The Shack of Old Jack (The Skull's Grin #1)
(By C.M. Allen)
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And this short story finds all kinds of smiles...
Deep in the hot and humid atmosphere of a Louisiana swamp, near a bayou of stagnant evil and lurking gators, and far from any road or path that's safe to walk at night, there stands a Shack. A Shack of unimaginable power. She is a silent presence: four walls and a sloped roof, a wood porch, and bone decorations hanging from her rafters, yet she draws all in with her sheer force of will. The song of the Shack brings the worst of people to her glade.
Sat beside the shack is a man named Sam, a storyteller and lonesome soul that finds comfort in the flames that he stokes and the skull that sits beside him on a log. A skull called Jack.
Yet loneliness is not for Sam forever, for another man wanders into his midst, following the song of the Shack. As he sits down to drink with Sam, the man begins his tales.
And when Sam tells his tales, the Shack becomes hungry. And Jack thirsts for blood.
This short story is written in an unusual style, placing all of the tale's trust in Sam's good hands, The Shack of Old Jack travels roads never seen before, rewriting horror into the creeping dread of human frailties, and joining philosophy, blood, psychological fear, and the disturbing nature of an eternal skull in one tightly woven short story.”
