The Twilight Madhouse: Volume 1

The Twilight Madhouse is a place of strange happenings, a place where lines blur and things are not what they seem to be.

Joanna Michal Hoyt begins our collection with a historical fiction piece titled Cracked Reflections. Go back to the 1919-1920, a time when madness was thought by some to be an illness of the mind, and by others to be a religious affliction. Who is mad here? Who is sane?
In The Decent Thing by Dex Fernandez we travel ahead to some future time when survival is the only moral code and sometimes protection takes forms we would shudder at here and now.
Take a step to the weird in The Eryxian Talisman by Cameron Smith. A young woman alone on the side of a highway realizes that appearances can be deceiving.
Jason Nugent examines a case of extreme dissociation in Achievement Unlocked and Colin Douglas puts some tough choices before his characters in Pick your Poison.
American gothic Literature has a long tradition of dark themes and surprising twists. Enroll in a lesson on the subject in POE 103 a Gothic inspired tale of love and curious madness by Ken Goldman.
Revenge is sweet for two young cancer patients in Karin Fulller's Death to the Diddlers, sweet and full of unexpected benefits. And for one young lady in D.R. Perry's Spectrum it is not so much a matter of revenge but a matter of survival.
Max Shephard provides an emotional tale of lies, confusion, and loss in The Other Side of Night, a chilling story that will not disappoint.
Ending off this collection is the humorous paranormal tale The Werewolf, the Vampire, the Demon, and the Girl by LJ McLeod. Set on a moonlit All Hallow's Eve these three monsters stalk their prey and the results are both surprising and amusing.