...The Story...

Imagine if you will, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Robert Louis Stevenson sitting around a table drinking and doing what eccentric artists of the day did. And as they partied and bantered like rock stars, they began to formulate a twisted story of coincidence, betrayal, love and personal choice based on Poe's "The Tale-Tale Heart", Hawthorne's "Dr. Heideggers Experiment", and Stevenson's "Markheim".

A hellish journey into the darkest place in your soul where every choice and decision you make is fraught with life and death ramifications. How far would one go to achieve happiness? Is life worth living at the expense of another? How blind can ambition be? Can humanity be saved by sacrificing humanity altogether? Can we save ourselves from ourselves? Or is there no hope left in spiritual dignity?

A GOTHIC TALE is a haunting story that examines emotional greed and personal choice, while challenging one's own sense of good judgment, morality, love, and human ethics. Three twisted and tortured souls forever linked by their ties to an unnamed Stranger, at the mercy of one another and the compromises they made to prove their love, remembered by a haunted and dedicated host who narrates their tale from just outside the abandoned building where they lived for many years.

To read the original classic stories which inspired A GOTHIC TALE, please follow the links below:

The Tell-Tale Heart
www.online-literature.com/poe/44

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/130

Markheim
www.online-literature.com/stevenson/2058