The Midnight Train to Hell: Four Dark Tales

On the surface, Gallia County, Ohio is the quintessential vision of rural America, the type of place where everyone smiles and waves at you as you drive past. But the veil between the living world and the realm of the supernatural is thinnest there, and sometimes the dark things from the world beyond, the creatures that terrorize your worst nightmares, escape into our reality. When the lines between life and death are blurred, true terrors await the humans caught in between. Here are four of those stories. In “A Murder of One,” a member of the animal kingdom searches for an otherworldly friend. A man must reconcile the scars of his past to save his family from the eternal damnation that awaits them in their final destination on “The Midnight Train to Hell.” A teenager discovers the dark secrets of his community when he attends the annual “Hog Roast.” The “Lucky Coin” grants its owner a spectacular gift, but the evil attached to it may outweigh the benefits. The electrifying debut by James C. Howell advances horror into the twenty-first century. With compelling characters and stories that shock and terrify, The Midnight Train to Hell will remain in the psyche of the reader long after the final page has turned.

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