The Children's Hour - A Novel of Horror (Vampires, Supernatural Thriller) by Clegg Douglas

Author:Clegg, Douglas [Clegg, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: undead, clegg, horror, supernatural thriller, vampire, paranormal, suspense, paranormal suspense, west virginia, Douglas Clegg, supernatural, thriller
ISBN: 9780979686283
Publisher: Alkemara Press
Published: 2012-01-13T05:00:00+00:00

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Others awoke, and the town’s geometry seemed to expand with the movement of the living.

2.

Homer “Hopfrog” Petersen was up by seven. He’d slept badly, perhaps only three or four hours at the most. He could not remember the nightmares too clearly and was hung over, but this never hindered his performance in other areas. He even managed to get in a workout with his weights before eight a.m. His upper body strength was important to him, for it helped him to be less dependent on the outside world. His son, Tad, was staying over the week in compensation for Thanksgiving weekend, coming up in a few weeks, when Becky would take Tad to her mother’s house in Richmond; there had been no custody battle, because Homer pretty much let Becky handle Tad’s schedule, and because he still trusted Becky to be fair in just about everything.

While he still had his morning privacy, Homer tried to do his leg exercises. He stared at his knees and concentrated. Closed his eyes.

Give me strength, he thought. Give me my legs back. I demand that my legs shall move.

He thought this for several minutes; his head finally ached from the effort.

“It’s never going to happen,” he whispered, mostly to himself.

He went and got ready for his teaching job. He had never finished college, but because of his carpentry work, he had finagled a gig teaching woodshop at the junior high six years before when the carpentry work had dwindled. It was something to do. It paid the bills (barely) and got him out of the house on hungover November days like this one.

He went around to the back, along the paved drive, to his car.

On the way, he saw the footprints in the dirt.

He saw something, caught on the bare branch of one of the azaleas, as if someone had brushed up against it, in a hurry, and had torn part of her dress.

3.

Hopfrog’s son Tad was on the bus to Colony Elementary before eight. He had a lunch box in one hand and two books in the other. He was fairly independent for his age and was used to rising early, making his lunch of peanut butter sandwich, banana, and Twinkies by himself. By eight o’clock, he was in his classroom and his teacher, Mrs. Wilkes, was taking roll. By nine o’clock, he had already given his book report on an old book from his father’s library that he loved called Neverland. “It’s not about Peter Pan or anything like that. It’s about this bad kid named Sumter who has this shack he plays in with his cousin. And then he starts making really bad things happen, until the whole island he’s on becomes this scary place. And it’s really neat, because his teddy bear ends up tearing up his father.”

Mrs. Wilkes said, “My goodness, Tad, what kind of book is that for you to be reading?”

“The kind I like,” Tad said matter-of-factly, and then went and sat back down at his desk.

Mrs.

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