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Nocturnal Screams #3
Dark Shadows
Screams echo through the thick darkness of night in this third collection in a series of short horror tales from the dark mind of Mark Leslie.
THE SHADOW MEN: The bogeymen of the New Hampshire wilderness known as "The Shadow Men" lurk in the shadows of the trees and only come out at night in order to lure and trick children into their clutches.
FOLLOW THE SHADOW: Isn't it funny how a person's shadow follows every single movement a person makes? Or could it perhaps be the other way around? What if a person was forced to follow the lead of their shadow?
A MURDER OF SCARECROWS: A small east coast community becomes over-run in the middle of the night by a growing army of scarecrows that seem to appear out of nowhere.
If you're looking for three quick jaunts into worlds where darkness mingles with the echoes of cries in the night, you'll want to crack open the pages and start listening for the nocturnal screams. The stories and accompanying "behind the screams" notes from the author come to approximately 13,600 words.
THE SHADOW MEN: The bogeymen of the New Hampshire wilderness known as "The Shadow Men" lurk in the shadows of the trees and only come out at night in order to lure and trick children into their clutches.
FOLLOW THE SHADOW: Isn't it funny how a person's shadow follows every single movement a person makes? Or could it perhaps be the other way around? What if a person was forced to follow the lead of their shadow?
A MURDER OF SCARECROWS: A small east coast community becomes over-run in the middle of the night by a growing army of scarecrows that seem to appear out of nowhere.
If you're looking for three quick jaunts into worlds where darkness mingles with the echoes of cries in the night, you'll want to crack open the pages and start listening for the nocturnal screams. The stories and accompanying "behind the screams" notes from the author come to approximately 13,600 words.
- GenresHorror
56 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 9, 2017
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36 people want to read
About the author
Mark Leslie
124 books177 followersMark is a writer, editor and bookseller who was born and grew up in Sudbury, spent many years in Ottawa and Hamilton and currently lives in Waterloo, Ontario.
When he is not writing, he tacks "Lefebvre" back onto his name and works as a book industry consultant, having been a bookseller since the 1992, the same year his first short story was published.
Apart from publishing novels and non-fiction paranormal explorations under the name Mark Leslie, having works occasionally appearing on his mother's refrigerator door under the name Mark Lefebvre, and podcasting and consulting about the book industry under the name Mark Leslie Lefebvre for his Stark Publishing/Stark Reflections brand, Mark is a lover of craft beer.
When he's not enjoying craft beer or playing around with his three given names, he can usually be found wandering, awestruck through bookstores or libraries.
When he is not writing, he tacks "Lefebvre" back onto his name and works as a book industry consultant, having been a bookseller since the 1992, the same year his first short story was published.
Apart from publishing novels and non-fiction paranormal explorations under the name Mark Leslie, having works occasionally appearing on his mother's refrigerator door under the name Mark Lefebvre, and podcasting and consulting about the book industry under the name Mark Leslie Lefebvre for his Stark Publishing/Stark Reflections brand, Mark is a lover of craft beer.
When he's not enjoying craft beer or playing around with his three given names, he can usually be found wandering, awestruck through bookstores or libraries.
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July 30, 2024
On shadows, scarecrows and silent screams!
DARK SHADOWS is Mark Leslie’s third collection of macabre short stories under the series title NOCTURNAL SCREAMS. If horror built on gushing gore, gruesome violence, or groping, grunting and groaning vampires and zombies with episodic bouts of graphic sex is your thing, you’re definitely in the wrong place. Leslie’s version of horror shorts can be characterized as a thinking man’s old-time story-telling suitable for scaring the pants off your friends around a campfire. With a distinct economy of words he tells the kind of eyebrow raising, shiver inducing tale that creeps up behind you, taps you on your shoulder and makes you whirl around with a gasp (or a silent scream) wondering how that brilliant twist ending snuck up on you out of the darkness.
Leslie himself proudly calls this collection “three quick jaunts into worlds where darkness mingles with the echoes of cries in the night”. The collection is a small one and will take no more than an hour to read through but it’s brilliant, thoroughly enjoyable and easy to recommend. Be warned … if you are a lover of backcountry camping on Canada’s northern wilderness lakes, what you used to thrill to in the call of a loon will never sound the same to you again!
Paul Weiss
DARK SHADOWS is Mark Leslie’s third collection of macabre short stories under the series title NOCTURNAL SCREAMS. If horror built on gushing gore, gruesome violence, or groping, grunting and groaning vampires and zombies with episodic bouts of graphic sex is your thing, you’re definitely in the wrong place. Leslie’s version of horror shorts can be characterized as a thinking man’s old-time story-telling suitable for scaring the pants off your friends around a campfire. With a distinct economy of words he tells the kind of eyebrow raising, shiver inducing tale that creeps up behind you, taps you on your shoulder and makes you whirl around with a gasp (or a silent scream) wondering how that brilliant twist ending snuck up on you out of the darkness.
Leslie himself proudly calls this collection “three quick jaunts into worlds where darkness mingles with the echoes of cries in the night”. The collection is a small one and will take no more than an hour to read through but it’s brilliant, thoroughly enjoyable and easy to recommend. Be warned … if you are a lover of backcountry camping on Canada’s northern wilderness lakes, what you used to thrill to in the call of a loon will never sound the same to you again!
Paul Weiss
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