Into the Darkness: Stories - Volume 1 - Steve Stred - Dark Tales Collection

Aug 2, 2026

Dark, serialized fiction collection centered on Simon and other unsettling figures, blending grief, memory, and Halloween-season atmosphere into haunting narratives. Volume 1 assembles multiple standalone stories under one cohesive tone, moving from the perspective of a ghostly child to scenes of danger, loss, and eerie encounters. Each piece stands alone while reinforcing the book’s overarching exploration of darkness, longing, and the strange comfort of returning to one’s world.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

FormatPDF

Pages128

Reading Time3 h 17 min

AccessFree to download

Foreword

Snow on a Clear Night

A Broken Man

A Warrior ’s Call

Alone

Flayed Flesh

Do You Remember?

Pumpkin Kicker

Grave Digger

The Dare

The Bleeder

Out of Gas

The Screams

The New Girl

A Discovery

Eric, in a Small Town

Every Town Has That House

Salvation

Tradition

Won’t You Open the Door?

On the Mountain

Publication History

Into the Darkness: Stories VOL 1 Steve Stred Black Void Publishing [OceanofPDF](OceanofPDF. com)[.](OceanofPDF. com)[ com](OceanofPDF. com) Ebook ISBN: 9781990260315 Paperback ISBN: 9781990260322 Cover art by Don Noble at Rooster Republic Press. Copyright © 2023 by Steve Stred & Black Void Publishing All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher or author, except as permitted by Canadian copyright law. [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com) Contents Foreword Snow on a Clear Night ABroken Man A Warrior ’s Call Alone Flayed Flesh Do You Remember? Pumpkin Kicker Grave Digger The Dare The Bleeder Out of Gas The Screams The New Girl A Discovery Eric, in a Small Town Every Town Has That House Salvation Tradition Won’t You Open the Door? On the Mountain Publication History [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com) Foreword What you’ve got in your hands – whether physical or digital – is special tome. I hope it’ll be special to you. When I started out in this writing game, I wrote just for me. I still preorder all my own books, so that I know I’ll have one preorder. I take nothing for granted and every single person who has every read any of my pieces of fiction, I appreciate. Even if you hated it. That’s right, I do. You’ve allowed yourself to visit my worlds and I’m forever thankful for that. The collections (VOL1 and VOL2) make up all my externally published stories (of various lengths) since my first acceptance – forever grateful to you for that, Kevin J. Kennedy!– until recently. At least stories that have aged enough that I can republish them. There are a few from 2023 that haven’t been included in here but will appear in future volumes. The reason I’m releasing these two volumes is two-fold. The first is that I know I have some people who dig my work, who simply can’t afford to buy every anthology I’m in. Those people, those completionists, deserve to be able to collect my work and enjoy it when they can. The second – and this is one of the big drivers of everything I do in life – is to show my son ‘you can.’ You can accomplish anything, and you should be proud of what you create. I’m beyond proud of every story in these two releases. Unlike my other releases, I won’t be having an afterword or an acknowledgement section, as I’d like the stories to stand on their own. So, to wrap this up, thank you to every publisher that has taken a chance on my work. Thank you to Don Noble and Rooster Republic Press for the covers for these two volumes. Thank you to David Sodergren who either read and/or provided feedback on almost every single story in these two volumes. Read his work. He’s phenomenal. And thank you to Amanda and Auryn for constantly making me laugh. Until we meet again, Steve [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com) Snow on a CleaȒ Night Simon was dead. Sitting on the front step of his parent’s house, he waited for his best friend, Mike to get home from school. Mike lived across the street and didn’t mind that Simon wore a sheet over his body. Two eyeholes cut into the thin piece of material showcased Simon’s black eyes. Mike found that even without seeing his friends face anymore, the eyes divulged how Simon was feeling just as well as any facial expression ever could. This was Simon’s favorite time of the year. Fall. The leaves had changed colors, people started to decorate and put out blow ups of zombies, vampires and scary clowns. Neighbors raked their yards, kids and dogs alike running and jumping in the piles. The coats were thicker, gloves keeping hands warm. The summer was Simon’s least favorite season because Mike went away on vacation. During the summer months, Simon would bide his time. Hour after hour he’d wait on the front step, for August to end and for school to return. It had been four years since Simon died. Since that day, Mike had grown older an

FAQs

这本书的内容结构是什么？

本卷为《Into the Darkness: Stories》第一卷，收录多篇可独立阅读的短篇故事，并在前言中说明这些外部出版作品的汇编范围。

《Snow on a Clear Night》的核心氛围与人物关系是什么？

故事以已故的Simon为起点，在万圣节前后的季节变化中等待朋友Mike回家，并通过“鬼魂与挚友”的互动建立情感与恐惧并存的氛围。

作者在前言中为什么推出这两卷故事？

作者提到一是让喜欢自己作品、却无法购买所有合集的人也能收集并阅读；二是希望用创作经历鼓励自己的儿子，证明“你可以”。

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