tense
Incorrect use of verbs
Nonsensical descriptions (did you leave a noun out)?
It takes away from your enjoyment and diminishes the possibility of empathy for the storytellers when the reader is constantly faced with realizing that this “book” is a rough draft not suitable for publication. Shame on the “author.”
I am struggling to understand why anyone would bother publishing a work and not proofread, check for spelling or usage errors. Some examples (I’ll paraphrase a bit here, but you’ll get the idea):
Missing “. . Starting, ending, just….wrong
“ETs” instead of “let’s”
“It was 11:30 a.m. and he was in bed after finishing dinner..”
Wrong tense
Incorrect use of verbs
Nonsensical descriptions (did you leave a noun out)?
It takes away from your enjoyment and diminishes the possibility of empathy for the storytellers when the reader is constantly faced with realizing that this “book” is a rough draft not suitable for publication. Shame on the “author.”
April 29, 2024
Great Read!
This is my 1st time reading a book by this author and I really enjoyed it. I was looking for real life strange encounters that would give me a scare and this book did it. I will definitely be reading more books by this author.
This is my 1st time reading a book by this author and I really enjoyed it. I was looking for real life strange encounters that would give me a scare and this book did it. I will definitely be reading more books by this author.
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April 24, 2023Great stories!!
Love the variety of encounters in this book! John Madison has collected amass of never-before-read stories. Onto Volume 2!!
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Love the variety of encounters in this book! John Madison has collected amass of never-before-read stories. Onto Volume 2!!
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June 14, 2023
Fast paced! Was finished before I knew it!
Spooky stories. Maybe a title anticlimactic at times, but they’re supposed to be true accounts and I appreciate the honesty of the people telling their stories.
Spooky stories. Maybe a title anticlimactic at times, but they’re supposed to be true accounts and I appreciate the honesty of the people telling their stories.
Did Not Finish
February 14, 2026I didn’t find the stories scary and to me after reading a handful they all start to sound the same and I became bored so DNF.
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