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    Bumps in the Night: Creepy Campfire Tales
    Bumps in the Night: Creepy Campfire Tales
    Bumps in the Night: Creepy Campfire Tales
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    Bumps in the Night: Creepy Campfire Tales

    By Mark Leslie

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    If you go into the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise!

    BUMPS IN THE NIGHT collects four short stories perfect for either sharing around a campfire or reading while on a sleepover. It contains two brief tales ideal for after dark storytelling, drawing upon classic motifs captured within campfire tales for generations, as well as two longer stories which inspire similar chills but allow the reader (or listener) to get drawn deeper into the frightening circumstances that unfold.

    ERRATIC CYCLES involves a man stranded on an abandoned highway in Northern Ontario, forcing him to face his childhood fears of the wilderness after dark.

    ALMOST draws upon one of the most beloved classic campfire tale situations with a bizarre new twist.

    In THE PIZZA MAN, four students keep getting pizza deliveries that they never ordered. Is it a strange prank, or is there something more to the mysterious man who keeps showing up at their door?

    THE SHADOW MEN was specifically crafted to be read around a campfire. Pay no attention to those strange noises and bumps in the night taking place while this story unfolds. It's likely only the Shadow Men.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStark Publishing
    Release dateApr 28, 2016
    ISBN9781386942290
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    Mark Leslie

    Mark Leslie is a writer of "Twilight Zone" or "Black Mirror" style speculative fiction. He lives in Southwestern Ontario and is sometimes seen traveling to book events with his life-sized skeleton companion, Barnaby Bones. His books include the "Canadian Werewolf" series, numerous horror story collections, and explorations of haunted locales. When he is not writing, or reading, Mark can be found haunting bookstores, libraries or local craft beer establishments.  

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      Bumps in the Night - Mark Leslie

      DEDICATION

      For J.P. Couvrette (1968 to 2012)

      Thanks for so many good times, laughs, and the blessed memories of working together on those goofy high school skits, the school paper and ghost stories told around campfires when we were teens. I miss you, Couvy – so many of us do. But you should know that you still inspire me.

      INTRODUCTION

      FOR ME, ONE of the best ways to hear a scary story is to listen to one being told around a campfire. There is nothing like the sense of community as a group of people huddle close to what is often the single source of light and safety, sharing eerie tales about those scary things that might exist beyond the safety of the firelight.

      I have collected four tales here that might be ideal for such a setting, partially because they take place out-doors, but partially because a few of them were written specifically with oral storytelling in mind.

      This collection was initially conceived and launched as an eBook to help showcase some of my fiction. Due to the demand of readers who wanted more or my work in print and audiobook, I have worked at expanding into those editions.

      Erratic Cycles and Almost previously appeared in my story collection One Hand Screaming, and The Shadow Men appeared in the anthology Northern Haunts (edited by Tim Deal) In the original eBook version which was released in 2012 The Pizza Man was a previously unpublished story. In 2014 it appeared in a special limited-edition chapbook for Eeriecon 16 and then later, in Night Cries: Nocturnal Screams, Volume 1 which came out in 2017.

      I hope you enjoy these tales. And, if you’re tempted to read one or more of them aloud at a campfire, go for it.

      Mark Leslie

      August 2019

      ERRATIC CYCLES

      CHARLES DEAN WEBSTER, attorney at law, sat very still in his ‘89 Toyota Tercel, frustrated over his predicament. Something — he had no idea what — had happened to his car. First there had been smoking and hissing and then the car had stopped running. That was the extent of his knowledge about what was wrong with his car. He was a lawyer, not a mechanic.

      Dammit Jim, I’m a lawyer, not a mechanic.

      He looked at his watch, taking his eyes off of the forest for only a very short time. It was a quarter past nine. As he lifted his head to look down the barren stretch of Highway 144, he caught the glare of the setting sun in his rearview mirror.

      Damn!

      He slammed a fist against the dash and then sat back once more and stared out the bug splattered windshield at the deserted highway.

      Why me? he asked, and was quick to find an answer.

      Why not you?

      This was going to be your big case, your first major success, your big break. This was going to be the case that not only brought you a handsome sum but spread your name across the country. After winning this one, you were finally going to be someone.

      So why not you? If you continue to believe such stupid glorified dreams, then why not you? Face the facts, schmuck: This is just another case.

      And, being just another case, it had been nothing but a pain in the ass from day one. Getting stranded on a lonely highway somewhere between Sudbury and Timmins was just par for the course.

      He looked at his watch again, but only a minute had passed since he’d last checked it. His eyes quickly returned to

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