Out of Time: An Adventure of The Spectre

By K.G. McAbee

The Spectre, also known as the Dead Man Who Walks, lives to protect his people, as have all his family since the first Spectre of Skull Cavern. When a report comes out from the Jungle Patrol, he and his great wolf Demon investigate, only to stumble into something he never expected...

• Language: English
• Publisher: K.G. McAbee
• Release date: Dec 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781311075208

K.G. McAbee

K.G. McAbee has had several books and nearly a hundred short stories published, and some of them are honestly quite readable. She writes steampunk, fantasy, science fiction, horror, pulp, westerns and, most recently, comics. She’s a member of Horror Writers Association and International Thriller Writers and is an Artist in Residence with the South Carolina Arts Commission. Her steampunk/zombie novella recently received an honorable mention in the 3rd quarter Writers of the Future contest.

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Out of Time

An adventure of The Spectre

By K.G. McAbee

Copyright K.G. McAbee 2013

Cover image: public domain, images of Neanderthal skull

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Out of Time

K.G. McAbee

The Dead Man Who Walks, the local natives called him, and believed that he could move on silent feet through all manner of walls and never, ever die.

It's a pity I can't walk through trees, then, thought Carson Traveler, twenty-first in the direct line, fathers to sons, of the Spectre of Skull Cavern. That's a talent that would sure come in handy about now. The undergrowth here is fierce.

Demon whined a warning and his master froze. They were very near the river, just above where it widened out, split in several directions and emptied into the sea.

The sound—if it was a sound—was growing louder.

He'd received a report from the Jungle Patrol over the shortwave at the Skull Cavern that morning: Unexplained noise near the mouth of the Lualaga River. Disappearances. Danger.

The Patrol wouldn't be able to make it until later today; the Spectre was their commander, and