THE RETURN — Part I of The Season of Fear Trilogy

A continuation of the world first unearthed in my latest novel Blood & Seeds

Did you ever wonder how Halloween truly began?

The answer was buried in 1582 — the year time itself broke. When ten days vanished from October’s calendar, the Church called it correction… but the villagers of Bear Mountain would soon find out that the devilish folklore was true — nights when something ancient returned.

As frost grips the harvest, whispers spread through the valley: of black wings in the moonlight, of beasts once thought buried beneath Eden’s Brook. The old stories stir again, and this time, they’re real.

A handful of weary villagers stand against the horror, clinging to fading faith as one by one, they vanish into the night. When the final bell tolls, a shadowed figure steps forward — not man, not monster, but something in between. His arrival marks the beginning of the end.

This is where the legend begins.

This is where Halloween was born.

Part I: The Return opens the season of Fear Trilogy — a dark folklore saga following the cursed evolution of man, monster, and myth. Each installment deepens the tale:

Part I — The Return: The monsters come back.

Part II — The Rising: The monsters destroy until an ultimatum is made.

Part III — The Bargain: October becomes the season of fear and Halloween is created. A holiday celebrating the dead.

Tied to the infernal roots of my latest novel Blood & Seeds, yet standing as its own haunting mythology, The Season of Fear Trilogy unveils how one man’s bargain with darkness would curse every October to come — and give birth to Halloween itself.

Reading Time: 5 mins

1,469 words

THE RISING — Part II of The Season of Fear Trilogy

When Othren returns without his friend, the village of Eden’s Brook descends into hysteria. A blood moon rises, the dead begin to hang from trees, and whispers of monsters prove all too real. The Season of Fear has begun—and no prayer will stop what’s coming.

Reading Time: 9 min

2,421 words

THE BARGAIN — Part III of The Season of Fear Trilogy

October, 1582 Vampress Bloodveil, Arachneborn, Gorehorn, Madfang, and other creatures stalk the night, leaving death and terror in their wake.

Into this nightmare walks a man or something far darker, commanding the monsters themselves. The villagers must confront a force far beyond their understanding.

Dark, engaging, rooted in history. In a shocking revelation, the missing days of October—the switch to the Gregorian calendar in 1582 becomes a key part to Part 3: The Bargain as it reveals the horrifying events that created the season of fear, now known as Halloween.

Reading Time: 8 min

2.941 words

A couple takes a desert detour that leads them onto a road that doesn’t end. Each mile takes something from them—until there’s nothing left. A short story of dread and disappearance.

Reading Time: 8 mins

2,950 words

What if perpetual motion didn’t belong to a machine, but to a man?

Reading Time: 6 mins

2,320 words

They thought they’d hit the jackpot. Instead, they doubled down on damnation.

Reading Time: 7 mins

2,960 words

Synesthesia: a rare neurological condition in which stimulation of one sense triggers automatic experiences in another—for example, hearing music and seeing colors.

For young Iris, the violin doesn’t just make sound—it paints the air with ribbons of light, every note alive with color. To her parents, it’s refinement. To her teacher, it’s truth. But as Iris’s gift deepens, the beauty begins to fracture, and the colors reveal something lurking beneath the world only she can see.

Reading Time: 5 mins

1,688 words

Victor Raines built the Mandela Machine to prove the Mandela Effect was no trick of memory — it was a fracture in reality. When the experiment drags him through shifting universes, he emerges as Chasmidon: half-man, half-quantum engine, a being whose every fury shatters planets. Worlds burn, histories diverge, and the machine feeds on the darkness it creates — until the one he remembers might be a final illusion.

Reading Time: 7 mins

Word count: 2,938

When Neve’s father dies, grief leads her back to the house she thought she’d left behind. But the voice she hears there is all too familiar. A voice that draws her deeper into the family’s past. A locked barn. A key hidden for decades. And a mother’s desperate warning to not open it. Can Neve resist or will the mystery she finds change her forever.

Reading Time: 5 mins

Word count: 1,580