Room of Shadows by Ronald Kidd

Author:Ronald Kidd
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Published: 2017-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

I died but didn’t.

When I awoke, all was darkness. I was in the coffin! I couldn’t see. I couldn’t move. But I could hear. Reynolds was speaking. Oh, cursed voice!

He gave instructions. The coffin creaked like a gate, then was ripped from the earth and carried to Kennedy’s house. I heard the front door open, and Reynolds spoke.

He read the letter and said he would take it to the police as proof of a grave-robbing scheme, causing a scandal and ruining Kennedy’s reputation, unless—

Wicked, wicked word—unless! Like a fence. Like a cage. Like a coffin.

—unless Kennedy gave him not one hundred dollars, but the entire roll of bills. Hundreds!

Reynolds never described the trance. Never mentioned the bell.

Kennedy, desperate, demanded proof of Reynolds’s story. Reynolds opened the coffin.

Light from a lantern streamed in. I could not move. I could not open my eyes. I could not cry out: for the love of God, wake me up!

The lid shut. The light went out. Darkness closed in.

Reynolds took the money and fled. Kennedy, horrified, put the coffin in the room and closed it off forever. It became my tomb.

I had tried to escape burial. Instead, I had suffered the most terrifying fate of all.

I was buried alive.

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