Quarter to Midnight: Fifteen Tales of Horror and Suspense

Darcy Coates

Black Owl Books

About this ebook

Push past the curtains of the rational, safe world and explore the un-nameable horrors living in the darkest corners of our conscience. This is the realm of monsters and shifting shadows, where a single wrong step can plunge you into a terrifying, irreversible fight for your life.

- You discover a door behind your bedroom's wallpaper. It's probably just a small crawlspace. There's nothing unusual about it...except for the quiet tapping noise you hear late at night.

- A young child went missing while exploring a disused cemetery in 1965. More than fifty years later you face the gate to the abandoned graveyard, armed with a clue that could lead to answers about the boy's fate.

- A mannequin is stored in the back of your rented basement room. Sometimes its dust cloth falls off. Sometimes you feel it watching you. And sometimes it moves while you're asleep...

Contains fifteen stories by USA Today bestselling horror author Darcy Coates:

Crypt

The Mannequin

Mirror Man

Whose Woods These Are

Cutty Street Lamp

Dead Call

Lucy

Lights Out

Sub Basement

The Watcher

The Mallory Haunting

Crawlspace

Mannering House

Station 331

Hitchhiker

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About the author

Darcy Coates is the USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen horror and suspense novels.

She lives in the Central Coast of Australia with her family, cat, and a collection of chickens. Her home is surrounded by mountainous wilderness on all sides, and she wouldn't have it any other way.