In Grandma's Room: (Creepy Little Nightmares - Book #2) (All-Age Horror) by Justin Boote

Author:Justin Boote [Boote, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wicked House Publishing
Published: 2022-12-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter

14

Detective Riddley listened incredulously as the dispatcher told him to return to Bradwell Cemetery. There had been another desecration in the early hours and Reverend Nichols was extremely distraught. The dispatcher also said he may have some valuable information this time, possibly a witness even. No one had touched the desecrated coffin yet, and forensics would be there shortly, so he was to go have a look at the damage and wait.

He'd only been awake a couple of hours and this was not how he had envisaged his day playing out. Since the previous desecration, he had no leads whatsoever. No kids had been seen running from the scene. No satanic cult had been hiding in the shadows, claiming to have done it. And forensics had found no fingerprints on the deceased’s body. It might as well have been a ghoul that did it, risen from its grave for a late-night snack and then returned to its underground dwelling place. Tom had hoped it would blow over. Just kids, probably drunk, who thought it might be funny to scare the local priest. But now, if there was another, the chances of that were unlikely given the local media attention right now.

Could this be the beginnings of a serial graverobber? And what if it got worse and developed from stealing a dead person’s organs to…doing worse things to the bodies? There were several necrophiles currently residing at Northgate Hospital for the Criminally Insane, so it wasn’t as if it was the stuff only of horror novels and films. Tom really did not want to deal with necrophiles at this stage of his life and career, so he quickly headed over to visit Reverend Nichols, praying he had a witness or something.

He arrived at the cemetery and, as before, found the place to be deserted. At least of any living folks. He knocked on the church’s doors, a resounding boom that caused pigeons to scatter and the odd squirrel to scurry off to safety. It was like knocking on the doors to Hell, so loud was it in the silence around him. Tom waited for a while, was about to knock again when he heard the clicking of shoes on tiles. The door swung open and Reverend Nichols stood there, looking as if he’d aged twenty years since the last time Tom saw him.

“Reverend, I came as soon as I could. I was told there’s been another.”

“Correct, Detective. This is most terrible. Shocking. What is wrong with people these days?”

“I have no idea, Reverend. Seems to be getting worse than better. I was told you have some information this time. Perhaps you could explain while you show me the desecrated grave.”

“Of course. Follow me.”

The vicar led Tom to the back of the cemetery near where the previous grave had been dug up. There was no sign any more of that desecration—the hole filled in and the grass skilfully put back to how it was before.

“So, as I told you before, I came to do my rounds this morning at around eight when I thought I saw movement from a distance.

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