Thrice Told Tales

by Robert W. Walker

THRICE -TOLD TALES
from THE COLLATERIAL GLAND
(*a gland in certain insects that secrets a gluey substance upon which eggs are laid to protect them against the world)

or

Assorted Short Stories of Robert W. Walker, a Hardliner Horror and Suspense Novelist without any agenda save entertainment…

Between each story, the author makes comments on the purpose and the crafting of his work. The story span the emotions from terror to laughter, intrigue to suspense, the supernatural and the frightfulness of reality. Much of Mr. Walker's work might be called "reality-based" horror, but he is also adept at police procedural and mystery. This collection of tales is a disjointed, disconnected, disorganized conglomeration of sheer fun and entertainment and meant for nothing else. Check out the table of contents below:
500 word Short-Short Stories:
500 Words -------------4
Bat Guano -------------7
Zomflies --------------11

Longer Stories:
A Snitch in Time-----13
Pet Project -----------21
Rules of Fog----------31

Longest Stories:
The Unread-----------48
Stump Grinder-------69

Afterword/Advice to Writers:
Tension in Fiction ---95
Advice Column -----98

Also included is an excerpt from CUBA BLUE by Robert W. Walker and Lynn Polkabla, and an excerpt of TRUCK STOP by Jack Kilborn and J.A. Konrath.

Genres: Fiction

123 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 22, 2009

About the author

Aka Geoffrey Caine, Glenn Hale, Evan Kingsbury, Stephen Robertson

Master of suspense and bone-chilling terror, Robert W. Walker, BS and MS in English Education, Northwestern University, has penned 44 novels and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, he is currently juggling not one but three new series ideas, and has completed a film script and a TV treatment. Having grown up in Chicago and having been born in the shadow of the Shiloh battlefield, near Corinth, Mississippi, Walker has two writing traditions to uphold--the Windy City one and the Southern one--all of which makes him uniquely suited to write City for Ransom and its sequels, Shadows in White City and City of the Absent. His Dead On will be published in July 2009. Walker is currently working on a new romantic-suspense-historical-mainstream novel, titled Children of Salem. In 2003 and 2004 Walker saw an unprecedented seven novels released on the "unsuspecting public," as he puts it. Final Edge, Grave Instinct, and Absolute Instinct were published in 2004. City of the Absent debuted in 2008 from Avon. Walker lives in Charleston, West Virginia.