The Tension of a Coming Storm

The Tension of a Coming Storm by Adrian Ludens

​In this book, you will be introduced to twenty newly-collected encounters with darkness, a tangled forest of stories readers of the macabre and strange will eagerly get lost in.

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A man traveling cross-country is shocked to find the same mysterious figure waiting for him at each new destination in "The Runner, Stranded."

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An angry man pushes the bounds of his own sanity by entombing the young son of a former coworker in "Inside a Refrigerator."

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Learn a startling truth behind the Mothman legend, how Jack the Ripper relocated to the Yukon during the Gold Rush, and what drove a tortured author named Poe to his early demise.

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Here are combined new, never-before-released stories with recently published works into a collection designed to flow from the pages into your fingers and hold you tight as you are transported into the emotions and fears of fully-fleshed characters and their anguished tales. You who revel in the strangely mystical and shockingly uncomfortable will certainly delight in the dark mass presented within these pages. And you won't regret a single word.

"Twenty tales of sickos, strangeness, and suburban soul-searching." ~ Jack Wells, Reviewer and Author of Monochrome Noir

"The glimpses of the worlds Ludens' characters inhabit have an extra dimension to them beyond many I have seen in contemporary horror fiction. It's like standing in front of a mirror. You see yourself and what's behind you if you stand directly in front of the glass. It's that extra dimension, the peripheral world in which the narrative at hand exists, that Ludens so skillfully implies, that sets these tales apart."

~ ~ John S. McFarland, author of The Dark Walk Forward

"Ludens's collection is a must for every horror fan. Beautifully written and highly imaginative, it is a celebration of the art of storytelling not to be missed."

~ Elana Gomel, author of The Hungry Ones and The Cryptids

"All of these are horror stories, but they demonstrate that, at their core, they're about people. I find a lot of the Brothers Grimm reflected in them. This is a book that could be taken camping, and brought out around the fire to read out loud while the s'mores digest, eyeing the other people around the camp fire suspiciously."​

~ Carl R. Jennings, Reviewer for Phantasmagoria Magazine and author of Just About Anyone