Tone Tales: Guitar Myths, Fables & Legends

Tone Tales: Guitar Myths, Fables & Legends

By Erik Ulven

Enter a world where guitars whisper secrets, pedals possess dark powers, and riffs can summon gods-or demons.

Tone Tales is a one-of-a-kind collection of short stories for guitar lovers, music myth hunters, and anyone who believes in the mystery behind the music. Blending inspiration from Greek and Norse mythology, urban legends, and rock 'n' roll folklore, author and guitar designer Erik Ulven crafts thirty-three original fables set in a universe where sound is sacred and every note holds power.

Inside these pages, you'll find:

• A pedal that learns your soul and plays it back to you
• A teenager consumed by the tone of a cursed distortion box
• A forgotten guitarist who trains in secret for decades to reclaim his name
• A sacred mountaintop where riffs must be played to keep the world in balance
• Capos that won't let go, picks that live forever, guitars that remember what you forgot

Some stories are funny. Others are haunting. A few are eerily close to real life. But they all point to the same idea: guitars are more than just instruments.

Whether you're a longtime player, a gearhead, or just someone who grew up believing that rock stars were born under full moons and struck by lightning, Tone Tales was written for you.

What readers are saying:

"Like Black Mirror for guitarists."

"It's like if Goosebumps, This Is Spinal Tap, and The Twilight Zone had a jam session."

"These stories feel like urban legends brewed backstage."

If you've ever been haunted by a tone you couldn't recreate...

If your gear has a name and a personality...

If you believe the guitar gods are watching watching over you...

Then this book belongs in your hands.