All Things Truly Wicked (Second Edition)

Bad things happen to good people, and those good people can become bad things. No one is wholly a sinner or a saint. Even those we see as decent, selfless, or incorruptible are not immune to the dark urges whispering within. The temptation to succumb to that inner devil can be so powerful that even so-called good people can break bad, creating a mysterious gray area blurring the line between the gracious and the wicked.

The characters in these stories are neither angelic nor demonic, yet all face relentless threats. Haunted by their failures, they are caught in a world where religion abandons them, life eludes them, and science confounds them. Soon, the supernatural finds these individuals, and a doorway is opened. Each teeters on an otherworldly tightrope between light and shadow before plunging into a bottomless pit that changes them forever. All things truly wicked start from innocence, and in these pages, all become...the truly wicked.

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

—Sophocles

Beware that when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster.

—Friedrich W. Nietzsche

It is better to be the right hand of the devil than to be in his path of destruction.

—Morgan Bridges, Now You're Mine

-- Anthony V. Pugliese