Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales

A wealthy ornithologist who collected birds across the globe and won Olympic gold in golf turns his hand to the macabre, and the results are delightfully unsettling. Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales blends the author's firsthand experience of distant lands and strange creatures with an unsettling fascination with the uncanny. The title story conjures ancient Aztec evil lurking in southwestern ruins, while other tales explore vengeful spirits, cursed artifacts, and the dark heart of the natural world itself. Cory writes with the confidence of a man who has seen much and the imagination of someone who has dreamed far more. These aren't merely ghost stories; they are meditations on what lurks at the edges of the known world, in jungles, in ruins, and in the shadows of human ambition. For readers who love Victorian weird fiction but crave something rarer: a collection that feels like a Victorian explorer's private journal of the supernatural.