A COLLECTION OF SHORT HORROR STORIES AND DARK TALES USA Today bestselling author and master storyteller Dan Alatorre brings you another collection of dark stories. The Power Outage: An eerie story about a lone homeowner who meets the new neighbors on a stormy night when the power on their street goes out, but the neighbors are not what he expects. Tonight We Hunt The Beast, Lads: Against his better thinking, a medieval monk rides along with a frenzied mob to hunt a dangerous mythical beast. A Settled Matter: A dark humor take of a would-be normal man who decides to hire a hit man to murder his wife.