Loners. Introverts. Hermits. Labels attached to those willfully isolated individuals who prefer their own company to the companionship of
others. Not all such lone wolf personalities are birthed, however, but gradually created-molded
over time, perhaps even forced into a solitary existence by circumstances beyond their control.
Witness then,
six such psyche-altering transformations and the grave events that led those involved down a dark, twisted road toward utter
isolation.
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- The slacker son of a best-selling horror novelist finds peace and tranquility on his late father’s personal
desert island oasis, at least until an uninvited guest with malevolent motives floats ashore.
– On
the eve of a weather-related apocalypse, a middle-aged man and teenage girl form a bizarre, uneasy alliance within the stony
confines of a futuristic fall-out shelter.
– A self-professed
hermit discovers little solitude or serenity after volunteering for a government funded project code-named ‘Introvert’.
– An alcoholic
ex-cop attempting to elude his inner demons via a desolate, mountaintop hideaway meets a kindred spirit in the way of an enigmatic,
amnesia-stricken woman whose own checkered past might well prove fatal to them both.
– A psychiatrist
comes to the aid of a veteran soldier unable to shake the horrors of a past battle that claimed his soul-mate, only to discover
the that the scars of war can birth the most malevolent of demons.
– With
great dread and trepidation, a pre-teen boy with definitive loner tendencies is forced to partake in the hellish rituals of
the annual family reunion.
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Contrary to public opinion, there can be tangible reasons behind such stark, anti-social conduct,
such as the deep, permanent psychological scarring that can occur from recalling unspeakable terrors from one’s past.
Thus to those referred to as ‘Recluse’, living a solitary existence is not nearly so
much a preference as it is destiny.
Now available at Double-Dragon Publishing. Also available
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