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If you're looking for safe horror, you've come to the wrong place.
From the twisted mind of Mark Allen comes a wicked collection of dark, gut-punch short stories that drag you through hell and leave your nerves scraped rawer than sandblasted flesh. Within these pages, tortured sinners cross paths with lustful demons, insane hermits, sorrowful gamblers, and hungry hearts-each tale a brutal reminder that redemption often comes wrapped in pain.
Poetic yet punishing, Darkest Before You Die reveals the beauty in agony and the terrible truth that sometimes you must suffer hell to find salvation.
Sometimes even the damned are looking for heaven.
If you dare to open this book, be ready to look into the darkness-and see yourself staring back.
Mark Allen
Mark Allen is a former federal attorney from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Department of Homeland Security. He left USCIS in 2021 after forty-one years of federal service, having advised USCIS management on a wide range of federal administrative law areas.
Allen is also a long-time student of the JFK Presidency. To tell Judith Exner's story, he conducted thirty years of independent research in archives and institutions across the country.
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