Letters from the Dark Side

By Cora Buhlert

Who would you ask for advice if your new boyfriend suddenly started howling at the full moon? Where does a teenaged vampire turn, when his hunger starts interfering with his love life? How can a reanimated corpse find friends? Where would you complain if you were the victim of a zombie attack in the city park? How does a ghost find out who murdered her? Where do you go if you're a demon sick of sending souls to hell?

 

Letters from the Dark Side is a collection of short epistolary tales in the style of a True Confessions magazine of 4000 words or approx. 15 print pages altogether.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pegasus Pulp Publishing
• Release date: Oct 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9781498991018

Cora Buhlert

Cora Buhlert was born and bred in North Germany, where she still lives today – after time spent in London, Singapore, Rotterdam and Mississippi. Cora holds an MA degree in English from the University of Bremen and is currently working towards her PhD. Cora has been writing, since she was a teenager, and has published stories, articles and poetry in various international magazines. When she is not writing, she works as a translator and teacher.

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A note from the editor

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As avid readers of our sister magazine True Confessions — Real Stories of Real Heartbreak by Real People you will be familiar with the format of our journal. Real people, people just like you, write to our magazine to tell us about their most intimate problems. Read their harrowing and heartbreaking letters as well as the responses by our licensed psychologist Dr. Megan Midnight who is always happy to offer hope and advice to troubled souls.

This is the way we have been publishing our magazine for more than fifty years now to great success. However, of late it seems as if the fame of our journal has spread beyond the realm of ordinary human existence. Because we have been receiving letters that hint of problems quite a bit outside of normal earthly experience. Nor were we the only ones to receive such letters. Indeed, various agencies have reported receiving similar letters.

Here at True Confessions, we have made it our mission to help troubles souls. And the souls who wrote us those letters most certainly are troubled. And if a troubled soul — whether human or not, living, dead or undead — cries out for help, we cannot ignore them. Hence, we have decided to print those letters in a very special edition of our magazine.

So lean back in your favourite armchair and prepare to discover that even the non-human, the supernatural and the undead can sometimes have very human problems.

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I love him, but he has changed

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Dear Megan,

my name is Madison, I’m sixteen years old and I have a problem.

You see, there’s this new boy in my class. His name is Logan and he’s really sweet. I like him a whole lot.