Seeing: Hell Hare House Short Reads, #1

By Patrick Winters

A secret revealed. A legacy undone. A horror immortalised.

For generations, the Berdeaux family name had been synonymous with hospitality and distinction. But that all changed in the summer of 1979, when Dewey Berdeaux's "hobby" came to light. It was a revelation that stunned the town of Barrville, and ever since then, the Berdeaux family mansion has stood as a grim reminder—with its fair share of ghosts, if rumour is to be believed.

Now, a brother and sister will bring their team of paranormal investigators to the ancestral home, seeking evidence of the supernatural. They aim to show the world there is something more beyond our passing.

But sometimes, some things are better left unseen…

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hell Hare House
• Release date: Nov 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201616854

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BLACK HARE PRESS SHORT READS

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THE RISE OF THE GREAT OLD ONE by JASMINE JARVIS

CHRYSALIS by KIMBERLY REI

MOUNT TERROR by E.L. GILES

THE RECKONING by STEPHANIE SCISSOM

THE SPIRIT OF RODEO by BETH W. PATTERSON

CARPE DETRITUS by TIM MENDEES

THE BOOKWORM by L.T. EMERY & ANDREAS HORT

THE SALAMANDRION by MIKE ADAMSON

THIS HIDEOUS JOY by JONATHAN INBODY

THE CORONER by J. MOTOKI

FINGERPRINT FORENSICS SHORT READS

DEAD MAN WALKING by DAVID GREEN

MR HANGMAN by SCOTT MCGREGOR

TH MYSTERIOUS KILLER OF CATS by ZIAUL MOID KHAN

HELL HARE HOUSE SHORT READS

SEEING by PATRICK WINTERS

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Copyright © 2021 Patrick Winters

First published in Australia in October 2021

by Black Hare Press

The author retains the copyright of the works featured in this publication.

All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

All rights reserved. No part of this production may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher and copyright owner.

Edited by D. Kershaw

Formatting by Ben Thomas

Cover design by Dawn Burdett

Connect: linktr.ee/blackharepress

For my parents

who’ve always helped me to see...

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

About the Author

About the Publisher

Chapter One

Even in a scanned copy of a faded photograph, the Berdeaux House was imposing. The catty-corner snapshot captured the place’s enormity, fitting the entirety of the Greek Revival structure into the photo’s frame. The picture’s light brown tinge added to the whole Southern Gothic feel of the property. It would have been a lovely home perhaps a few decades ago, before it had become this weathered shell of itself. A Tennessee sun peeked up and over its slanted roof. It cast the building into a light haze of shadow and made its darkened windows all the darker. Dirt and muck covered the broad walls of its western side, while ivy crawled up the pillars of its northern face, as though nature had been trying to swallow the house up since way back in 1979—but the house just wouldn’t have it. 

From this angle, one could see the house’s wide front doors and the crumbling remnants of steps that led up to them. Beyond a few strands of cautioning police tape, one of the doors was hanging open. Like it was teasing the viewer with an invitation, a chance to see what lay beyond the pitch-black crack between the doors. 

Laura Stark could hear the ghost of Dewey