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Don't Look Back Agnes & In This House
by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Category: Dark Fantasy/Horror
Description: Two short works by Kathryn Meyer Griffith. 1) Don't Look Back Agnes--Agnes Michaels is coming home. Home to her childhood town of Fairfield and the house her father lovingly built for her mother. A house surrounded by the woods where Agnes' two childhood friends and her boyfriend, Tyler, were all murdered twenty summers ago when she was just seventeen. She was the only one who escaped, but not without emotional and physical scars. Agnes knows that the woods and the evil entity that lives in it have been waiting for her all these years but she has no choice but to return to Fairfield and her mother's house when her mother falls very ill and needs her care. Agnes can no longer avoid her destiny. Because the killings have begun again and she's the only one who can stop them. And with the help of a new friend and Tyler's ghost, she'll defeat the evil and save another child's life. 2) In This House: Bernard and Althea have lived their whole lives in the neighborhood, in the same house and have grown old there. But Deer Run's lead smelter plant has been buying out the houses around them because of lead contamination fears and now the lots are empty weeds and only their house remains. Their neighbors are gone. They're alone. Althea's been sick and Bernard cares for her even as he remembers how lovely she once was, all the friends they once had and all the good times they enjoyed when they were young. He loves her and he'll never leave her. They'll never leave their home. But they can't stop time and they're only waiting for their lonely daughter, Jenny, to make one last visit so they can say goodbye to her and introduce her to the man they know she's meant to be with?then they can leave this earth happy. Excerpt: Too late. A huge murky figure lumbered into the clearing and in the moonlight it looked like a man, a big man, in tattered clothes, with an empty face and gleaming red eyes. In its hands it held a wooden bat. But Agnes knew it wasn't just a man, it was a monster; a soulless killer capable of inhuman cruelty. It smiled that evil smile, frozen so long ago in the recesses of her tortured mind, and every inch of her began to scream: Run. Get away. Don't let it get you again!
eBook Publisher: Eternal Press/Damnation Books LLC/Eternal Press, 2012 2012
eBookwise Release Date: January 2012
 
Available eBook Formats: OEBFF Format (IMP) [154 KB]
Words: 27452
Reading time: 78-109 min.
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