It Haunts the Mind by Nick Roberts EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Nick Roberts
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- Genre: Horror Short Stories
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Sally Underthe Bed
Tasha Brown had nothing, and she knew it. The pressure of contributing a
monthly—sometimes weekly—article to her online publisher was as
terrifying at times as it was a motivation. She normally thrived on
deadlines. With years of experience cranking out quality work during
crunch time, she learned how to trust her instincts and produce like the
professional that she was.
Not this time, however. This time, the white page on her computer screen
seemed determined to stay blank, taunting her with every wink of the
cursor.
She specialized in darkness. Any “true” story of the supernatural was up
for grabs, though she tended to stay away from legends that had been done
to death: mainstreamers like Bigfoot, Area 51, Chupacabra, etc. Her
investigative nose was drawn more toward the obscure. After her husband
and daughter would go to sleep, she would put on a pot of coffee and scour
the infinite recesses of the internet, reading one ghoulish tale after another,
each more disturbing than the last.
The first story she sold nearly twenty years ago (back when physical
publications’ sales began their downward trajectory) was to a local
quarterly magazine called The West Virginia Review. They were running a
contest for new insights into known Appalachian cryptids. At first, she
thought about researching the Mothman of Point Pleasant or the Braxton
County Monster but figured everyone would try to cover one of those. She
even briefly considered Bat Boy from the glory days of the Weekly World
News tabloid, knowing full well that it was a completely fabricated story.
Ultimately, she landed on the “Hill People” of West Virginia—the
supposed inspiration for the then-newly released film Wrong Turn, which
depicted a group of stranded teens getting picked off by a family of inbred
cannibals residing in the Appalachian hills.
This portrayal of West Virginia
hillbillies was not well received by the locals, so Tasha knew she was
writing an uphill battle. It was her skillful approach of addressing the
stereotype from the movie, as well as tracing the film’s true inspiration back
to the sixteenth-century account of the Sawney Bean clan of Scotland that
won her the cash prize and publication, and her momentum never slowed.
All that meant dogshit right now. She had four days to produce a 2000-
word profile of a relatively unknown “true” account of some spooky
occurrence, and she had nothing.
There was always the option of going on
scary story websites and trying to track down anything that claimed to be
based in reality, but that was the easy way out. She prided herself on
discovering something new to bring to the world.
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