Description:
In a tavern that never quite sleeps, stories are paid for in blood, teeth, frost, and memory.
The Tales of Early gathers whispered confessions, curses, and half-truths spoken across a scarred oak bar. Each night, travelers arrive carrying something they cannot keep. Each night, the barkeeper listens, wipes the bar clean, and lets the mirror behind him decide what is remembered.
These are not heroic legends.
They are the stories that stain the floorboards.
A blacksmith whose oath froze his hands.
A grave-digger whose nails turned black from digging too deep.
An orchard that fed on marrow instead of rain.
A bell that swallowed children.
A lantern that burned its bearer from the inside out.
Between each tale, the tavern shifts. Keepsakes are nailed into the wood. The mirror shimmers, scratches, breathes, and records. Somewhere beyond the glass, a quiet guild listens, counting stories not for comfort, but for control.
Dark, visceral, and steeped in old-world dread, The Tales of Early blends rustic fantasy and folk horror into a single, living place where no story leaves unchanged.
Pull up a chair.
Pay your price.
Just don't fall asleep.
Brief description:
Christopher Lee Spino is a Colorado author and the architect of the SpinoChasm-a connected universe where flesh, code, memory, faith, and survival collide.
His stories move through the raw edges of existence: broken worlds, living machines, wounded souls, and ordinary people carrying extraordinary weight. The danger is rarely a grand cinematic apocalypse. It is slower and more intimate-a fracture widening beneath daily life while the people caught within it struggle to remain human.
Spino calls his work Sacred Science Fantasy. Technology and spirit are not enemies within his universe, but different languages spoken by the same eternal soul. His books cross genres and generations, with individual stories serving as separate doors into one enormous, interwoven creation.
His growing body of work includes Early Core, Tales of Early, Chris Awakenings, Molly's Desires, Julian's Path, and the wider SpinoChasm collection. Each series can stand alone, yet every path eventually touches another.
Spino does not write to force the reader toward a predetermined answer. He writes to lend the reader another set of eyes-to cross the Chasm beside characters who possess their own weight, will, wounds, and purpose. His stories ask readers to stand within the fracture and witness the end, the beginning, and the strange living thread connecting them both.