Synopsis "Figures in the Forest and Other Tales (in English)"
Welcome to the forest. In his first collection of weird tales C. L. Phillips presents nine strange stories. Within these pages you will travel to a mysterious ziggurat in the jungles of Peru, a farmhouse on the outskirts of Arkham, Massachusetts, the famed Library at Miskatonic University, an old manor in the swamps of Louisiana, a farmer’s market at the edge of town, and a cemetery in Bluegrass, Michigan where a few friends will confront the ghosts of their pasts.One trail will take you into the heart of Project Geek, which may sound like a high school or college drama, but what you’ll find here is post-apocalyptic madness. A dwindling outpost of military personnel and scientists stand their ground against a zombie-style viral outbreak, hoping to find a cure. They find something else entirely, at great peril to them all.Another path will lead you to Panacea, taking you beyond the end to the beginning. Here, Earth is dying, and the source of salvation is being mass-marketed as the ultimate, feel-good, heal-all drug. It’s up to a chosen few to make a choice – leave Earth to fail or break through the capitalism and religion and find redemption.Deep in the forest you’ll encounter the Compass, the Sextant, and the Spyglass, a true Lovecraftian tale, complete with a quest for Cthulhu, undertaken by disheveled individuals a normal person might call obsessed, or insane.And of course, there are Figures in the Forest. In the title story of this collection, a group of young men exploring the temporary disappearance and subsequent insanity of a previous explorer delve into the depths of a fog-shrouded forest. What they find in the woods is beyond anything they expected.
