I have a deep love of campfire tales and found footage. I love the nature of those types of stories. The immediacy of them. I love the notion of putting someone front and center in horror. It isn’t just first-person narratives; it’s the idea of transporting someone so they feel as if they are part of things.
It was that germ of an idea that ties the stories in “Things We Found” together. The idea of discovering something terrifying and unreal, and having nowhere to run. In this collection, I tried to imagine the protagonists living through their own campfire story or found-footage film, and trying to survive if they can.
These stories are dark, visceral, and at times, mean. They show a world in which we have gone too far into the darkness, and have discovered we are far from alone.
I warn you, these stories have teeth.
I haven’t put out a short story collection in a couple of years, making this a great opportunity to dive into this one.
It’s available now, in Kindle and paperback.
Find it here.
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 