After The Fall

About the Book

In this third collection of short stories, you will be introduced to characters that find themselves in unique situations. In After the Fall, Boris Pastorni’s army defeated the small village, but find their weapons useless against a rampant sickness. “…the plague will come to our island. The breeze may scoop it up and bring it here, or it may hitch a ride upon the feathers of the birds that ferry back and forth on a daily basis. You will be unable to control the breeze and you cannot kill every bird. No, the plague will visit soon enough. Perhaps even the dead themselves will bring it to you.” Other tales will feature a variety of characters such as the young boy who is convinced that evil is following his family even as they move to a new town and it waits for him in a local farmer’s cornfield. And then there is Cameron, a product of one man’s imagination who becomes all too real, and Logan, an actor who discovers that playing the role of a vampire is not as much of a fantasy as he imagines. There are also ghosts roaming these pages, and other unnatural beings waiting for you. Come, have an adventure and enjoy your visit to the supernatural.

About the Author

John Hartman lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Having written for several magazines immediately following high school, he set his ambitions aside in order to pursue a more steady line of work. After a financial career in the railroad industry, he retired in order to return to his first love, that of writing. His first published book was The Belfry and Other Short Stories, a collection of imaginative short stories. He followed up that book with the horror novel, Fruelic's Lair. Having always enjoyed the challenge of writing short stories, he put together another short story anthology, Angel Dark. During the last few years, he has fashioned the fantasy series of the Fire Child starting with the Return of the Fire Child. The storyline was continued in the books Quest of the Fire Child and Fortress of the Fire Child.