Grave Secrets Tales of Mystery and Mayhem

By Jeffrey Vavra and Rex Munsee

Monsters come in different guises. Behind the facade of the mundane lurk disturbing events, events that lead to murder. Two men are talking business at a bar, but their business is sinister and deadly. Nothing is troubling about an old elevator in a courthouse until it becomes an entrance to a prehistoric past. A jogger learns from a cuckolded husband the true meaning of violating the Seventh Commandment. Dinner party guests have a taste for delicate meat. A retired cop battles a murderer who never gets his hands dirty when he kills. And a man stumbles into a league of immortal assassins, who kill to protect their heroic reputations. Also, let's not forget a vampire, a teddy bear, a tooth fairy, and more. Nothing is what it seems.

Do you enjoy short tales that leave you unnerved and chilled? This collection will make you glad you lock your doors at night. Or did you...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jeffrey Vavra
• Release date: Feb 13, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393370659

Jeffrey Vavra

Hello, thanks for checking out my book. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. I like the pulps of old with their characters of The Spider, The Shadow, Doc Savage, and the fast pace the outlandish characters and costumes, and yes, even the plots. I am also a fan of comicbooks, action/adventure fiction, western, sci-fi, and horror. Even better yet I enjoy genre mash-ups such as western/horror, sci-fi/western, monsters with action/adventure—you get the idea. Here’s hoping you enjoy the same.

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