The Headsman by Christina Mîrzoi

Take a glimpse into the world of a headsman, a gloomy village in which each dweller has a secret: an evil witch, a shrewd florist, a naive young man, a foreign merchant, a dreadful husband, a mischievous maid, and a lustful duke. These stories are intertwined, weaving a dark narrative of love, trickery, brutality, and loss. Under the bleak aesthetic, raw human emotions unravel themselves in a gripping story about moral decay. In a world that belongs to the wicked, how far can one walk this path while keeping a clean conscience? The Headsman is a collection of short stories that focus on interconnected characters, sometimes looking at the same event from a different perspective. As a genre, it falls somewhere under dark fiction territory.

Adult • Horror/Southern Gothic • Horror • Short Stories

Content Warning: Death, violence

CJDaley author

This is a short story collection that is interwoven to tell a somewhat singular tale. The gloomy village is filled with people, all carrying their own secrets. The author weaves them so that we get the bigger picture through the eyes of each strange character

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