With the worldly experience of a modern explorer and the heart of a Gothic horror romancer, Jon Aristides takes us on a journey from two thousand years ago...right up until tomorrow! In twenty-seven tales of man's most enduring struggle - between life and death - Aristides provides shocks and food for thought at every turn of a page. In the tradition of history's great chiller writers, he plumbs the hearts and minds of his diverse characters and produces menacing tales of greed, vanity, dashed hopes, and sudden tragedy - all of which remind the reader of the smouldering bonfires of his own mortality.