Black Leg: A Tor.com Original

By Glen Hirshberg

Haunted by stories he hears while on jury duty, a documentary filmmaker finds himself in an abandoned mall at the dead of night.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
• Release date: Jul 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781250817976

Glen Hirshberg

Glen Hirshberg received his B.A. from Columbia University, where he won the Bennett Cerf Prize for Best Fiction, and his M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Montana. Glen's first novel, The Snowman's Children, was published by Carroll and Graf in 2002. The Two Sams, published in 2003, has received multiple International Horror Guild and World Fantasy Award nominations. Glen Hirshberg lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife and children.

Book preview

My fault. As usual.

Documentary filmmaker, the prosecutor said, not looking at me or any of the other prospective jurors. He wasn’t even looking at his legal pad, only the defendant. Even so, everyone in the room felt the weight of his glare. What sort of documentaries would those be?

Can prospective jurors plead the fifth? I wondered. Then I thought maybe in this case the truth really would set me free. Ghost hunting, I mumbled. I followed these two—

Ghost hunting, said the lawyer. His smile didn’t even reach his mouth, let alone his eyes. And it was definitely meant to intimidate me. Or else he was just amused. "So you’re not planning to make a film about this case,