Strange Games In Dark Places
Four impossible games. Four dark places. Every move has a price.
A ruined con artist boards the world's most luxurious airship to steal a legendary ruby-alongside the brilliant swindler who took everything from him. But the jewel on display is a fake, the real prize belongs to a ruthless arms dealer, and everyone aboard appears to be playing a different game.
In an isolated frontier town, a crew of outlaws tunnels beneath a railroad vault in search of buried treasure. The gold, however, is merely a decoy. Something much older lies beneath the consecrated ground-and it has been waiting for them.
Six years after abandoning a championship match he was certain to win, a chess grandmaster accepts an invitation to face an unknown opponent in a secluded villa. With every move, the match becomes less about victory and more about the secret that drove him from the board.
At the bottom of the deepest ocean trench, seven explorers investigate an impossible signal buried for millions of years. Then the signal changes. It responds. And the crew must survive forty-eight hours before their vessel can even attempt to return to the surface.
Strange Games in Dark Places brings together four atmospheric tales spanning comedic adventure, occult horror, psychological suspense, and deep-sea terror. Richly written and darkly imaginative, each story explores deception, obsession, greed, and the terrible cost of discovering what should have remained hidden.
Each tale is followed by its own glossary of advanced vocabulary and expressions.
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