Pennies for Charon

A prophetess steals from the Boatman of the Dead to regain her powers. A god who has never known human emotion falls in love. Guilt, fear, passion and revenge.

The river Styx separates the living from the underworld. To cross it, the dead must pay the ferryman. Some are lucky, sent on their way with coins for their passage placed on their eyelids by loved ones. Some arrive unprepared. For them, their coin is their story, the confession of who they were, how they lived, the regrets and guilt they carry, how they died.

Dark tales laden with great, hidden power. But someone knows their secret. And she’s come to claim that power for her own.

For three thousand years the careless gift of a long ago god kept her alive. Alive, but ageing. Withering. Until she was nothing but a husk, sealed into a bottle, like a genie in a stoppered lamp. The god’s gift kept her alive, but it is the memory of the fear she use to wreak, and the power it gave her, for which she has lived.

That and the desire to feel it again.

Ten individual tales of murder, revenge, guilt and obsession. All your Queen of Creepy favourites are here, from the body horror of Calyptra Mortiferum to the psychological torment of Buried, along with five brand new tales to give you the shivers.

Step into Charon's boat, and feast on this collection of horror stories, wrapped up in a fairytale romance darker than the river that flows through the underworld.