Mask of the Macabre

Four short tales of Victorian terror, each bound to the other by a chilling thread. The date is January 10th 1866 and the snow is falling thick on the blood soaked streets of a murderous London… Mask of The Macabre - A travelling magician appears with a gruesome show. But what secret does it hide? Doctor Harvey - Bethlem lunatic asylum's newest patient has a story to tell, but how will he tell it to his doctor? Memento Mori - A photographer is given a mysterious assignment with disturbing consequences. The New Costume. - The entertainer discovers a new string to his bow and gives the finest performance of his career. (13,000 words in total)

http://davidhaynesfiction.weebly.com David Haynes has been making up stories since he was very young. His first story entitled, "How the Greenhouse Actually Got Smashed, Dad!" got him into trouble and went unpublished. Nevertheless, the stories continued and the desire to write them down grew stronger. David now writes stories in the genre he loves the most - the dark, mysterious and delicious world of horror! The two main influences on his writing are Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe who he considers masters of the shadowy world. So far he has written a collection of sinister stories set on the dark streets of Victorian London and in the gloriously opulent Paris of the nineteenth century. Both represent his love for the history of our greatest cities and the dark deeds that were done on their shadowy streets. One day he hopes to be able to write full-time in order to get all those stories out of his own mind and into the minds of others. The question is - dare you read anymore?