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Aug 2024
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Transylvania Trek: Horror Story in the W...

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In 2003, a former special forces soldier journeys into the wilds of Romania. But here, in this land of myth and legend - of Bram Stoker’s Dracula - Ken Jones finds himself in a horror story of his own. After nature deals him a hammer blow, he’s left alone in the wilderness, battered and broken. Ken will have to summon every ounce of his resilience to escape…


A Noiser production, written by Paul Olding.


For more on this story read Ken’s book Darkness Descending.


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