1.   “I saw something in the mirror that shouldn’t have been there. Now, I’m afraid it’s after me.”   It was the last thing Hans told Ursula. The last words she heard from him before his disappearance. She remembered it clearly, what she had ignored back then, because she did not know what to make of Hans’ rambling. She had thought it the beginning of a story, some idea Hans wanted to run by her before he set it on paper. Hans often did that, offering snatches of half-formed

1. He played the piano in a cabin by the sea. She lived in a cottage in the mountains and painted wild landscapes with gaping precipices...

When the green creeping things crawled from the forests on the hill towards the town below, there was only one thought in the townsfolk's...

“There is a thing about houses. You feel it as soon as you walk in – especially if it’s an old place. But any house that’s been lived in...

We were young, love, when the end of the world came. In a country of brown autumn leaves, we were the flowers of spring. The final notes of

Note: In 1981, a set of female-shaped clay statuettes was discovered in the village of Poduri, Bacău county, Romania, dating from around...

1  It was a tradition with us. We would gather on the terrace in front of our offices every Midsummer Eve as the sun slowly went down...

December 20th 2121 (Earth Year)/Month 7 Colonial year 2 (Mars Colonial Time Measurement) My dear, I have been sitting for three hours...

There were once two sisters who knew the way to travel between the worlds. They lived on an island with forests and tall mountains.

Walk not alone through the dungeons of night. Lucas was sure he had heard those words before. He had no idea if they were a famous line –...