The Haunting of Blackburn Manor
Page 28
For a moment Diana thought the woman was an acquaintance from the village, come to gossip about something trivial in the hopes of being invited to dinner; but then she saw the black skirt embroidered with large, gay flowers, a shawl in every color of the rainbow, and heard the tinkling of silver bangles.
“Bonnie day, aye?” The woman waved her hand in greeting, and Diana saw that she was very old and stooped, encumbered by a filthy bag on one of her shoulders. A mild wind would spirit her away.
“Aye.” Diana wondered if she could simply scuff out her cigarette and get back inside, but she was loath to waste the smoke.
“Your house is it?”
“Aye.”
“Smells dandy. Can you spare an old woman a tattie?”
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The Abandoned House
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On Halloween night, Scott just wants to go trick-or-treating but his older brother has other plans. He is having a party in an abandoned house on the wrong side of town, and he insists Scott remains outside.
As the drinks flow so do the stories, until one of them starts to sound too familiar… and a night of fun turns into a night of terror.
Note: this short story is a short spin-off of The Haunting of Blackburn Manor featuring characters of the novel some twenty years earlier.
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