Step into a world where every page drips with madness and horror. The Twisted Roads to My Madness unveils Matthew Tonks’ collection of twisted tales, each a dark window into the macabre and surreal. These aren’t just stories—they’re glimpses into an unsettling universe where reality warps and chaos reigns. With vivid, grotesque imagery, each tale pulls you deeper into the unknown, leaving you questioning what is real.
Perfect for fans of eerie flash fiction, The Twisted Roads to My Madness delivers bite-sized horrors that will haunt your thoughts long after you’ve turned the final page. Once you step onto these roads, there’s no telling where your mind will end up.
Take the journey—if you dare to question your sanity.
It’s Not a Normal Friday 13th
For countless eons, darkness has gripped the 13th Friday of any chosen month in its soiled bosom. No month is safe from the day’s sinister touch, and now, we travel these twisted roads together. Encased within this book are 13 tales, each cursed under the sour moon of a pox-ridden Friday, paired with 13 ill-tasting pieces of prose designed to both tantalize and repulse.
It’s Not a Normal Friday 13th takes you far beyond typical horror—each story steeped in madness, betrayal, and survival. Reality bends and breaks, drawing you deeper into nightmares you can’t escape.
The unlucky day has come—and it’s claimed you.
2020TOO
2020 tore the world apart, but by 2022, the cracks have only deepened, and the madness festers. What you hold isn’t just a book—it’s a fragment of something larger, a puzzle born from the chaos and twisted beyond comprehension. Each page bleeds with twenty nightmares, scorched in the flames of insanity. You’ll have five minutes—just five—to slip into another’s mind. Five minutes to question, shudder, dance with shadows, and do whatever you like.
A whisper in the dark, a shadow on the edge of your vision. The snap of reality breaking apart. Faces you don’t recognise, voices that don’t belong. The world begins to slip sideways, leaving only shattered fragments behind. There’s no right or wrong here—just twisted moments binding us together, while even more horrors wait in the dark.
The cracks are too deep—there’s no way out.
A Twisted Kiss on New Year’s Eve
Step into the final hours of the year with A Twisted Kiss on New Year’s Eve, where thirty-one dark and twisted stories wait to pull you gently, yet irresistibly, into the shadows. These aren’t just tales—they’re promises you’ll never keep, clinging to every word, pulling you further into the unknown. You’ll have five fleeting minutes to slip into another’s skin, five minutes to deceive, reflect, and destroy—five minutes to do almost anything.
Mirrored reflections stare back, warped and cracked—resolutions shattered before they’re even made. Death teeters on the edge, and humanity unravels at the seams. The final toll of the year echoes like a distant chime, whispers of madness swirling in the cold night air. Time fractures, bleeding out the last moments of the year, while dark secrets linger, waiting to be unearthed.
The new year won’t save you—it’s already too late.
A Twistedly Jolly Christmas
’Tis the season—but not the one you know. In A Twistedly Jolly Christmas, thirty-one twisted tales of holiday horror await. These are no ordinary festive stories—they offer five minutes to peek into someone else’s holiday nightmare. Five minutes to see joy twist into fear, warmth freeze into terror, and holiday cheer shatter into pieces.
Beneath the glow of Christmas lights, shadows creep and sinister smiles crack through the merriment. Santa’s list hides unspeakable truths, the elves know your darkest fears, and the clock ticks toward a midnight drenched in madness. The Christmas spirit is about to be torn apart.
This year, there’s no joy under the tree—just fear.
A Twisted Halloween
As the shadows stretch across the sky, A Twisted Halloween rises from the dark—thirty-one sinister tales, each eager to invade your mind. These aren’t just stories—they’re moments of terror, five fleeting minutes where anything can happen. Each page drags you deeper, pulling you beyond the veil of sanity, where twisted nightmares stir, and the line between life and death fades into smoke.
Whispers of dread drift through the cold air as time splinters and reality unravels. Beneath the surface of each tale, secrets wait to be unearthed, and the reflection staring back at you is twisted into something unrecognizable. Once you step into this nightmare, you won’t come out the same.
You can’t outrun the dark—it’s already here.
2020
2020 cracked the world wide open, shattering everything we thought was safe. The madness seeped into every corner, twisting reality into something unrecognisable. What you hold isn’t just a book—it’s a fragment of that chaos, a puzzle torn from the wreckage. Each page bleeds with twenty nightmares, born from the fires of insanity. You’ll have just five minutes—five fleeting moments to question, tremble, and stumble through the darkness of another’s mind.
A distant murmur, a shadow creeping closer. The snap of everything breaking apart. Faces distort, voices that shouldn’t exist whisper in the darkness, and reality crumbles into shattered fragments. There is no right or wrong left—just twisted moments that hold us together, while more horrors lurk in the shadows.
Reality is gone—what’s left is madness.
Breadcrumbs to Madness
What started as a simple challenge spiraled into something far darker. Twenty-four short stories, each born from a fleeting idea, grew into twisted nightmares within the span of 24 hours. What you hold in your hands are those very stories—enlarged, distorted, and filled with madness. Each breadcrumb leads you deeper into a world where reality bends and sanity is nothing more than a fading memory.
The stories in Breadcrumbs to Madness are fragments pulled from the edges of a mind on the brink. Every tale, once a simple post on a blog, has grown into a nightmare waiting to drag you into the unknown. All you have to do is follow the trail.
But be warned—these breadcrumbs lead only to madness.
Dismembered Tales and Entrails
You hold in your hands thirty-one twisted stories, each one a fragment of a puzzle far greater—and darker—than you could ever imagine. Within these pages, tales of peasants, zombies, titans, and shadows collide. Mirrored reflections warp reality, and funerals lead to unexpected destinations. Each story is soaked in the embers of madness, waiting for you to take that fateful step into a world where nothing makes sense.
In Dismembered Tales and Entrails, every tale drags you deeper into a fragmented reality where sanity slips through your fingers. These aren’t just stories—they’re pieces of a broken world, each one more twisted than the last. Five minutes is all it takes to step into the madness.
Once you’re inside, there’s no coming back.
Dark Stars – Firelight
Zander Kane was once a trusted and highly decorated general for the United Federation—until the day he betrayed not only his race, but his own flesh and blood to join the Dark Collective. His only reason? To be with the woman he loved. Now, he rides the stardust and slipstreams, captaining the starship Betha, fighting for the Dark Collective in a desperate bid to free the worlds from the Federation’s ruling grasp.
But the dark doesn’t just exist between the stars—it is in them. As Kane navigates the vast reaches of space, he must confront not only enemies from the Federation, but the darkness within himself. Join him as he races through the stars—and beyond them—where battles aren’t only fought with weapons, but with the choices that shape the universe.
For the darkness in the stars is just the beginning.
Poems For…
Poems For… takes you on a wild, chaotic journey through the many stages of life, exploring moments meant for those who were intended—and those who were not. This isn’t your ordinary collection of poetry. It’s raw, unfiltered, and unapologetic. Each poem dares to tread where others wouldn’t, capturing the beauty, madness, joy, and despair that make up the human experience.
These poems are for those who get it, and those who don’t. Every line in Poems For… is a dive into the chaotic mess of life, touching on emotions and experiences we all face—whether we’re ready for them or not.
Join us, if you dare—because these poems are for everyone, and no one.
Twisted Road
The world is a twisted globe, spinning round and round, allowing light to breathe life onto its weary bones. But where there is light, there is always darkness, lurking just beyond what we can see. In those shadows are things our imagination cannot even begin to understand. The Twisted Roads collection takes you on a journey into that darkness, where reality bends and sanity slips through your fingers.
Buckle up and venture forward through ninety-three twisted short stories, spread across three volumes, each pulling you deeper into the unknown. From where it all began, these tales will guide you down the twisted roads, where you might never find your way back.
The road is waiting—are you brave enough to take the first step?
Twisted Roads - Twisted Horror Stories by Matthew Tonks 