"Crazy Time: A Strange Struggle Between Darkness and Sacredness" is a literary horror work set in a modern, supernatural fantasy world, creating a surreal and dark atmosphere. While the story offers exciting and frightening moments, its primary goal is to evoke fear on a conceptual level, with thoughts and images that challenge logic and perhaps shouldn't even exist.
This collection of twenty frightening novellas encompasses various styles and intensities, but each aims to leave a unique, dark, and lasting impression. The selection begins with the novella titled "Csend" ("Silence"), narrating the story of a surreal haunted house where a woman visits and gradually loses those closest to her in a silent manner. The final novella is titled "Mandy Schneider barátkozik" ("Mandy Schneider Makes Friends") and depicts the taboo-breaking alliance of three psychopaths who then torture a group of campers and their guides.
The work can be divided into five sections, or "stains," each image affecting the mind in different ways through the narrated atrocities. The stories seek distorted answers to the tragedy, exploring unique connections when people crumble before randomness, political concerns symbolized by images of torn flesh and spilled blood, wonders that exact a price for massacres, and a crime that occurs in a place and among people dedicated to human violation.
"Burning the Middle Ground" is a dark fantasy work set in an American rural environment, transforming readers' concerns about the country's direction into a captivating story revolving around a religious conspiracy and supernatural mental control. Its character-centric approach, akin to Stephen King, and a distinctive style reminiscent of Bentley Little, appeals to both fantasy and horror enthusiasts, as well as average readers seeking an exciting journey. Brian McCullough returns home from school and discovers that his ten-year-old sister, Fran, is responsible for the murder of their parents.
Five years later, journalist Ronald Glassner finds Brian, who lives in the same house in the small town of Kenning, Georgia. In his pursuit of writing a book about the McCullough tragedy, Ronald becomes embroiled in a conflict between the First Church of Kenning, led by the mysterious Reverend Michael Cox, and the New Church, under the leadership of the rebellious Jeanne Harper. Meanwhile, animals in Kenning go out of control, and lifeless bodies appear with removed eyes and tongues.