“Blessed is the beast that
knows its purpose.”
Something has begun to
creep in from the woods at night … something that stalks a young girl along
deserted streets …
WOOD
by Robert
Dunbar
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An excerpt
from WOOD by Robert Dunbar:
Boundaries shift.
Towns and
cities grow in spurts, sometimes encroaching upon places better left alone,
areas that through a sort of negative geography remain neither forest nor park,
neither rural nor urban. No proper designations exist. Unnamed and unclaimed,
such regions appear on no map. They never have. Perhaps always they seemed too
insignificant: half a lot, a strip of woodland, an acre of bog. Dead space.
Easily overlooked or deliberately ignored. As though, all along, people knew …
or at least suspected.
Yet such
places exist everywhere. In every village. Every suburb. Ask any child. They
form the terrain of all the darkest fairytales, the landscape of
nightmares.
Alleyways
through the worst sections of town inevitably empty into overgrown fields,
scruffy and menacing and strewn with rubbish. Bad places. Dwellings on these
outskirts slouch toward bitter soil. Boards splinter. Bricks crumble into
gravel. So many futile walls loom, intermittent with tilting fences of all
variety, a plethora of barricades (as though residents sincerely believed it
could be kept at bay). Behind cinderblock barriers, chains rattle as dogs howl
out their rage and fear. It is not wilderness that creeps up against these
blighted neighborhoods.
Perhaps
someday mankind will invent a term for that which seeps in, someday when the
cities have decayed and the suburbs have withered and the bad places have
inherited the earth. Perhaps, at last, the survivors will know Hell when they
see it.
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Critical
Acclaim for books by Robert Dunbar
WILLY
a novel by
Robert Dunbar
“Profound.” ~ The
Reading Review
“Unique.” ~ Midwest
Book Review
“Compelling.” ~ Literary Mayhem
MARTYRS
& MONSTERS
a
collection of short fiction by Robert Dunbar
“A
masterpiece.” ~ Dark
Scribe Magazine
“Provocative.” ~ GUD
Magazine
“Exquisite.” ~ Book
Love
THE
SHORE
a
novel by Robert Dunbar
“Breathtaking … a
tour-de-force.” ~ Dark
Wisdom
“Intense
and wholly original.” ~
Dark
Scribe Magazine
THE PINES
a
novel by Robert Dunbar
“Dark,
foreboding, menacing, eerie ... seductive.” ~
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
“Superb
… a masterpiece.” ~
Delaware Valley Magazine
“A
work of art.” ~ Shroud
Magazine
SHADOWS,
Supernatural Tales by Masters of Modern Literature
an
anthology of ghost stories
edited and
with an introduction by Robert Dunbar
“Superlative
and memorable.” ~ Tomb of Dark
Delights
“Prepare to
be entertained.” ~ Book
Love
“Required
reading for any serious connoisseur.” ~ Shroud Magazine
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