The Book House

SYNOPSIS

The country town holds a secret, not all the folks believe. The two dead bodies in the house, the bloodied axe impaled in the wall. The police are stumped, no suspects, no evidence. Could the townsfolk be right?

Samuel, their loving son, occupies the house now. He takes it upon himself to find his parents killer. But things don't add up. . .and that BOOK, Why does it appear then it…and the messages? Samuel knows something is happening, the messages in his diary linking him to the atrocities that follow.

But he knows he's innocent yet it's his handwriting. His handwriting describing what he couldn't possibly have done. Is he going crazy? That BOOK, he must destroy that BOOK yet… its back again. What the hell is going on?

Samuel digs deeper. The visions, the noise, the voices. He ties the shutters yet they bang again. What is happening to him now? The whip sounds, he's on the floor…the pain. He must see a doctor. But the doctor can't believe it. Samuel is mortified as…

He finally discovers the horrifying truth. The hundred and fifty year history engulfs him and…that BOOK. He knows what he must do.

© Mark Fitzpatrick 1999
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