title: The Book Of Dark Magic
author:  C R Sztaba 
description: C.R. Sztaba is the pen name of fifty-one year old Caroline Mabey. Caroline is an experienced writer/illustrator. She started off in children's books but like another great writer, Roald Dahl, she found she had the ability to scare and frighten people with her stories. Horror is her true love; she loves horror movies and longs to have a film script made from her work. Caroline first had her work published in 1986 by Bertie Books - Bluebell Publishing, under the name Carol Burt. 180,000 books were sold and the Co-Op food chain featured them in their stores in Northern England. Her inspiration for the books was her,then two year old, son Grant; something she takes great fun in reminding him to this day, even though he is in his thirties. Since her series of Bertie books she has spent the last twenty-one years concentrating on her career as an executive PA. However, she now feels it's the time to start showing her work again. Her artistic medium is mainly pencil/pastels and ink. Caroline recently had a children's book published called the Adventures of Rufus and Friends which she also illustrated. She hasn't been at Kensington Gore Publishing long but already she feels at home "It's a dream come true to sign for a publisher who is willing to help me develop my writing to the next level, also I get such a positive vibe from them and that inspires me to have more confidence in my writing." Her husband Steve, is now her manager and together they have set up Rufus Design Works Ltd. Here is a full list of her many children books on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1HPPjIh But it is her horror, love to scare and to write a story with a twist in the tale, that is her true calling. Her dream is to give nightmares and not many do it as well as she. She loves to see where her imagination takes her and how she can control her characters and think of more and more gruesome ways to kill or scare them. C.R. Sztaba is the new name in horror, a beautiful face, a lovely person but a warped, dark twisted mind.
zlib_text: Chapter 1
  When Saba Watanabe was four years old, she woke screaming from a
  nightmare. In it black smoke pursued her, thick inky tendrils that threatened
  to devour her at every step. She ran and ran, her small legs pumping, her
  straight bangs flopping into her eyes and blinding her.
  She was in a cavern, a huge place cut of solid rock that glittered and glowed
  with gems and veins of pure gold. A beautiful place but for the nightmare that
  pursued her.
  She dashed down a corridor pocked with round niches that seemed to contain
  interesting things like fat old books and scrolls of paper. She didn’t have time
  to stop and examine this wonder, because the black curls of smoke would
  catch her at any moment. She knew it would wrap tendrils around her ankles
  and pull her down, and then the smoke would flow over her and smother her.
  Panting, she raced around another corner, somehow knowing that a way out
  was near but unable to find it. She ran and ran, and suddenly the corridor
  ended in a blank wall