Tales From Baltimare

These tales are collected from the archives of The Baltimare Riverside Library. These stories have, for one reason or another, never been released outside of Baltimare -which is why it is such a pleasure that I, and the rest of Canterlot Squire Publishing Company, may publish them now. I must say, these stories quite match the town where they were conceived. Baltimare does seem to be the main hub of horror in this nation, would not you say? There is, most obviously, the interesting ways by which they use to bury their loved ones -in both the past and present, the factories that still cook our food, the original main import of the city, etcetera. But -from what I have learned -through my own friends in the city- I have found the thing those who write for Baltimare seem to have a fear of is not death but life -both their own and of those they do not yet understand. Not to say these stories are, by any means, a piece of pony supremacy; far from it, not only are the authors from Baltimare more diverse than most we have seen in much of our current literature but some of them, Red Hoof specifically, target the current order of our dealings with respect to others. It is quite incredible actually, these writings are all so diverse despite the date on all of the stories are from the same year -Baltimare must have received quite a spirited generation. But I believe I should apologize. I have been quite a bit more long winded then I had hoped to be and have only scratched the surface of my reason for this introduction, which is that these writers did not want me to publish these stories -they say it was for the protection of something but I am sure it was simply from the fear of publishing, which drives quite a few of those writers, who I have known, absolutely batty. But it could have been that they believed the stories too frightful for readers -which I quite understand, though I have not yet had the pleasure of reading them. But no further adieus, here for your pleasure is the writing, that has never been released.