A MUST READ FOR FANS OF HORROR, DARK FANTASY, AND THE WEIRD "Where there is no imagination there is no horror." -Arthur Conan Doyle Dark Covenants: Tales of Horror and the Weird Join us for nine short stories of women and men making promises they can't keep, promises they shouldn't keep, promises sure to drag them down paths both dark and sinister. What they discover at the ends of those paths will prove malign, menacing, murderous. Please, enjoy. The Spectre of the Covenant: Forty souls perished in the slaughter. But she survived. She made a vow, a covenant, and she changed. Now, at the bottom of a bog, she lies in wait. Her people were wronged, violated, murdered, and she was promised a reckoning. That reckoning comes now. Captives: Jacob locked her away, castigating her, imprisoning her behind the steel doors and padded walls of an ungodly institution. Samantha. He said she was insidious, evil, unfit for civilization. He was right on all three counts, but really, was he any better than her? The Agreement: It hurts to move. It hurts to think. But she does so anyways. Endlessly she shambles on through the urban labyrinth of back alleyways and brick monstrosities, searching for something she's lost and forgotten long, long ago. Heaven help her when she finds it. Growling at Quarks: An old tin can. Hannah found it in the back of the store a long time ago. Its label read dark matter. Against better judgment she opened it. Whole new worlds, new universes opened, glistening cyclopean vistas expanding before her eyes. Captivating. Ethereal. Brilliant. So beautiful it took her breath away. Then it took more. Be Nice: Jarno has a simple life philosophy. Just be nice. So simple. So easy. If everyone could share that same philosophy, the world would be a better place. Even if only the people in power could share it, how much good could be done? Well, Jarno's going to find out the answer to that question. In fact ev