Monster Proof

By Scot McAtee

Tucked in an empty corner of the Great Plains lies Winston Manor, the “Monster Proof” home of one Mr. Winston, a rich old eccentric who believes in all sorts of scary monsters. He also believes they’re out to get him, which is why his spacious mansion has the ultimate home defense system. Nothing can get in because nothing can even reach the building.

Judy Barnes is a young journalist who has managed to wrangle an interview from the old coot. She’s determined to find out just how monster proof Winston Manor really is for reasons that will quickly become apparent, but will it be too late for the old man to see what’s hiding below her Plain Jane appearance?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scot McAtee
• Release date: Oct 11, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301100736

Scot McAtee

Scot McAtee started out his professional life teaching High School English in Northern Indiana. After a year long stint in Inchon, Korea, teaching English to native Koreans, he returned to Indiana where he teaches High School classes in Business and Computer Sciences. He spends his free time creating movies, video games, digital music and writing other sci-fi and horror novels. His favorite authors are George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Aldous Huxley and Clive Cussler. And although it may be hard for Westerners to see the likeness, his Korean students frequently called him Brad Pitt.

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It was Thursday, 4:30pm. Like every afternoon, Skip McMurray was headed for the abandoned theater at the edge of town. The Regal was an Art Deco playhouse built in the Twenties but unused since the mid Nineties, when a ten screen Cineplex popped up in a strip mall on the other side of town. It was Skip’s favorite place in the world because it was his place to get away from his troubles. It was a nice contrast to the chaos that had become his life.

The Regal was only two blocks from the town line but it was like a whole other world. The original owners had bought up the surrounding thirty acres of woods, thick second-cut swampy plains forest, with plans to develop it into a Victorian style park with The Regal with its centerpiece. They built The Regal first as a way to finance the development of the park, but history and bad management choices conspired against them. The Stock Market Crash of 1929 caused their customer base to dry up and the ensuing Great Depression drove them out of business. They held onto