The Hours Before Dawn

By Roger A. Ott II

Incarcerated at a high-security mental facility, Raymond Schalk knows intimate details of a recent spree of serial murders, and claims it was he who committed MURDER BY THE NUMBERS! A bewildering power outage brings security guards Ross Clifton and Jeff Albright face-to-face with THE THING IN UNIT 57! After picking up a mysterious hitchhiker during a northern Michigan blizzard, Robert Sanberg discovers something is very OUT OF PLACE! Dwight Alan Stedman suddenly confesses to the murder of several youths fifty years ago, claiming they are back from the dead for revenge, but only he can see what's really BENEATH THE SURFACE! Two years after Edgar Holt makes a deal with an eccentric flea market vendor for an elixir to save his life, the payment for IMMORTALIS comes due in blood! Police Detectives Ralph Mayhew and Ethan Stolliday uncover the dark and supernatural designs of a serial killer as they pursue THE THIEF OF YEARS! Writer/artist Jason Carmichael is the hottest ticket in comic books, but one of his characters doesn't like the plot of the latest issue. See, I TOLD YOU COMICS BOOKS WERE BAD FOR YOU! These stories and more await inside...

• Language: English
• Publisher: RO2 Solutions
• Release date: Feb 21, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215922125

Roger A. Ott II

Roger Ott has been writing stories since he was in grade school, honing his talents over the decades by crafting suspenseful short stories and novels. An avid comic book fan and historian, he has professionally written over two dozen character profiles and text pieces for Marvel Comics' Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and related publications since 2011. Roger's first published fiction was a short story in the 2021 anthology title FAMILY by Terror Tract Publishing. Roger lives in beautiful small-town northern Michigan with his wife, Carla.

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