Gone

by Ramona Meisel

Gone is half a story about the Pied Piper, half a story about the Erlking. Each story has two sides and here you'll decide yourself if you read just one story after the next, or both at the same time. In 21 chapters, you will be confronted with a story that is whimsical and incorporeal, combining horror and fairytale in one. Each chapter - accompanied by modern, digital art inspired by tarot cards - talks about your way deeper into the claws of something otherworldly.

67 pages, ebook

First published October 1, 2021

About the author

Ramona Meisel is an artist, writer and mythology nerd living in Germany. She’s a strange human hybrid of mended bones and a soul ripped apart at the edges. Her tongue is sharp enough to cut and her mind keen enough to bleed. When she’s not haunting the net she’s perfectly content to lose time in prose and poetry.

Reviews

[Alya · Rating 3 out of 5]

a dark poetry book about the pied piper? yes, thank you for the food~ i devoured it as fast as i could; it was good, i love the illustrations, dark and poignant and it sets the tone of a gothic styled fairytale, though i acknowledge it is simplistic — it could be more daring, push the boundaries, but in the end, i suppose it was easier to play it safe;

as for the content, i have been an in and out fan of ramona meisel’s works; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t - by far, i think i still love parched the most; anyways, for this work, i like the motive of death throughout, and the slowly building sensation of having a noose tightening about your neck, as the erkling and the pied piper further ensnare the reader’s attention; it’s a stylistic way of writing that works and is very familiar in most of the author’s works;

truthfully though, in the end, i think enjoyed it because of what was the subject of the poems, not the poems itself.