Your body ... the food you eat ... the environment around you ... whether it be insidious organisms or deleterious chemicals, there are things among us that can quietly turn our serene life into horrors of despair. Within your hands is an anthology of nightmarish and inconceivable horrors in which foreign entities bring the world around them to a halt. Mutations, death, and famine! The destructive apocalypse! People decomposing before the eyes of their neighbors while others turn into a host for parasitic beings!

Welcome to the latest edition of The Haunted Traveler, a roaming anthology dedicated to bringing you some of the most shocking and twisted tales this world has to offer. This issue will surely mesmerize you with its dark and haunting fiction pieces, leaving your nightmares vivid and your dreams insane. This edition features several new and old faces to the zine. Tag along, you won't want to leave after getting all tangled up in our twisted tales.

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