On a Winter's Eve Read online

more to Burroughs than Tarzan, and greater depths to Robert E. Howard than Conan. Some of you know exactly what I’m talking about.

  And if you enjoyed this story you might be interested in my other works. Please visit my author page for descriptions of stories you may find appealing. I’m working feverishly to add to my published library, so check back often for any new additions.

  And thanks.

  Best regards,

  Chris L. Adams

  List of Works

  Currently available (listed in order of publication):

  The Valley of Despair (Tales of Despair Book I)

  On A Winter’s Eve

  The Treasure of Akram el-Amin

  The Blonde Goddess of Tikka-Tikka (Tales of the Tomahawk Book I)

  The Cosmos of Despair (Tales of Despair Book II)

  Coming soon:

  The Banshee of the Atacama (Tales of the Tomahawk Book II)

  Once upon a time… on a cold and dreary winter’s night…

  For many the frightful remembrances of an awful event suffered during youth fade with time. For others, however, the dreadful scene swells with passing years, driving sanity from its path.

  Decades after a night of terror an old man, his mind teetering on the ragged edge of madness by his childhood recollections, determines to face his fears by awakening the world to the monstrous visions that haunt his dreams.

  Now he sits down to pen a strange narrative describing an event his family suffered while living in an isolated cabin during a blizzard on a night of soul-wrenching horror.

  Inspired by a desire to write a story that was a melding of pulp icons H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, this short story was conceived with the intent to capture the building of horror of which the Man Who Was Providence was so capable, while simultaneously mating a Lovecraftian plot to a hero that might have been penned by the same hand that hammered out stories such as Red Nails and Almuric.

  This quick read is a short-story.