Mallam Cross by T. M. Wright & T. M. Wright & Steven Savile

Author:T. M. Wright & T. M. Wright & Steven Savile
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Supernatural Fantasy
Publisher: PS Publishing
Published: 2022-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

PART FIVE

The storybook building must have been quite imposing when it had first been built.

Given how long the place had been abandoned he would have expected it to have been in an even worse condition. For comparison, a house in Grayson’s old neighborhood would have been in ruins if it had lain empty for even half as long. The windows would have been smashed, the front door hanging off its hinges, while the kids used it for their drugs and whatever else they got up to away from prying eyes, but this place was pretty much untouched.

“So, what, you think this is some kind of shunned place?” Louisa asked from somewhere behind him.

“Given what we’ve just walked through ... nothing sounds good about that, does it?” Shunned houses were usually the places that were haunted, or at least had the stories of hauntings and ancient evils woven into a legend around them. That was why people kept away. A dead zone was something else entirely. It was almost a haven within the haunted neighborhood. “I mean, what could be so terrible even the ghosts are afraid of coming here?”

“When you put it like that,” she said, and made the sign of the cross.

Ahead of them, Daphne, Harris and Maggie Carlisle slowed as they walked up the stone steps to the house’s grand porch. Zack walked quickly to catch up with them. He was at the steps before they reached the front door.

The old actress made a show of pausing, drawing a deep breath as though summoning the inner strength needed to cross the threshold, and took the final few strides up to the old green door. There was a huge brass ring in the center. She reached for it and rapped three times. No one answered her call. She turned to look directly at Grayson’s camera, making sure he had the right angle for the shot as she pushed the door open.

If there wasn’t, the footage would be cut and discarded, and that was a waste. It almost meant coming back to get the shot again, and it’s never as good second time.

“Are we going to need to break in?” Zack called up to her.

Maggie’s answer was to reach out and take hold of the handle beneath the brass knocker. It turned easily, and the door offered little resistance as it swung open on groaning hinges.

The actress led the way.

Louisa narrated the scene. “Maggie’s just gone inside with her man, Harris. We’ve got no idea what’s waiting for us inside, but you can feel the weirdness in the air. It’s positively electric.”

Which was a lie. It was the only place in the entire town that hadn’t felt fraught with at least a slight charge, but that didn’t make as good television, did it?

She followed the psychic in. Grayson was the last across the threshold. The creak of the old floorboards followed every few footsteps. The light streaming in to the old house over their shoulders trapped the dust motes dancing in the air that had barely moved for years.

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