The Thing in the Basement
JustinMacCormack
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  • Parts 15
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  • Reads 45
  • Votes 16
  • Parts 15
  • Time 3h 26m
JustinMacCormack
Ongoing, First published Apr 07, 2016
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It has no fear.
It has no weakness.
It lives to kill.
Whatever you do... don't go downstairs!

Haunted by the memory of his deceased wife, Neil Harvey hoped that buying a new house halfway across the country would free him and his daughter from the shadow of grief that followed them. 

It was a lovely house. A bit run down, creaky around the edges, but Neil could fix that up.

But why, since they moved in, does Amber keep having nightmares about a young boy with dark eyes and bleeding hands? 

And why was there a lock on the basement door?
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