Totentanz: A Macabre Triptych

Three short stories that delight in the macabre, the gruesome and the grotesque.

Channel Six: a man finds himself isolated and alone in an unfamiliar post-Communist country, with only the television for company. But what are the images on Channel Six? What do they mean? Who is the man in the hospital bed?

Z: a bite, a fever, and a man becomes trapped in the living prison of the undead. What horrors lie in wait for the sentient living dead? What gruesome impulses impel their rotting limbs?

The Great Meliakoff: the world's greatest magician is giving his final performance, but why is he going into retirement? Can he really bring a woman back from the dead, as he claims? And just what role does the strange dwarf Azamat have to play?

This triptych of horror fiction will delight die-hard ghouls and fearful newcomers alike.

Around 9,500 words.