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DescriptionJamessssss, the skeleton called until it possessed the boy, forced him to steal a mysterious book from Saint Michael's Church and threatened to kill his best friends if they were unwilling to perform a séance that opened a tunnel to Hell a few weeks before Halloween. Welcome to the farm town of Laredo, where a fleshless creature, seven teenagers and a violent sociopath nicknamed the Bald Man collide at the crossroads of Highways 24 and 51. SKELETONS tells the heart-wrenching story of innocence lost while introducing a new hell to the horror genre that will leave readers begging to know more about the Carny House, Father O’Mally and the Master.ExcerptJamessssss, the skeleton whispered in his ear with its gravelly voice.No... no... no... he mumbled and tossed his head back and forth as the recurring nightmare of a burning house flashed through his mind. He was back in the dilapidated living room again. The circle of fire opened its mouth and he fell into a maze of tunnels winding through the Earth.Wake up, wake up.Mac… TJ… somebody help us, he mumbled as the tunnels spat him out at the mouth of a cave. He crossed a river of lava and found dwellings carved into the foothills of black mountains. Thousands more of the fleshless creatures living in the makeshift city emerged and howled his name under a sky painted crimson red. He turned to run but there was no sun to light the way out of what the Bible on his nightstand described as Hell.Follow me, it whispered and woke him with its stinking breath.He pulled the covers over his head in terror as it walked across his bedroom and disappeared into the hallway. He cracked his eyes open, sat against the headboard and turned on his lamp. As he itched his short brown hair he discovered strange footprints on the carpet leading out his door. He took a long drink of last night’s tap water, set the glass down and checked his alarm clock.Three-thirty three, James muttered.The nightmare woke him up at the same time every morning but this was the first time one of the skeletons had invaded his room.Come, come, it beckoned from the dark outside his door.He pulled the duvet up to his chin and gazed past the open door. The clickety-clack of bony feet descended the old pine stairs followed by the rattling of a lock. He slipped out of bed and past his sister’s room, careful not to wake her because she would kill him for being a scaredy-cat. He avoided the creaky floorboards, tiptoed on the silent ones and used the railing...About the AuthorAndrew Reeves grew up in the rural town of El Paso, Illinois, where his family owned a farm for over one hundred years. After graduating high school in 1995, he majored in Visual Communications at Northern Illinois University and then worked as a graphic designer in Chicago. In 2003, he moved to the Echo Park area of Los Angeles, became disillusioned with advertising and released his first record as a musician, 1048 West Kensington Road. He relocated to Austin, Texas in 2007 to play live music and released Somewhere in The Middle of Nowhere and Where the Greed Won’t Grow. In 2009, he returned to California and produced the guitar, bass and drums album New York City.While taking a break from music in 2010, he created the “Black” series of paintings in his Glassell Park studio. The concept for SKELETONS was born during meditation and fleshed out with charcoal drawings that appeared in an international art show. Part One: Laredo is the first novel in The Rapture Trilogy, to be followed by Part Two: The Bald Man and Part Three: Revelations. He plans on later living in the Abiquiu area of New Mexico to write The Indian Wars, a post-Civil War western that will reveal the origins of the Master and the Bald Man.

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