Death Masque

This book is a series of six short stories all revolving around the them of death. In Death by Any Another Name, a 19th century couple is visited by a strange, cloaked woman who goes by a name all living things fear. She declared her task a simple one. But the couple, united by a pure and powerful love, are determined to deny her what she's come for. There are several encounters between them, but in the end love has the final say. This time. In Killer Clothes, a private detective existing in a of vast world of techno wonders, is a police detective assigned the most baffling case of his career. There are a series of deaths in the city which seem, at first look, to be nothing more than a random unconnected series in which there has been no crime. Something tells the detective the deaths are connected murders. Murders committed with a highly original weapon of choice.
Murder is Murder is a crime story about three people driven by dark desires. A man with a married woman for a lover has agreed to murder her husband. But allegiances are often times not what they seem. She has only one real allegiance. To herself and her unquenchable lusts. Who, in the end, will be left standing? Anyone? The Mirror is a simple straight forward tale about a man with the ability to see what most other people do not see when they look in the mirror. His true self. And it is by far the most darkly illuminating discovery of his life. It frightens him like nothing else ever could and assaults his sanity with a merciless and relentless gaze. The truth is the last thing he ever wanted to see. Wishing Well is an new take on an old idea. Putting money into a wishing well in order to be granted wishes. But what both man and dog learn in this story is that you need pay close attention to the wording of your wish. You might just run into a dark minded well looking for you to slip up and twist your words into a wish with severe and everlasting consequences. In The Human Experiment: Dark Origins, Dark Ends, a man faces the darkest and most terrifying news which go far beyond his own human imagination. The origins of man lie not in any of the accepted versions drawn up by both scientific and religious minds alike. No, the origins of man do not lie here on the planet Earth at all. And as for the question which has been contemplated for so long by so many: Why are we here? The answer is the scariest, most bone chilling in the entire history of man.