Don't Look Back, Agnes & In This House
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1) Don't Look Back, Agnes. Novella.
Agnes Michaels is coming home. Home to her childhood town of Fairfield and the house her father lovingly built for her mother. A house surrounded by the woods where Agnes' two childhood friends and her boyfriend, Tyler, were all murdered twenty summers ago when she was just seventeen. She was the only one who escaped, but not without emotional and physical scars. Agnes knows that the woods and the evil entity that lives in it have been waiting for her all these years but she has no choice but to return to Fairfield and her mother's house when her mother falls very ill and needs her care. Agnes can no longer avoid her destiny. Because the killings have begun again and she's the only one who can stop them. And with the help of a new friend and Tyler's ghost, she'll defeat the evil and save another child's life.
2) In This House. Ghostly short story.
Bernard and Althea have lived their whole lives in the neighborhood, in the same house and have grown old there. But Deer Run's lead smelter plant has been buying out the houses around them because of lead contamination fears and now the lots are empty weeds and only their house remains. Their neighbors are gone. They're alone. Althea's been sick and Bernard cares for her even as he remembers how lovely she once was, all the friends they once had and all the good times they enjoyed when they were young. He loves her and he'll never leave her. They'll never leave their home. But they can't stop time and they're only waiting for their lonely daughter, Jenny, to make one last visit so they can say goodbye to her and introduce her to the man they know she's meant to be with…then they can leave this earth happy.
Kathryn Meyer Griffith
About Kathryn Meyer Griffith...Since childhood I’ve been an artist and worked as a graphic designer in the corporate world and for newspapers for twenty-three years before I quit to write full time. But I’d already begun writing novels at 21, almost fifty years ago now, and have had thirty-one (romantic horror, horror novels, romantic SF horror, romantic suspense, romantic time travel, historical romance, thrillers, non-fiction short story collection, and murder mysteries) previous novels and thirteen short stories published from various traditional publishers since 1984. But, I’ve gone into self-publishing in a big way since 2012; and upon getting all my previous books’ full rights back for the first time have self-published all of them. My five Dinosaur Lake novels and Spookie Town Murder Mysteries (Scraps of Paper, All Things Slip Away, Ghosts Beneath Us, Witches Among Us, What Lies Beneath the Graves, All Those Who Came Before, When the Fireflies Returned) are my best-sellers.I’ve been married to Russell for over forty-three years; have a son, two grandchildren and a great-granddaughter and I live in a small quaint town in Illinois. We have a quirky cat, Sasha, and the three of us live happily in an old house in the heart of town. Though I’ve been an artist, and a folk/classic rock singer in my youth with my late brother Jim, writing has always been my greatest passion, my butterfly stage, and I’ll probably write stories until the day I die...or until my memory goes.2012 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS *Finalist* for her horror novel The Last Vampire ~ 2014 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS * Finalist * for her thriller novel Dinosaur Lake.*All Kathryn Meyer Griffith’s 31 novels and 13 short storiesare available everywhere in eBooks, paperbacks and audio books.Novels and short stories from Kathryn Meyer Griffith:Evil Stalks the Night, The Heart of the Rose, Blood Forged, Vampire Blood, The Last Vampire (2012 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS*Finalist* in their Horror category), Witches, Witches II: Apocalypse, Witches plus Witches II: Apocalypse, The Nameless One erotic horror short story, The Calling, Scraps of Paper (The First Spookie Town Murder Mystery), All Things Slip Away (The Second Spookie Town Murder Mystery), Ghosts Beneath Us (The Third Spookie Town Murder Mystery), Witches Among Us (The Fourth Spookie Town Murder Mystery), What Lies Beneath the Graves (The Fifth Spookie Town Murder Mystery), All Those Who Came Before (The Sixth Spookie Town Murder Mystery), When the Fireflies Returned (The Seventh Spookie Town Murder Mystery), Egyptian Heart, Winter’s Journey, The Ice Bridge, Don’t Look Back, Agnes, A Time of Demons and Angels, The Woman in Crimson, Human No Longer, Six Spooky Short Stories Collection, Haunted Tales, Forever and Always Romantic Novella, Night Carnival Short Story, Dinosaur Lake (2014 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS*Finalist* in their Thriller/Adventure category), Dinosaur Lake II: Dinosaurs Arising, Dinosaur Lake III: Infestation and Dinosaur Lake IV: Dinosaur Wars, Dinosaur Lake V: Survivors, Dinosaur Lake VI: The Alien Connection, Memories of My Childhood and Christmas Magic 1959.Her Websites:Twitter: https://twitter.com/KathrynG64My Blog: https://kathrynmeyergriffith.wordpress.com/My Facebook author page: https://www.facebook.com/KathrynMeyerGriffith67/Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/kathryn.meyergriffith.7http://www.authorsden.com/kathrynmeyergriffithhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/889499.Kathryn_Meyer_Griffithhttp://en.gravatar.com/kathrynmeyergriffithhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-meyer-griffith-99a83216/https://www.pinterest.com/kathryn5139/You Tube REVIEW of Dinosaur Lake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDtsOHnIiXQ&pbjreload=101
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Don't Look Back, Agnes & In This House - Kathryn Meyer Griffith
For Mom and Dad...
I love and miss you both...always.
You were my greatest fans.
It’s never been the same without you.
Other books by Kathryn Meyer Griffith:
Evil Stalks the Night
The Heart of the Rose
Love Is Stronger Than Evil
Vampire Blood (prequel to Human No Longer)
Human No Longer (sequel to Vampire Blood)
The Last Vampire (2012 Epic EBook Awards Finalist)
Witches
Witches II: Apocalypse
Witches plus bonus Witches II: Apocalypse
The Calling
Scraps of Paper-First Spookie Town Murder Mystery
All Things Slip Away-Second Spookie Town Murder Mystery
Ghosts Beneath Us-Third Spookie Town Murder Mystery
Witches Among Us-Fourth Spookie Town Murder Mystery
What Lies Beneath the Graves-Fifth Spookie Town Murder Mystery
All Those Who Came Before-Sixth Spookie Town Murder Mystery
When the Fireflies Returned-Seventh Spookie Town Murder Mystery
Echoes of Other Times-Eighth Spookie Town Murder Mystery
Waiting Beyond The Veil -Ninth Spookie Town Murder Mystery
Winter’s Journey
The Ice Bridge
Egyptian Heart
Don’t Look Back, Agnes
A Time of Demons and Angels
The Woman in Crimson
Spooky Short Stories
Haunted Tales
Night Carnival
Forever and Always Novella
The Nameless One erotic horror short story
Dinosaur Lake (2014 Epic EBook Awards Finalist)
Dinosaur Lake II: Dinosaurs Arising
Dinosaur Lake III: Infestation
Dinosaur Lake IV: Dinosaur Wars
Dinosaur Lake V: Survivors
Dinosaur Lake VI: The Alien Connection
Dinosaur Lake VII: The Aliens Return
Dinosaur Lake VIII: for Love of Oscar...coming soon
Memories of My Childhood
Christmas Magic 1959 non-fiction short story
*All Kathryn Meyer Griffith’s books can be found everywhere in eBooks,
paperbacks, and audio books.
Don’t Look Back, Agnes
She dashed from her car to the door and kept her eyes off the woods behind the house, a wall of blackness that made her stomach queasy. If she didn’t look, she wouldn’t be frozen with the old terror. If she didn’t look, it wouldn’t work its evil on her, or so she told herself. But the night trees whispered and taunted her anyway. You frightened child...you coward. You’re still trying to run away, huh? But you can’t. Not now. Not any longer.
The house smelled musty as Agnes entered by the side entrance. It’d been empty and closed up for weeks since her mother had gone by ambulance to the nursing home—and the place was a mess. There were newspapers and magazines scattered over the tables and floors. Dust was an inch thick. It was a shame, because the two-story house was truly a lovely home, filled with the woodworking touches her father had lovingly built in. He’d been a master carpenter and it showed in the hand-carved banisters and trim, doorframes and furniture he’d made himself. The stained glass in some of the windows exquisitely rain-bowed the sunlight onto the floors at certain times of the day.
The first thing she did was to turn off the air-conditioning, clean out the cat box and open some windows. Someone had put the AC on seventy-eight, a good thing. The cat wouldn’t die of a heat stroke yet it’d still conserve energy because her mother lived on a tight budget.
It was late August at the end of a scorching summer, but tonight a storm was coming and though the earth shimmered hot, the swirling air was cooled. The breeze feathered her warm skin.
It looked as if someone, probably one of the neighbors, had been coming in periodically to take care of Patches, her mother’s old calico cat. The windows had been locked and the house was dim. A small-screened television murmured softly on the kitchen counter, company for Patches, and Agnes switched it off and snapped on the lights.
Why the cat needed the noise of a television was beyond her. The creature was half-deaf and almost as blind.
It felt strange being back in the small town of Fairfield where she’d grown up and even stranger being in her childhood home after so many years. For two decades Agnes had refused to return; as much as she’d always loved the house and the town, she coaxed her mother into traveling to visit her instead whenever she’d wanted to see her. Until now.
Her mother, who’d had her, Agnes, her third child, late in life, was sick and could no longer travel. Since Agnes’s older brothers lived much farther away than she did and claimed to have too many pressing responsibilities at the moment, Agnes had to return to her childhood home. There’d been no way out of it.
Sighing, she closed the door behind her and locked it. Nothing less than a tragedy and a crisis could have brought her back here. Her husband, Gregory, had passed away six months before, she had no children, and her mother was slipping into a twilight world where no one else could follow. A few weeks ago her mother had fallen in her bedroom; unable to get up, she’d been too confused to make a telephone call for help or to remember where she’d left her Life-Alert necklace. She spent two days on the floor before a friend had found her. Learning about the incident when the hospital had called her late one night had made Agnes feel horrible, as if she didn’t have enough guilt anyway over being so far away at this frail time of her mother’s life.
SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN there for her. Her mother had continually resisted selling the house, though. She refused to give up the twenty acres of wooded land and her huge garden in the back yard or to leave the home where she’d raised her family and had known love as well as heartache. Now she’d have to sell. There was no way her mother could keep the place and Agnes would not consent to live in it, to live in Fairfield, unless it was temporary. The house stood too close to the woods.
So after Agnes quit her job working in the ad department at the newspaper, she put her own home on the market, leaving it in the hands of a local realtor, and had returned to tend to her mother, if she could. She’d move in and prepare the house to sell and then, when her mother was feeling better, they’d both move into a smaller place in another town, far away; she’d get another job. Simple.
She should have known that being forced to return to a place she feared and dealing with her mother’s illness would be far from simple. Well, Agnes’s life had never been easy so why should it be any different now? She’d get through it somehow, she always did.
Her mother had been taken to Restful Oaks, a convalescent home, and her health looked worse than when she’d went in, or so the home’s social worker had informed Agnes by phone a few days ago. Now she wasn’t sure if her mother would ever come home, but she’d know more once she visited her, first thing tomorrow morning.
But tonight, after being on the road all day, towing a U-Haul behind her car, she craved only rest. Everything would be clearer, and safer, in the sunlight of a new day.
Patches,
she called out in a cajoling voice. Come here kitty, kitty. Where are you?
Going from one room to another, she searched for the cat—peeking under the sofa, beds and behind the dressers and in the closets. No feline. Patches!
She was just about to give up when a ball of scratching, spitting fur hit her on the side of her head and slid down her body, claws digging in the whole way. Agnes yelped, pried the cat off her and gently sent it across the room on its furry butt.
Darn, cuckoo cat,
she grumbled, assessing the damage to her clothes and her skin. She was bleeding in three places from long scratches. "Patches,