The Playwright

Illuminated by the ominous hue, there was the silhouette of a large, black fortress, its steep towers rising high in the air, sharp and stoic and firm in the scarlet sky, a violent tint fueled by the flames dancing all about. ‘A shudder in the loins engenders there,’ Jason thought, as the towers toppled and fell and crumbled to dust, sending a shockwave across the body of water. There followed an enormous wave that washed over him, knocking him back, into the forest he had only recently escaped, into the sticky earth and limes and far-off disaster that welcomed him back all too eagerly. There is more to the town of Leander than meets the eye, and there is more to human nature than either humanity or nature. People visit every summer. Most keep coming back. The rest can never leave. Set in a plot that is in the same measure natural and supernatural, The Playwright is a unique take on the ghost story as narrated in a modern context – a work of mystery, suspense, and light horror, it is an ideal read for the modern enthusiast of the genre.