People fear the dark for a reason. Out in the darkness, the demons and horrors of our imagination become all too real. Of those brave enough to leave the light and plunge into the world's dark corners, none come back unchanged. Some don't come back at all. Four Corners Dark offers up four very different tales of places where the darkness lingers, tempting you to step into the unknown. In these tales by storyteller William McNally, a group of Mexican immigrants place their trust in the wrong coyote, or human smuggler, only to find their very souls at risk. A huckster with the ability to escape...

With his life turned upside down, a terminally ill man seeks answers from a family he never knew. Barry Ryan, a successful sculptor, goes on a journey to find his roots and the extraordinary family that somehow evades death and ties him to a terrifying future. Driven to find answers, Barry is joined by his sister and her boyfriend on the road to Auraria, a mysterious ghost town where terrible secrets lie hidden since the days of gold and greed. All is well until they cross the city limits and fall beneath the veil, a place where the bizarre rules the living, and the living are prey trapped in...

They're the town losers: three no-account good ol' boys with a penchant for hard drinking and an aversion to personal hygiene. Dennis is a washed-up high school athlete who dreamed of going pro. Harley's a bad seed, a belligerent drunk always looking for trouble. And Ernie? Lord love him, but he's just not too bright. A weekend hunting trip in the remote woods frees the three from society's judging stares-and offers an opportunity to drink around live ammo. Leave it to Harley to screw things up. With one crazed act of drunken bravado, Harley stumbles into a world few know exist, dragging his...

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