Lady Grim 2021: A Halloween Anthology by Nance Sparks

Author:Nance Sparks [Sparks, Nance]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B09GKJ3N4B
Published: 2021-09-15T22:00:00+00:00

ADDITIONAL WORKS BY NANCE SPARKS

COWGIRL

AN ALASKAN WEDDING

AGNES DUBOIS

LL SHELTON

October 31, 1829

Razor-sharp lightning sliced through the sky, and dark clouds swirled in anger. Storms were common during the late harvest season, but tonight was far from common. Pitch blackness draped the land, and evil dangled in the air with a heaviness. This All Hallows’ Eve would soon become an urban legend for the young, for, on this night, October 31, 1829, Agnes Dubois’s reign of terror would cease.

The town’s spinster, Agnes Dubois, a woman of small stature, barely five feet, husky hips, and full thighs that barely supported her, was a fixture of gossip around town. But her size shouldn’t fool one, as Agnes was nothing less than a monster. Inside and out. A tight bun of hair sat on the top of her head, revealing a hideous scar from the tip of her eye to the point of a squared chin—a road map of pain and suffering displayed for the world’s view. For decades, rumors spread around town like wildfires. After finding Agnes pining over a girl in the next town, her mother sliced the young girl’s face with her favorite butcher knife. What logical reason would a mother have for disfiguring her only child? A question only answered by the mentally insane. No one could love a person with such a grim face, not a man or woman. Her mother was right. Agnes remained alone, never to be loved.

When Agnes’s mother died suddenly from a fall down the stairs on Agnes’s eighteenth birthday, her mother’s estate willed the Victorian house they lived in to her. Her father, a stranger to her, returned to France before Agnes could remember him. He was as dead to her as her mother. Except her mother lay six feet under the ground with a broken neck, which pleased Agnes, and her father was nothing more than a mere ghost. Alone and in need of income, she opened the house to travelers. Strangers passing through town searching for a hot meal and a warm bed would stay for a small price—their life.

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