A Collection of short stories
Game of Crones

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Game of Crones 

Tales of Witchcraft and Wickedness

 

Forget happily ever after — the most delicious fairy tales end in darkness.

In this spellbinding collection of Gothic tales, Jay Raven explores the perilous border between superstition and sanity. A half-mad girl languishes in a high-security cell, accused of unleashing an earthquake that destroyed a city.  An impoverished aristocrat gambles everything on a witch’s potion to make a cruel prince love her daughter. A lonely homesteader refuses to grieve, convinced her husband is still alive — a captive in an old crone’s lair.

Each story twists familiar folklore into something far more unsettling: a world where desperate wishes carry deadly prices, and where evil is often simply the name given to hope gone wrong.

Blending psychological tension, moral ambiguity, and Raven’s signature dark wit, Game of Crones offers eight haunting tales for readers who prefer their fairy stories spiked with menace — and their magic laced with regret.