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From the Darkest Hours: 13 Darkly Twisted Tales Volume II
In his second volume of deliciously strange tales, Jeremy M. Wright invites you along another road with thirteen detours down dark paths where the headlights dimly show what lies ahead. This stunning collection of stories includes the hit novella
Last Girl Found
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Here at the Fold— A rare solar eclipse last happened around these parts when Sam was eight, and he remembers what spilled out of the fold of waning light. Now seventy years later, it’s coming again, and it’s going to trap him inside his convenient store with two kids who fail to understand the terror that comes with it.
Inheritance— Dillon wanted nothing to do with his father’s fortune, earned by manufacturing instruments of death. But that didn’t stop his father from leaving him one thing—the single nightmare that has followed them across generations.
Strange Behavior— In a trance-like state, four-year-old Caleb sketches a plane wreckage, along with the numbers 27 and 1. Now, his parents learn of a downed plane hours later, and the announcement of twenty-seven deceased, and a sole survivor. Then Caleb begins sketching again, bringing the sinister survivor closer to home.
Such Games We’ll Play— The small wooden puzzle box was sitting in the middle of Lucy’s driveway, begging to be opened. What comes spilling out seems impossible to exist and is determined to drive her mad.
Last Girl Found— After enduring five weeks of unspeakable misery at the hands of three men known as The Wolf Pack, Kelly Ray walks out of the Virginia woods alive. Broken in body but not mind, she reassembles what she can of a normal life. But five years later, that normal life has a twisted way of correcting the depravity that man creates. Vengeance carries a sweet possibility as Kelly encounters one of the three men who tried to take her life in those godless woods. But she doesn’t want just one of them. She wants all three.
Kelly knows they’ve snatched another girl, because Reyna Mathers’ face is all over the evening news. She also knows the clock is ticking until the girl gets a small taste of the punishment these men offer. She knows better than anyone what they’re capable of, and that Reyna is a few weeks away from a shallow grave beside all the others who have vanished.
Kelly has constructed the interrogation device necessary to get the information she needs. Now she has the incentive to take this game to a sinister level.
And eight more tales best read in the dark!
From the author of Chasing Daylight, From Shadowed Places, Man of Exile, and the young adult novels The Good Ship, and Paper Moon Landing, Jeremy M. Wright invites you along this journey somewhere between redemption and damnation.
Here at the Fold— A rare solar eclipse last happened around these parts when Sam was eight, and he remembers what spilled out of the fold of waning light. Now seventy years later, it’s coming again, and it’s going to trap him inside his convenient store with two kids who fail to understand the terror that comes with it.
Inheritance— Dillon wanted nothing to do with his father’s fortune, earned by manufacturing instruments of death. But that didn’t stop his father from leaving him one thing—the single nightmare that has followed them across generations.
Strange Behavior— In a trance-like state, four-year-old Caleb sketches a plane wreckage, along with the numbers 27 and 1. Now, his parents learn of a downed plane hours later, and the announcement of twenty-seven deceased, and a sole survivor. Then Caleb begins sketching again, bringing the sinister survivor closer to home.
Such Games We’ll Play— The small wooden puzzle box was sitting in the middle of Lucy’s driveway, begging to be opened. What comes spilling out seems impossible to exist and is determined to drive her mad.
Last Girl Found— After enduring five weeks of unspeakable misery at the hands of three men known as The Wolf Pack, Kelly Ray walks out of the Virginia woods alive. Broken in body but not mind, she reassembles what she can of a normal life. But five years later, that normal life has a twisted way of correcting the depravity that man creates. Vengeance carries a sweet possibility as Kelly encounters one of the three men who tried to take her life in those godless woods. But she doesn’t want just one of them. She wants all three.
Kelly knows they’ve snatched another girl, because Reyna Mathers’ face is all over the evening news. She also knows the clock is ticking until the girl gets a small taste of the punishment these men offer. She knows better than anyone what they’re capable of, and that Reyna is a few weeks away from a shallow grave beside all the others who have vanished.
Kelly has constructed the interrogation device necessary to get the information she needs. Now she has the incentive to take this game to a sinister level.
And eight more tales best read in the dark!
From the author of Chasing Daylight, From Shadowed Places, Man of Exile, and the young adult novels The Good Ship, and Paper Moon Landing, Jeremy M. Wright invites you along this journey somewhere between redemption and damnation.
276 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 17, 2025
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About the author
Jeremy M. Wright
7 books44 followersI was born in 1974 in Omaha, NE. I have since uprooted my life there and have moved with my wife to the beautiful country hills of Arkansas.
I took a love of reading and telling stories at an early age.
I strongly believe in most of the writing advice I’ve learned from teachers and self-help writing books. Here is where I disagree. I've been told by many to "write what you know!'". That's all well and good if you know a lot. However, for some of us, our knowledge is running a very short race, probably with a mental "bad knee" that makes us run more in circles instead of a straight line. So I usually choose to write about what I don't know. How else do we learn new things if we never explore the dark unknown corners of existence?
I have also chosen to resist all urges to be pigeon-holed as a single genre writer. I love reading different types of novels just as I love writing them. How else can we evolve if we're typing away day after day about a private investigator who has a soft spot for pretty girls in short skirts, following his own rules, and dependency on whiskey? Fifty novels later has our protagonist really learned much? Grown? Or changed by any fascinating degree? Probably not.
So I explore because it's what we humans do best. I write in the range of mystery, fantasy, thrillers, dramas, sci-fi, action/adventure, comedy, mainstream, satire and anything else that might seem challenging enough. Basically, if the plot idea has strong legs, the characters a great purpose, then the idea deserves to be written. Although I will tell you to never expect a Danielle Steel or Nicolas Sparks type novels from me. I've got to draw a line somewhere!
So the rundown is simple if you're expecting to find my work nicely bundled up in one genre because it's the genre you're most comfortable traveling those pages, then I'm not likely an author for you. But, if you want to go on a fun road trip and see those odd side attractions everybody else misses because they're too busy catching the same old (yawn, yawn) attractions thirty million other people have seen, then I am an author for you.
If you like you can take my hand because I see a journey just up ahead and around that dark corner. You shouldn’t worry, not just yet, because I know the way. We'll probably make it through all right, with our sanity, just maybe.
I took a love of reading and telling stories at an early age.
I strongly believe in most of the writing advice I’ve learned from teachers and self-help writing books. Here is where I disagree. I've been told by many to "write what you know!'". That's all well and good if you know a lot. However, for some of us, our knowledge is running a very short race, probably with a mental "bad knee" that makes us run more in circles instead of a straight line. So I usually choose to write about what I don't know. How else do we learn new things if we never explore the dark unknown corners of existence?
I have also chosen to resist all urges to be pigeon-holed as a single genre writer. I love reading different types of novels just as I love writing them. How else can we evolve if we're typing away day after day about a private investigator who has a soft spot for pretty girls in short skirts, following his own rules, and dependency on whiskey? Fifty novels later has our protagonist really learned much? Grown? Or changed by any fascinating degree? Probably not.
So I explore because it's what we humans do best. I write in the range of mystery, fantasy, thrillers, dramas, sci-fi, action/adventure, comedy, mainstream, satire and anything else that might seem challenging enough. Basically, if the plot idea has strong legs, the characters a great purpose, then the idea deserves to be written. Although I will tell you to never expect a Danielle Steel or Nicolas Sparks type novels from me. I've got to draw a line somewhere!
So the rundown is simple if you're expecting to find my work nicely bundled up in one genre because it's the genre you're most comfortable traveling those pages, then I'm not likely an author for you. But, if you want to go on a fun road trip and see those odd side attractions everybody else misses because they're too busy catching the same old (yawn, yawn) attractions thirty million other people have seen, then I am an author for you.
If you like you can take my hand because I see a journey just up ahead and around that dark corner. You shouldn’t worry, not just yet, because I know the way. We'll probably make it through all right, with our sanity, just maybe.
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November 2, 2025
From the Darkest Hours is an outstanding collection of short stories that takes readers on a thrilling journey through mystery, emotion, scare, and human nature. Each story is unique in theme and tone, yet they are beautifully connected by Wright’s sharp writing style and his ability to build tension with just a few words.
While some stories are darker than others, the variety keeps the book engaging from start to finish. It’s the kind of collection you can read all at once or pick up one story at a time — and either way, it stays with you long after you’re done.
While some stories are darker than others, the variety keeps the book engaging from start to finish. It’s the kind of collection you can read all at once or pick up one story at a time — and either way, it stays with you long after you’re done.
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