Among the Cemetery Trees

By R.C. Mulhare

It started as just a job in a cemetery for Nick Laird and his tree-trimming crew. But an urban legend inspired by a particular monument turned into a horrifying reality that turns their world inside out.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R.C. Mulhare
• Release date: Sep 2, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393352242

R.C. Mulhare

R.C. Mulhare was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and grew up in one of the surrounding towns, in a hundred year old house up the street from an old cemetery. Her interest in the dark and mysterious started when she was quite young, when her mother read the faery tales of the Brothers Grimm and quoted the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe to her, while her Irish storyteller father infused her with a fondness for strange characters and quirky situations. When she isn't writing, she moonlights in grocery retail. She's also fond of hiking in the woods of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and browsing the antiques shops one finds all over New England. A two-time Amazon best-selling author, contributor to the Hugo nominated Archive of Our Own, and member of the New England Horror Writers, her work has also appeared with Atlantean Publishing, Macabre Maine, FunDead Publications. Nocturnal Sirens Publishing, Deadman's Tome, NEHW Press, DBND Publishing, and Weirdbook Magazine, with more stories releasing almost every month. She shares her home with her family, two small parrots, about fifteen hundred books and an unknown number of eldritch things that rattle in the walls when she's writing late in the night.... 

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Among the Cemetery Trees

R.C. Mulhare

Published by R.C. Mulhare, 2019.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

AMONG THE CEMETERY TREES

First edition. September 2, 2019.

Copyright © 2019 R.C. Mulhare.

ISBN: 978-1393352242

Written by R.C. Mulhare.

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Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Among the Cemetery Trees | by R.C. Mulhare

Also By R.C. Mulhare

About the Author

For Cary Daniels

(1959-2019)

Thank you for all that you gave to the independant horror world

Among the Cemetery Trees

by R.C. Mulhare

WET LEAVES SLAPPED against the windows of Nick Laird’s tree service truck as he pulled onto Knapp Avenue, passing several old Victorians converted to apartment houses, which gave way to wide green stretches before more houses set far back from the road. Herbie Maguire, the new kid on the crew, fresh out of Essex Agricultural School and currently occupying the shotgun seat, polished his eyeglasses with a red bandanna handkerchief before slipping them back onto his too-thin face and adjusting them.

Trees respect you if you respect them, Laird said, giving the speech he’d given new trainees since he took over for his father, fifteen years ago, the kind of speech Mick, Herbie’s uncle, had given Laird when he looked as green as the kid next to him.

Sounds almost like something uncle Mick would say,