When the Dark Finds You
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Last published Thu, Apr 25, 2019
No one knows what it is, its motives, why it is here. It hides in the shadows, it wears layers of skin, but once you've seen it, you're never seen again... alive.
Eddie Chambers is a builder from Magnolia Springs in 1993 Alabama. He's working on the renovations for an old Victorian school in hopes to attract more people to visit Magnolia Springs. This town has always had a reputation for being a strange place but that all ended in the 1970s when the serial killings stopped, all of the killings had the same pattern, but all serial killers are like that. But it's slightly different every time... When Eddie discovers Nellie the school caretaker he is dragged into a horror he could never imagine.
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