The Corner Masters are magical demons of another realm. For a time, they were tasked with watching our world and progress. Now, they’ve deemed us unworthy. Lost causes. They’ll have their fun. And then end us all.
Book One of DOCUMENTING DREADFUL EXISTENCES: The Corner Masters - Table of Contents: 1. Rage 2. Empowered 3. A Second Chance 4. The Stretching Creek 5. Complete Sacrifice 6. In the Darkened Alley 7. You Don't Belong Here 8. The Poison Awakens
Regarding the Documenting Dreadful Existences series: This world—and the others that exist on different planes and time—have numerous running stories of treachery, evil, deceit, magic, and exhaustion. Some lines are bending and twisting with others. Some universes are eating away at themselves and opening pathways to other realms. In this series of series, of which I’ve titled Documenting Dreadful Existences, I have tracked down stories that follow the demons that manipulate us, the dimensional rips capable of transporting man elsewhere in place and time, and the dangerous world that exists following Mother Earth's overthrow of humankind.
Aiden Merchant is the author of more than a hundred stories spanning numerous collections, including Sickness is in Season, Documenting Dreadful Existences, Dead as Soon as Born, Kill for Them, and his extreme horror debut Horrific Holidays. He is also the author of several novellas and screenplays. In late 2021, he published and edited Milk Teeth by Andrew Post, as well as a dark fiction anthology Blackberry Blood, which he worked on with author Julia C. Lewis. His short fiction has appeared in Wild Violence, Pulp Harvest, and Slice of Paradise.
I read Aiden Merchant's The Corner Masters after a few potential UFO's were in the news which seemed like a great opportunity for an eery read. This book featured an eery story of an otherworldly being testing humans for their control and abilities, to help build an army of its own.
I'd love to see what may come next for the Corner Masters, it felt like it had the potential to be revisited!
Special thanks to Aiden Merchant for providing The Corner Masters to read and leave an honest review.