Indie author Richard L. Elsliger takes special delight in writing automotive related horror fiction, ghost stories, the paranormal and weird tales. No A.I. stories here, only stories written from the heart and mind of a real human being deriving inspiration from the strange. Richard Elsliger grew up in Canada and makes Chicagoland his home.
There is an actual road in the US known as the Tail of the Dragon found on Highway 129 between North Carolina and Tennessee. The road is a favorite for motorcyclists and sports car enthusiasts because of its 318 dramatic twists and turns drawn out over a short eleven mile stretch. To call it a winding road is a gross understatement. There exists a terrible secret associated with Highway 129 that will challenge everything Colin Baker knows about the natural world as he watches his life unravel in the trap that befalls him.
An elderly man notices a pair of headlights following him one day while out for a cruise in his old Plymouth Barracuda. Behind the headlights someone or something has an insidious plan.
A young man inherits a brass box containing a tan pair of driving gloves and a key that fits a Duesenberg. He is about to go on a journey of self discovery and when he learns the truth, it will already be too late to change his course and avoid his horrible fate
Newly married in Vegas, an Icelandic couple rents a Lamborghini to embark on a road trip along US 50, the loneliest road in America. They soon learn that the loneliest road is not so lonely when they encounter a group of denizens from the underworld intent on their destruction.
A funeral home permanently shuts its doors one Friday afternoon and by Monday there is a used car dealership in its place. Keith Wickers is in need of a better car and decides to visit this dealership to make a bargain. The lot has a rare Hemi Barracuda, a car he cannot resist with a deal he cannot refuse. But the dealer of this car lot deals in more than used cars as Keith will soon find out.