A woman is plagued by nightmares and soon begins to sleepwalk during which time she is chased by an unknown and invisible predator. She also begins to see visions, which start to make sense of her life, but which she can't bring herself to believe. How can she save herself, and the world, when she doesn't believe the danger is real?
When Mary Bostall's mother was hit and killed by a drunk driver, it seemed like an accident. Mary, a grieving child who was the only witness, is given her mother's wedding ring to remember her by.
As she grows older, Mary is plagued by sleepwalking and nightmares in which she is chased by an unknown and invisible predator. No one can tell her why, and no one can offer her any help. And then the visions start, and Mary begins to know things she shouldn't.
As Mary struggles to understand what is happening to her, a dark force is making itself known; a dark force hell bent on causing chaos on earth. Mary, the reluctant herione, is told that she is the only one who can prevent the end of the world.
But how can she stop something she's not even sure she believes in?
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What’s the point? she asked herself desperately as she stumbled through the dark alleyways and unlit back streets that slinked around Greenash like an army of deceitful snakes, just waiting for their prey to get lost or trip or simply die at the climax of the journey. Her breath was catching painfully in her throat, great tugs of air grabbing at her abused larynx, and her lungs were refusing to do her bidding and draw in enough oxygen to keep her head from becoming a touch too light, but she wasn’t going to stop. She couldn’t. Not yet. Not until she was certain that she was not going to die in this cold, deserted, unfeeling place. Not until she was sure that she wouldn’t die like her mother had; painfully and too, too soon.
Grab those side-irons, saddle up and join former Civil War sharpshooter Luther Henry for a ride into pure terror, western-style…think ‘Wild Wild West’ meets ‘The X-Files’.
Happy Halloween. A volume of Horrible Haunts & Twisted Tales taken from the horror books La Belle Rouge has written every October for a decade and a half. If you have read her works in the horror genre, you know the invitation is for you to enjoy thr
