The Haunted Traveler Vol. 1 Issue 1
Welcome to the first issue of The Haunted Traveler; a roaming anthology seeking to collect the strange and the wild stories that we all carry. Those words hidden in the deep dark that linger around. Weasel Press is proud to have released this first collection of material and is excited to do more anthologies in the future. The Haunted Traveler is a non-profit, Horror and Science Fiction anthology that accepts a wide variety of art media such as photography, short fiction, creative non-fiction, digital artwork and more. Our anthology publishes twice a year. To find out more information about our submission process, please review our submission guidelines. Our first issue was released on March 28, 2014 and we couldn’t be more excited to feature the explosive talent that has been submitted to us. Our idea is to have an anthology roaming around parts of the world with a collection of frightening and strange stories; a mysterious anthology with a collection of ghosts.
Welcome to the first issue of The Haunted Traveler; a roaming anthology seeking to collect the strange and the wild stories that we all carry. Those words hidden in the deep dark that linger around. Weasel Press is proud to have released this first collection of material and is excited to do more anthologies in the future. The Haunted Traveler is a non-profit, Horror and Science Fiction anthology that accepts a wide variety of art media such as photography, short fiction, creative non-fiction, digital artwork and more. Our anthology publishes twice a year. To find out more information about our submission process, please review our submission guidelines. Our first issue was released on March 28, 2014 and we couldn’t be more excited to feature the explosive talent that has been submitted to us. Our idea is to have an anthology roaming around parts of the world with a collection of frightening and strange stories; a mysterious anthology with a collection of ghosts.
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<strong>The</strong> Drak’Krali<br />
Ian Nafziger<br />
I am Yig, and I am You. I am around You; I am within You;<br />
I am without You. I am everywhere, and nowhere; as such, I<br />
can take any form I choose, just as I appear as words on this<br />
paper to You, for words are gates. Some of these gates transcend<br />
time; others simply cross space. Such is the case with the<br />
world you see now, orbiting the star of Thuban, which rests in<br />
the tail of the Serpent you call Draco. See the people called the<br />
Drak’Krali which I have made…<br />
In the ancient city of Drak’Toor, surrounded by endless<br />
wastes and crowned by glass spires cracking from the countless<br />
millennia of wind, the Drak’Krali male writhes. Nightmares<br />
hold his powerful form in a grip more substantial than<br />
the darkness he is engulfed in, and through small nostrils,<br />
the reptilian pushes his panicked breath into the Underworld.<br />
Taloned hands grip at the cushion he is situated on<br />
as he fights to control the images flashing through his mind’s<br />
eye. Sensations of searing heat, cracking whips, and cackling<br />
voices take over the reality the dream is impressing on him,<br />
until with a shriek, the reptile-man awakes with a single<br />
thought.<br />
“Leave me alone!” With his fearful exclamation, the tanscaled<br />
lizard sits up on the cushion as he grabs the hilt of the<br />
roomookt. His fingers hold the leathery grip with a ferocious<br />
panic-induced strength as slit eyes dart around the small
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