Mind on Fire Books

Where Myth Bleeds Into Flesh

Dark Fiction & Poetry by Willy Martinez

Step into the uncanny with Folklore and Flesh—a collection of visceral horror stories and haunting poems that blur the boundaries between myth and the body. From ancient rituals and supernatural transformations to the raw ache of grief and memory, these tales invite you to explore the shadowed places where folklore becomes flesh.

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Inside the Collection

The Whispering Bone Orchard
A grieving mother seeks solace from a shaman in a haunted grove, only to become a living archive for the village’s buried memories.

The Drone’s Metamorphosis
A frontline drone operator awakens to find his mind trapped inside the machine he once controlled—caught between humanity and cold, mechanical detachment.

Echoes of the Apiary
A beekeeper’s loneliness draws him deeper into the hive’s collective mind, blurring the line between man and swarm as his world unravels.

Dark Vintage
A lonely botanist’s night at a rural winery turns into a grotesque feast, where the line between predator and prey is as thin as a wineglass stem.

The Siguanaba
Ancient Central American folklore comes alive as a conquistador’s quest for gold leads him into the underworld—and face-to-face with a shape-shifting legend.

Digital Fangs
A beauty influencer’s viral tooth-whitening serum unlocks something monstrous in her followers—and in herself.

Clay and Memory
A grieving widower turns to an AI therapist and a mysterious “quantum clay” ritual, only to find his memories—and his identity—slipping away.

The Day the Rain Tore Us Apart
In a drought-stricken village, children are chosen for a ritual that promises rain—but the price is a transformation that no one could have foreseen.

Plus over a dozen dark poems and micro-fictions exploring transformation, ritual, and the monstrous beauty of the human condition.