In 1915 Ohio, 14-year-old Emmett's night terrors get worse after he finds a dead body in an abandoned well.
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Jeffrey Ford
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"Phil and Dierdre met on the street in that part of town known as The Crumble. They hadn’t seen each other in a long time. Her hair was bleached, her lipstick too red, and her youth hidden behind crow’s feet and wrinkles. Still, he recognized her...
There are worse things than a local gangster’s cronies lurking in New Jersey’s wetlands…
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College friends Henry, Maggie, and Russell decide to play archeologist in the back yard of an old, abandoned house, but things get serious when they find the deformed skeleton of a child.
At night, in the middle of a terrible snowstorm, Amy and Harry meet an alien on their drive home.