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    Knock Knock
    Knock Knock
    Knock Knock
    Ebook53 pages40 minutes

    Knock Knock

    By Chantilly White

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    **CONTENT ADVISORY** Violence (I mean, it's horror...), adult language (he really likes that "F" word), sexual references (he's pretty... excited about what he's doing...) Fair warning: This is NOT a Chantilly White romance! Knock Knock is a 9,000-word Halloween horror short story.

    It’s Halloween, and just about everyone’s in costume. Pretending to be someone—or something—they’re not. A princess. A pirate. A monster. But once in a while, the real monster is hiding behind the mask...

    Professor Harvey G. Lockwood is a respected faculty member at a popular Northwest university. He’s tenured. Reliable. Efficient.

    To his colleagues, he’s pleasant and professional. A bit pedantic, but who isn’t?

    His students say he’s... tediously dull. Not the guy you want to chat up in the Student Union.

    But Professor Lockwood has a secret.

    A dark, delicious, deadly little secret.

    And Halloween is the perfect night to let the monster out of the closet...

    Trick-or-treat, bitches

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChantilly White
    Release dateMar 6, 2018
    ISBN9781370883417
    Knock Knock
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    Chantilly White

    Like her readers, romance author Chantilly White lives in the real world, but she also knows the value of escapism. As a shy girl in a new school, Chantilly discovered the priceless ability to escape her surroundings through reading the latest romance novels or by taking pen in hand to write her own stories. Reading and writing have been a joy ever since. Now, Chantilly loves providing the same joy to her readers. Pure Hearts ~ Sinful Pleasures is more than just her tagline. It’s her promise. Whether they’re looking for a sweetly fluffy romantic tale or a spicy-hot romp, a sweeping historical romance or a contemporary love story, Chantilly White’s readers know when they delve into one of her stories, they will be transported to a world where love reigns supreme and everyone gets their happily-ever-after. Guaranteed.

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      Book preview

      Knock Knock - Chantilly White

      KNOCK KNOCK

      Chantilly White

      A SnapDragon Press Short Story

      Published October 2017 by SnapDragon Press

      Copyright © 2017 by Chantilly White; Edited by MLL

      Cover Design Copyright © 2017 by Chantilly White

      Cover Images Copyright © SharpPhotos, © Necozio.com, © Ramil Gibadullin, via fotolia. Used with licensed permission.

      ISBN:

      Digital Edition 1.0/October 2017

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be re-sold, given away, re-licensed, reproduced, distributed, or transmitted, in any form now known or hereafter invented, nor stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the author. SnapDragon Press supports copyright. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws. You are supporting and allowing authors to continue to publish books for every reader.

      To obtain permission to excerpt portions of the text, other than for review purposes, or to report a typo or formatting problem so that it can be corrected, please contact the author at Chantilly@ChantillyWhite.com Discover more from Chantilly at ChantillyWhite.com

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales, is purely coincidental.

      KNOCK KNOCK

      Chantilly White

      Chantilly White needs to be on your auto-buy list; I know she's on mine.

      –Lucy Monroe, USA Today bestselling author

      **CONTENT ADVISORY** Violence, adult language, sexual references. This is NOT a Chantilly White romance. Knock Knock is a 9,000-word Halloween horror short story.

      It’s Halloween, and just about everyone’s in costume. Pretending to be someone—or something—they’re not. A princess. A pirate. A monster. But once in a while, the real monster hides behind the mask…

      Professor Harvey G. Lockwood is a respected faculty member at a popular Northwest university. He’s tenured. Reliable. Efficient.

      To his colleagues, he’s pleasant and professional. A bit pedantic, but who isn’t? His students say he’s… tediously dull. Not the guy you want to chat up in the Student Union.

      But Professor Lockwood has a secret. A dark, delicious, deadly little secret.

      And Halloween is the perfect night to let the monster out of the closet…

      Trick-or-treat, bitches

      DEDICATION

      To my own (grown up) little monsters:

      You wanted a Halloween tale.

      One that was a little scary, but also a little funny.

      You guys are tough taskmasters!

      But I hope I delivered.

      Happy Halloween.

      ’Tis now the very witching time of night,

      When churchyards yawn

      And hell itself breathes out

      Contagion to this world.

      Now could I drink hot blood

      And do such bitter business

      As the bitter day

      Would quake to look on.

      ~ HAMLET ~ Act 3, Scene 2 ~

      William Shakespeare

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Title Page

      Story Summary

      Dedication

      Knock Knock

      Thank You!

      Book List

      Acknowledgements

      About Chantilly

      KNOCK KNOCK

      Chantilly White

      October 31st

      Halloween made it so fucking easy.

      But then, he wasn’t looking for a challenge on the night of his official, stunning debut.

      Challenge would come eventually, once word got out. Women would learn

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