Spiders in Your Mind I
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A collection of five new dark stories for people who like a scare ...
‘Buried Alive’: Eddy’s friends have buried him alive. More strangely, he willingly helped them to dig his own grave. But, as every long minute passes down there in the cold autumn earth, he grows more certain that he should not have done that.
‘Spiders in Your Mind’: The folds of the bedroom curtains and the area behind the bed’s headboard are the territory of a Giant house spider. He is a large male, as big as a child’s hand. At this size, his leg span is wider even than that of females of his own species and he has little to fear in the darkness of the bedroom. Nevertheless, something disturbs him about the smaller spider crawling towards him, and he scurries away from confrontation, leaving the intruder to continue on her way towards the man and woman sleeping below.
‘Matryoshka’: Frank Digby has been imprisoned for the most terrible of crimes. Frank’s captors insist he is innocent, but Frank knows he can never be released. How can he be? His prison is one with many doors, but the doors are of Frank’s own unique design: they can be opened just once, by Frank alone, and only from the outside. Now he is inside, there is no way out.
‘The Kids from Snape’: On the school bus, on his way to his first day at Witcham High, Mark has no friends and sits alone on one of the many empty seats near the front of the bus. The kids at the back of the bus laugh and joke. That is until the bus stops in Snape, where three boys and a girl, dressed alike in long black coats, get on. They look at no one but Mark and take seats near to him, away from all the other kids. After Snape, there is no more laughter.
‘Unpaid Debt’: Do you believe in Heaven? Hell? Whether you do or you don’t, what if someone, somewhere is watching you, keeping score?
Patrick Ryder
Patrick Ryder is the author of numerous short stories, most of which appeared in small-press magazines in the nineties.His first full-length novel is entitled 'Crossed Shadows' and is available on Amazon and Smashwords. 'Crossed Shadows' sits on that tense boundary between horror and science fiction, beginning with a misguided experiment at the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland. 'When death lurks in your own shadow, where can you hide?'He is author of 'Spiders in your Mind I', the first of a series of anthologies of new dark fiction. If you prefer your scares served cold, these stories are for you. Not recommended for reading at bedtime because no one hears your cries when you're lost in the night-time world...His new short story, 'Regression', is set fifty years in the future, at the point when AI inevitably surpasses the capabilities of its human creators. 'The Singularity 50' is now available in Kindle and paperback format on Amazon.He is a professional software engineer. For several years, he worked on video games, including the successful 'Broken Sword' series. He lives in the Howardian Hills, just outside York with his wife, Jillian, and telepathic dog Odie, who is scared of his own shadow (he didn’t get it from me).
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