Madness and Greatness Can Share the Same Face

The line between madness and greatness is as delicate as a golden silk thread.

It’s a tricky balancing act to dance upon this fragile line for those seeking greatness. An outsider may perceive the endeavor as wandering a road toward insanity and crumbling dreams. However, in the eyes of the beholder, they don’t see themselves as walking a tightrope between genius and insanity but rather paving a road to success-where no expense is spared.

Madness and Greatness Can Share the Same Face is a collection of thirteen dark fiction tales that spiderweb across space and time to explore the line where, with a step, one can be pitched into the realm of greatness or depths of madness.

Come into a twisted universe that follows two women’s harrowing lives living with a monster in ＂＂The Voiceless＂＂. Take a boat ride with a lonely lobsterman who rediscovers his son only to lose him again in ＂＂Of Sharks and Dreams＂＂. Understand the depths of a father’s love for his daughter during an apocalyptic catastrophe in ＂＂Carrion Eaters＂＂. Watch as a genetic scientist’s obsession with a creature in his dreams mutates into a horrific nightmare in ＂＂The Faunling＂＂. And experience the freedom a young woman finds when faced by a God in ＂＂Where the Elk Roam＂＂.

Watch your step as you dance upon the thin line between madness and greatness.

By day, Amanda is a program manager; by night, she is a wandering wonderer. When she isn’t writing or working, she can be found logging insane miles on one of her many bikes, running the wilds of Pennsylvania, or hiking the Appalachian Mountains.

Amanda wrote of monsters and lore in her debut novel, Till We Become Monsters. Her macabre short stories appear in several anthologies, such as Midnight from Beyond the Stars, CONSUMED: Tales Inspired by the Wendigo, and That Darkened Doorstep.