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TWISTED ROADS – AN ANTHOLOGY OF TWISTED TALES – VOLUME 1
The world is but a twisted globe, spinning round and round, allowing light to breathe life onto its weary bones. But, where there’s light, there’s always darkness, and hiding in the shadows are things our imagination cannot even begin to understand. So buckle up and venture forward on a journey through thirty-one short stories, stories bathed in blood, stories dipped in darkness, stories that will take you through the veil of sanity and onto the twisted roads of madness.
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TWISTED ROADS – AN ANTHOLOGY OF TWISTED TALES – VOLUME 2
It’s time to venture back into the darkness with another thirty-one demented tales of the wickedness that infects us all, a muddy collection of stories intertwined by a sickness that knows no end, and gives no reprieve.
So buckle up and prepare for another ride as we once again drive headlong down the ever twisting roads of madness, where your trust is never to be given away lightly, as no one along these roads are who, or what they seem.
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POEMS FOR THOSE ABOUT TO DIE
Delve through the darkness, as we bring you 44 poems carved in the skin of its host, on a journey towards self discovery, where the monster is not an unknown beast haunting the shadows, but hiding deep within who we are. Come, join us in death, so the truth will let us see, who we really are…
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POEMS FOR THE JILTED LOVER
It’s time for those of broken heart to rise and claim what is theirs, to strive and purge the beast from within, or from out there. Join us as we’re once again stuck between two shards of glass with 44 deranged poems of love pushed over the edge, and onto, the twisted roads of madness…
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POEMS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SINNED
Face the truth, for there is no saviour coming to wash your deepest sins away, instead there is only the madness of what you have done. So, why not join us as we sell our already rotten souls to the highest bidder and enjoy 44 twisted poems soaked in the blood of the innocent. What do you have to lose that is not already lost
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TWISTED ROADS – AN ANTHOLOGY OF TWISTED TALES – VOLUME THREE
If it is the things that crawl in the dead of night you wish to see, then look no further for here you have found it here, twisted insanity at its upmost level, that will make the very walls of the world you inhabit grow teeth and bite.
So, sit down and bear witness to thirty-one tales of weirdness, while the roads that ever twist, grab at you, like hands from the other side, trying to drag you down into their endless pit of madness.
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POEMS FOR THE BITTER END
Welcome to the bitter end of all things, our time is done, this world, this life, this very existence we have so pathetically wasted, is now at its crescendo.
So, before the light fades, sit back and immerse yourself in all that was, and ever will be, with 44 poems that will ease your journey into the nirvana of nothingness, and lead you towards the light, through the twisted eye of madness…
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THE ROUNDHEAD – DEFINITIVE EDITION
Marty Towns didn’t know the story you’re about to read, a story he believed he had written, would free an ancient evil that was trapped just outside the edge of our reality. An evil born, without sin, without a soul, that hungers for ours to fuel its one desire, vengeance on he who imprisoned it. As each victim falls, they rise again as the beasts dark herald, diseased by its touch, forced to foretell of its coming to the next who shares its words, the next to feel its cold embrace.
And as the world struggles to survive against the beasts path of destruction, another battle is fought, in-between the words of the story, on another plane of existence, and it will be this battle that will decide who survives.
Will you dare read it? Will you dare share it?
Will you become the next victim of,
THE ROUNDHEAD?
Definitive Edition Bonus Features
The Original Roundhead Short Story.
The Complete Blog Version Of The Roundhead, Including All Preludes and Poems.
The Dagan – A Bonus Short Story Inspired By The Roundhead.
Facing Your Fears – Original Concept-Art By Yazgar. (paperback only)
Fear The Roundhead – A Preview Of The Sequel To The Roundhead.
DON’T MISS OUT ON THE FULLY FLESHED OUT VERSION OF THE SHORT STORY, THAT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF READERS!
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A TWISTED HALLOWEEN
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Other Notable Releases
A JOLLY TWISTEDLY CHRISTMAS
A TWISTED NEW YEARS EVE SPECIAL
Future titles to be scheduled
FEAR THE ROUNDHEAD
DISMEMBERED TALES AND ENTRAILS – VOLUME ONE
DISMEMBERED TALES AND ENTRAILS – VOLUME TWO
DISMEMBERED TALES AND ENTRAILS – VOLUME THREE
TWISTED ROADS – AN ANTHOLOGY OF TWISTED TALES – VOLUME FOUR
TWISTED ROADS – AN ANTHOLOGY OF TWISTED TALES – VOLUME FIVE
TWISTED ROADS – AN ANTHOLOGY OF TWISTED TALES – VOLUME SIX
DARK STARS – FURTHER THAN MAN
DARK STARS – OMEGA BELT
BAD DAYS
CURSE OF THE ROUNDHEAD
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“Does it hurt?” She asks sheepishly, trying to mask her smile behind a mixture of hands and hair. “What do you think?” He replies coldly. “I don’t know, it depends what drugs they’ve got you on.” “They haven’t gone me on anything, apparently my records say I’m allergic to almost everything that would numb the …
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Corey closes his eyes and allows the sound of the paint escaping the can to be his guide, moving his arms in an almost rhythmic fashion. Images dance wildly in his mind and escape through his hands, painting across the empty canvas before him. It seems like forever before he finally opens his eyes and …
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“A card by any other name, would not be a card,” he says with a thoughtful pause as he looks out into the sea of a few thousand faces, all focused on his every word. He smiles, winks playfully before spinning around and exploding into a cavalcade of roses. The crowd sits in stunned silence, …
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Who is Matthew Tonks?
What an interesting question, one, I know the answer to, intimately, in fact, I am that very man. Hailing from Tasmania, buried deep at the arse end of Australia, people are surprised to find out after reading my stories that I’m a relatively sane forty something year old, happily married, father of one, employed full time and dreams of dark disturbing things that any sane person would never even contemplate thinking of.
But it’s all true.
I’ve toyed with writing for most of my adult life, but have always found the peg a writer must fit into is not the shape I wished to be. My writing can be described as lamenting, long, concussive (yes it smashes you in the head), compulsive, and stuffed with rhythmic dialogue and violence, yes, let’s not forget the violence.
My own opinion on my writing is this.
‘You see, I don’t just want the words to seep into your mind, but into your soul. Showing you images of blood and beauty through, volatile language, violence, sex, love and sin. My muse takes different shapes, and every now and then you can see her shining her wicked smile in some of my most dastardly stories, tempting you with her promises, but ripping your heart out instead.’
How This Blog Began
It was April of 2016 when I decided I was getting no where in the world of writing, not because I didn’t have ideas, not because I didn’t believe I was terribly bad at writing, it was, in my eyes, because I didn’t have the focus, the ambition, and the tools to do what I needed to do, to get all those ideas in my head down in some sort understandable format.
So I came up with a plan, to challenge myself to three hundred and sixty-five days of creation, giving myself one hour a day to write, and only thirty minutes of editing time afterwards, before I posted the story, sure, there were mistakes that happened, but over time, I got a lot of them sorted, and didn’t need to do any BIG changes to any story for the last few months.
It was simple at first, a short story, squeezed from my skull, and sent out into the world. Before the first week was up, another idea took shape, each and every Wednesday was to be called YouChallenge day, where someone out there would throw something at me and I’d have to write a short story based on that idea, oh, what fun that will be.
Then every Thursday and Sunday the page was subjected to pieces of the novel I’d been working on at the time, slowly releasing it piece by piece for what at the time was, I thought, your reading pleasure. I mean, this is how the short stories started in the first place, as a way to exorcise all the little, crazy stories that wouldn’t fit anywhere out of my head, over the course of the first few months I realised the work I needed to do on my novel was more extensive than I thought. So I dropped it, instead concentrating on the blog and shorts, thinking, I’d find time eventually to get back on track with the novel.
Now, with the challenge complete, and a full years worth of ideas bashed out onto paper, the real fun stuff begins, the novel, sits in the back-burner still, as new ideas formed from the blog have taken precedent, which, in a way is kinda cool, stick around for the ride, it’s going to be fun, I promise.
Matthew Tonks
