Patient 444 and Other Short Stories

On a Sunday morning in 1910, Gerald Dury rose up and exacted his revenge on the town of Bradley Kansas. His revenge was complete, devastating, and intractable. Patient 444 is a collection of stories by J. M. Lamoreux, written in a powerfully mystical way, lifting his work out of the mainstream, and placing in in a category of magic reality, unique in the horror genre.Patient 444 includes stories about an unseen pet that guards a shed and finds its life in the twisted heart of an old man, a haunted gym that is guarded by a lonesome ghost that embodies a world of sadness and, when provoked, animal rage, a ghostly encounter in Donner Memorial Park by a drug dealer attacked by an invisible pack of wild animals, the revenge of a woman murdered in a mall bathroom, the resurrection of a murdered wife in a Water Masters House in the Sierras, and more . . . much more.

About the Author

My name is J.M.Lamoreux. I was born in Long Beach California and lived there most of my early life. I grew up around Disneyland, Knotts Berry Farm, and Huntington Beach. I was a typical "odd ball" in high school, and read a lot of "intense literature," ("intense" to my friends) mostly in the vein of authors like Dylan Thomas, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and T.S. Elliott. Today I live in the Reno area not far from Lake Tahoe and Carson City. I'm retired, and producing a lot of work I'm happy to say. My preference for writing style and subject matter are stories that are powerfully compelling and disturbing too.

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