“Lock them doors! Secure them latches, and nail them windows shut! That be right, folks. Hurry on home, hurry on home before he gets you.”

From rock and stone, it hung. A peculiar mirror displaying glimpses of The Outside World. Deceitful and cunning, it played the most...

I nodded, hoping he’d loosen the grip, but truth is I was a coward, lying to a dying man, and strength, I had none.