Black Carnival

About the Book

"Visitor To The Museum": Deals with an American visiting a famous French museum--and ultimately meeting with the same fate as his admired artist.

"A Man Who Painted Nightmares": A painter´s dream guides his hand in creating a work, though the dream is a premonition that affects his very life.

"Rebirth": A photograph of an infant leads a man to make a shocking discovery of the baby´s identity.

"Awakening Of The Dark": A filmmaker collaborates with a rock star to create a movie that promotes the widespread practice of Satanism.

"Witch´s Pen": A bizarre woman leads a curious individual to her home, where she uses him to finish her doings.

"Tara": A successful author relies on motivation of a different sort when her creativity is lost.

"Under The Moonlight": A daily trip to the attic in the witching hour is of special importance to a person.

"Claustrophobia!": A man suffering from the ailment sees a doctor with an unusual technique to help him get well.

"Whitegrass Mortuary": Involving two workers of the graveyard shift, one eventually rids himself of the mischievous other in an ingenious fashion.

"The Host´s Game": A contest causes a participant to enter another realm of reality.

"´Mystakeeted´ Wine": A man finds himself as a prime factor in the making of wine.

"A Cure For Density": Tells of a cure for the world´s overpopulation, courtesy of a concerned professor.

"Darkness Of The Icon": Describes that of an odd individual who is secretly looked upon, and displayed in great esteem, by a store worker who believes the strange man is the Antichrist.

"Traveling Show": A reporter investigates a carnival and finds an old friend who works there.

"Up On The Rooftop": A nighttime prankster--and tormentor of his next-door neighbor--suffers greatly because of his actions.

"The Collision Of ´644´": An airplane takes a disastrous route because of one man´s gripping obsession.

"Early Morning Oddity": Curiousness about a mysterious parked car leads to horror for two laborers.

"Lord Rellistrox": A lord´s hedonism is the perfect excuse for passing on a disease that infects an entire community.

"The Shelter": A man comes up with a fiery solution to a city´s problem.

About the Author

Richard Charles Bruno III was born in San Pablo, California, on July 12, 1968. His first offering to the macabre was Overheard From The Devil's Chamber.