When the Mad King Rides By: Polybius

Bys: Presnell, Ian Taylor and Presnell, Ian

When the Mad King Rides By is the debut collection of 20 short stories (246 pages) written by Ian Taylor Presnell (no AI never AI). The collection includes scary stories, thrillers, Sci-fi, post-apocalyptic fiction, literary fiction, historical fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, even a solitary novel-in-verse There's a little bit of everything. Some of the stories take place in fantastical worlds, on different continents, and/or different centuries

A cautionary thriller about addiction, connected to the urban legend POLYBIUS arcade machine; A scary story to tell around the campfire about an ex-con janitor working overnights at an American mall, in the mid-90's, with some ancient evil DOG; A memorable retrospective concerning a legendary carnival barker written by his doting daughter during the Great Depression; An astonishing novel-in-verse about a girl living in the Antebellum South who sees visions of a local Preacher hiding a sinister secret; A chilling account of the hungry spirit Windigo from Algonquian folklore, by a son whose Father vanished decades ago in the forest behind their family home; A flashback from a woman, who grew up in the middle of the Vietnam War, during a Publishers Clearing House-like sweepstakes in San Diego gone horribly wrong; A short tale of an unlikely hero attempting to best an evil djinn living in the dangerous Hopa Forests; A frozen haunting story about deadly regrets and self on Lake Superior (Kitchi-Gami ), as winter sets in, one-hundred-and-fifty-years-ago, and many more

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D917Z9MV
• ISBN13: 9798332350344
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"