His throat was suddenly seized by the coldest fingers, so long that they choked him like a collar. Alec grabbed the man’s wrists. They were as bone; fleshless, but extraordinarily strong. He couldn’t pry himself free. And this futile fight for air relinquished the rules of a lifetime.

Alec opened his eyes.

It was nothing like he had imagined, not in his most haunting of nightmares. The creeper was more terrifying than he could have ever thought possible.

Flames brushed the grandfather clock as it rang in the ninth hour; fated to burn like everything else in Alec’s home – his prison and his tomb.

About the Author

A.M. SHINE writes in the Gothic horror tradition. Born in Galway, Ireland, he received his Master’s Degree in History there before sharpening his quill and pursuing all things literary and macabre. His stories have won the Word Hut and Bookers Corner prizes and he is a member of the Irish Writers Centre. His debut novel, The Watchers, has been critically acclaimed. The Creeper is his second full-length novel.

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