Uncanny Tales

Prologue

[By Adam Ocegueda and Avery Owen]

The stories you're about to read are the most bizarre, disturbing, and supernatural events that have Never occurred, but just because they never happened doesn't mean they'll be so easy to forget. They'll be imprinted in your mind so clearly that you'll undoubtedly be left debating your reality, and constantly finding yourself unsure of what's true and what's not.

That's not a very fair feeling, is it?

The feeling of indecisiveness, not knowing what it is you really want, being trapped in the endless ticking of the paranoia clock.

Do you want this? Do you want that? Oh, joy, a third option presents itself, and then a fourth, and then a fifth, and it goes on and on and on...

It never fucking seems to end, does it? It's even worse when you're unhappy, the voices in your head know no end of insults and taboo suggestions of self-infliction and suicide. Every voice wants something different from you, tearing heart and soul apart from the synapses, so many different paths at the crossroads, and you don't know what route to take...

You find yourself lost, and afraid, disturbed and in endless anguish, and...

Well, that's exactly how these Uncanny Tales will leave you...

The story of mourning father and the black-eyed girl showing up in the dead of night, or the hollywood superstar who fucks too heavily with darkness and finds himself the victim of possession. Perhaps you'd find your tastes lean more towards haunted libraries and late night study sessions, as most college students are so keen for.

If those don't suit you, there's always the world of the woodland creatures that hide themselves in our existence as adolescents in the unknowing town of Hallow Oaks - A town notorious for its serenity, its tranquility, it's beautiful eccentricities that conceal unsolved murders, disappearances without a trace, and mutilations best left undescribed in this brief but to the point forewarning...

The truth, it seems, is that these tales of woe and terror can only truly be enjoyed by those who are disturbed and anguished...