Picture a man in a trench. Any trench. Mud of the Somme or red clay in Ukraine. He’s tired, cold and scared, and he has made his peace with the things that can kill him: the bullet, the shell, the gas, the drone whining overhead. He knows them by sound and by smell. He knows their rules.
What he doesn’t know is that war has a back door, a space between the blood and gore where horror lives. Portals to the weird and uncanny and unknown.
There’s a place soldiers don’t talk about. It isn’t on any map. Men just arrive, through a pair of experimental goggles, in a captured tank that won’t die, aboard a ship bound for somewhere no ship should go. It’s a country where the fog of war turns into something thicker, where ancient things wake up hungry from the smell of blood, and where the enemy across No Man’s Land turns out to be the least of a man’s problems.
You are about to open six case files from that country. They span a century of war, from the trenches of World War I to a war that hasn’t been fought yet. Each one was filed by a soldier who saw too much. Most of those soldiers didn’t come home. The ones who did never talked about it.
Until now.
Read carefully. Keep your rifle close. And whatever you do, don’t stare into the void.
Welcome to the WEIRD WAR FILES