Lost Hollow constable Graham Gordon just walked into his abandoned childhood home for the first time in twenty years. Local teenagers have been spreading rumors about disembodied screams coming from inside. Now, thanks to a rickety set of cellar stairs and the hateful spirit of his dead father, he might never escape. Meanwhile, Channel 6 News feature reporter Afia Afton-whose father is the victim of a local decades-old hate crime-is meeting with town administrator Patsy Blankenship. Her mission is to develop a ghost story feature for a special to air on the station's Halloween broadcast. When Patsy tells her about the screams at the Gordon place, the past and the present are set on a collision course with potentially catastrophic results. Can Graham come to terms with his father's past and redeem his own future? Can the murder mystery that has haunted Afia for most of her life finally be solved? It's a fight for the future the past when spirit and flesh wage war at the Gordon place. For more information about the tropes and contents of this story, please see the author's website: www.isaacthorne.com/gordon-place