When darkness appears, so will those things that stay hidden during the day, anxiously waiting for you to stumble upon them. And when you do, you will find yourself immersed in a world so bizarre and strange. Will you escape unscathed? Or was it all just some horrible nightmare? Fresh Cut Tales revisits 8 previously published tales along with 8 all new stories. Kenneth W. Cain has hoisted up his axe and given all 16 stories a fresh cut. You’ll get a little taste of it all here in the pages of Fresh Cut Tales. You’ll travel through doors not intended to open. You’ll find yourself spiraling up through tight spaces and ending up in creepy places. Monsters will show their faces, and everywhere you look there will be traces of the unknown, the supernatural, the world we aren’t so familiar with. Does it really exist? In these stories you’ll travel near, to your backyard, your own house, or your thoughts. You’ll travel far, to Earth’s core, outer space, or beyond. You’ll discover strange new worlds and encounter horrible beasts, the most familiar of which will be that of man or woman, a loved one, a child. Together we will test the human spirit, see who falls and who rises above. Who of you will champion this darkness, brave the unknown, face these fears and endure? Turn the pages and see.
Author
Kenneth W. Cain first got the itch for storytelling during his formative years in the suburbs of Chicago, where he got to listen to his grandfather spin tales by the glow of a barrel fire. But it was a reading of Baba Yaga that grew his desire for dark fiction. Shows like The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and One Step Beyond furthered that sense of wonder for the unknown, and he’s been writing ever since. Cain is the author of The Saga of I trilogy, United States of the Dead, the short story collections These Old Tales and Fresh Cut Tales, and the forthcoming Embers: A Collection of Dark Fiction. Writing, reading, fine art, graphic design, and Cardinals baseball are but a few of his passions. Cain now resides in Chester County, Pennsylvania with his wife and two children.
