Creatures of the hollow clocks
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Last published Sat, Mar 1, 2025
When a young woman by the name of Zya and her kid brother Jae move across the country to a small nowhere town in Texas .
There she comes into possession of a house with stranger oddities and a chilling history .
The house itself is peculiar but the strangest things amongst the rest are five matching grandfather clocks stationed throughout the house, all of which have been gutted of their chimes.
Alas, that isn't why the clocks are strange, every night when the clocks simultaneously reach midnight they chime as if they still had their insides as they once did years earlier.
Come with Zya and her brother Jae on this haunting tale of ghastly spirits, horrifying undead, and spine-chilling creatures.
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