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Down a Dark Hall: "I'm Standing over Here!"
Down a Dark Hall: "I'm Standing over Here!"
Down a Dark Hall: "I'm Standing over Here!"
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Over three hundred halls of many different lengths form a confusing, dangerous maze in this enormous institute for criminally insane youth in the early 1960s.

This story was inspired by the real experience of a 16-year-old youth whom was wrongfully convicted of a crime, then misdiagnosed as criminally insane. In this story, he is known by the pseudonym of Jeremy Calder.

During his two-year incarceration, terror swept through the institute, often causing riots, when partly dismembered bodies of inmates were being found in the halls.

The four central characters are Jeremy, Toby, Billy (The Rabid Butterfly), and Gary, with occasional appearances by God, Time, Night, Magic, and other mystical entities.

LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateMar 9, 2010
ISBN9781450206280
Down a Dark Hall: "I'm Standing over Here!"
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John A. Reid

John Reid is an illustrator/designer living in Toronto, Canada. He began his literary career ten years ago with "Down a Dark Hall," and has since written many other novels and collections of short stories.

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