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When the Night Bells Ring
When the Night Bells Ring
When the Night Bells Ring
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When the Night Bells Ring

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Don't awaken what sleeps in the dark.

In a future ravaged by fire and drought, two climate refugees ride their motorcycles across the wasteland of the western US, and stumble upon an old silver mine. Descending into the cool darkness of the caved-in tunnels in desperate search of water, the two women find Lavinia Cain’s diary, a settler in search of prosperity who brought her family to Nevada in the late 1860s.

But Lavinia and the settlers of the Western town discovered something monstrous that dwells in the depths of the mine, something that does not want greedy prospectors disturbing the earth. Whispers of curses and phantom figures haunt the diary, and now, over 150 years later, trapped and injured in the abandoned mine, the women discover they’re not alone . . . with no easy way out.

The monsters are still here—and they’re thirsty.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherCamCat Books
Release dateOct 11, 2022
ISBN9780744306316
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Jo Kaplan

Jo Kaplan is an author based in the Los Angeles area who writes with much encouragement from her husband and two cats. Her fiction (as Joanna Parypinski) has appeared in publications such as Black Static, Nightmare Magazine, Vastarien, Haunted Nights (edited by Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton), and New Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (edited by Jonathan Maberry). She teaches English and creative writing at Glendale Community College, where she also plays cello in the GCC orchestra.

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