I present to you a dark tale suitable for this dark time of the year. Pink Floyd said it well when they warned, ominously, “I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon.”
I have just re-released my short fiction, “The Treasure of Purgatory Crater” after major revisions and addition of a large amount of new scenes, descriptions, and desperate circumstances. This time around, I’ve included the option to listen to it as an audiobook.
Be forewarned: brace yourself from the get-go for a succession of creepy, dark scenes and situations, all set on the Far Side of the Moon, in the middle of its two-week-long period of nighttime blackness.
It’s not a ghost story. There’s nothing supernatural about it. No, there’s something far worse going on. And it’s not a creature feature. No. It trades on something even more horrific—human madness, greed, and murderousness.
For sheer terror, isolation, and darkness, this story surpasses even ALIEN. Remember the subtitle at the beginning of ALIEN? “In space, no one can hear you scream.” The subtitle for this one ought to read, “In space, go ahead and scream all you want. No one is listening.”
As is common in much of my storytelling, this is a tale of a male/female pair of heroes beset by horrors but still discovering a spark of attraction that grows between them. Only in this case, their mutual concern for each other just adds a deeper chill to the horrors they encounter together—or alone. Have you ever considered how claustrophobic a spacesuit can get to be?
And finally, as with ALIEN, you may begin to wonder how there could possibly be a happy ending to such a terrifying tale.
Give it a read, or a listen, and find out.
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