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DARK THREE: Three Dark Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night
"John Cheever meets Alfred Hitchcock!" - Harding House
DARK THREE by Rye Dano
Three Dark Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night
The Carrion Trap
The Backup
The Roadkill
Three short stories written to give you a shiver up your spine, a chill on the back of your neck and a case of goosebumps in the night.
NOTES FROM THE AUTHOR:
THE CARRION TRAP:
This story was inspired after seeing a Charles Addams cartoon from an old New Yorker magazine dated back to the mid-1950s. While at first glance the story - in the telling - seems far from dark (it's not a dark tale in the traditional sense) it is one in which the hints of darkness are embedded within the comfort zone of normal suburban life. As one reviewer describes it, "John Cheever meets Alfred Hitchcock".
THE BACKUP:
The idea of this story came to me with the announcement of the kindle. I was both inspired and horrified by the new, attractive and revolutionary prospects that ebooks were going to present to us all. On the one hand, I readily admit an attraction to this new format, this new means of publishing. On the other, I feared an imminent extinction of physical books in our modern world and the associated danger of a society where words and knowledge of the past can be easily tailored to fit the present. I knew the dangers would outweigh the benefits, but I also knew like all other developments in history, the new would overtake the old regardless of the imbalance. And we would...bury our books, literally and figuratively. This story is about what would happen when one such book is unearthed in a post-paper book world. Not as drastic as Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, nor as bleak as Orwell's 1984, the future that I illustrate here, is one that I fear is closer to where we are headed, one which the populace would not only permit to occur but, sadly, hasten its arrival with glee.
THE ROAD KILL:
Family road trips have always been fun times for me as a boy growing up. I have nothing but fond memories of them, yet I came to realize that this was not always the case with other boys, other families. I wondered what kind of trouble—what kind of horror—could occur on the road and by what dark forces. I found further inspiration from a tale told on the old Art Bell radio show about a road that went back-in-time. This idea fascinated me and having cars coming the other way dating back in model year as the family traveled on, was something I thought would certainly spook me as a kid and still does, as an adult.
I hope you like these stories and that they move something in you, inspire you, as I was inspired by other stories.
Cheers from Tokyo.
DARK THREE by Rye Dano
Three Dark Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night
The Carrion Trap
The Backup
The Roadkill
Three short stories written to give you a shiver up your spine, a chill on the back of your neck and a case of goosebumps in the night.
NOTES FROM THE AUTHOR:
THE CARRION TRAP:
This story was inspired after seeing a Charles Addams cartoon from an old New Yorker magazine dated back to the mid-1950s. While at first glance the story - in the telling - seems far from dark (it's not a dark tale in the traditional sense) it is one in which the hints of darkness are embedded within the comfort zone of normal suburban life. As one reviewer describes it, "John Cheever meets Alfred Hitchcock".
THE BACKUP:
The idea of this story came to me with the announcement of the kindle. I was both inspired and horrified by the new, attractive and revolutionary prospects that ebooks were going to present to us all. On the one hand, I readily admit an attraction to this new format, this new means of publishing. On the other, I feared an imminent extinction of physical books in our modern world and the associated danger of a society where words and knowledge of the past can be easily tailored to fit the present. I knew the dangers would outweigh the benefits, but I also knew like all other developments in history, the new would overtake the old regardless of the imbalance. And we would...bury our books, literally and figuratively. This story is about what would happen when one such book is unearthed in a post-paper book world. Not as drastic as Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, nor as bleak as Orwell's 1984, the future that I illustrate here, is one that I fear is closer to where we are headed, one which the populace would not only permit to occur but, sadly, hasten its arrival with glee.
THE ROAD KILL:
Family road trips have always been fun times for me as a boy growing up. I have nothing but fond memories of them, yet I came to realize that this was not always the case with other boys, other families. I wondered what kind of trouble—what kind of horror—could occur on the road and by what dark forces. I found further inspiration from a tale told on the old Art Bell radio show about a road that went back-in-time. This idea fascinated me and having cars coming the other way dating back in model year as the family traveled on, was something I thought would certainly spook me as a kid and still does, as an adult.
I hope you like these stories and that they move something in you, inspire you, as I was inspired by other stories.
Cheers from Tokyo.
89 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 27, 2017
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