When the Mad King Rides By is a collection of 20 short stories (244 pages) written by Ian Taylor Presnell (no A.I.) The collection includes scary stories, thrillers, Sci-fi, post-apocalyptic fiction, literary fiction, historical fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, even a solitary novel-in-verse! There's a little bit of everything. Some of the stories take place in fantastical worlds, on different continents, and/or different centuries!
A cautionary legend about addiction connected to the urban legend
POLYBIUS arcade machine, a scary story to tell around the campfire about an ex-con janitor working overnights in an American mall, in Upstate NY, during the mid-90's, with some ancient evil DOG, a memorable retrospective concerning a legendary carnival barker, written by his doting daughter around the time of the Great Depression, an astonishing novel-in-verse about a girl living in the Antebellum South who sees visions of a local Preacher hiding a sinister secret, an account of the hungry spirit
Windigo from Algonquian folklore by a son whose Father vanished decades ago in the forest behind their family home, a flashback from a girl growing up in the middle of the Vietnam War during a Publishers Clearing House-like sweepstakes gone horribly wrong, a short tale of an unlikely hero attempting to best an evil genie
djinn living in the dangerous Hopa Forests, a frozen haunting story about deadly regrets and self on Lake Superior
Kitchi-Gami as winter sets in, one-hundred-and-fifty-years-ago, and many more!
