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Not even the blaze of fall colors could lend this place a shred of grace. The reds and oranges melted together into a pattern like the skin of a burn victim. The house itself was shuttered against the coming storm. The walls had once been whitewashed, but the paint had peeled to reveal leprous gray wood beneath. A broad gallery porch surrounded the house, and a row of empty rocking chairs creaked in the stiff westerly breeze that came whipping off the overgrown cornfields. Those fields were withered and brown, the stalks sagging under the weight of unpicked ears.
Dead of Night
Jonathan Maberry
Christopher Daley. Murder & Mayhem in Boston: Historic Crimes in the Hub. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing Inc.,
Sons of Cain
Peter Vronsky
He had no idea how long the process would take, but he knew better than to peer beneath the sheet to see if the bread of life was rising.
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