Monster Till Midnight

By E.J. Russell

What if you staged the best haunted house in the history of Halloween, but nobody came?

 

Brady is prepared with mounds of treats, stellar special effects, and an extraordinary welcome for the throngs of trick-or-treaters he expects in his first year at his new place—a gloriously gothic house with the reputation for really being haunted! But the trick's on Brady: Halloween is almost over and not one person has knocked on his door.

Once a top Interdimensional Law Enforcement agent, Rej was busted down to Creature Control after a run-in with his arch-nemesis. When he tracks a non-sentient construct across the dimensional barrier, he's sure he's about to confront Gorvenath again. But the person who bursts onto the porch in a swirl of tuxedo coattails is a monster of a very different sort—but is he Gorvenath's accomplice or his victim?

Monster Till Midnight is an 11,000-word gay romance featuring a hopeful samhainophile, a suspicious LEO, gratuitous candy corn, tap-dancing, and a relationship that threatens to be really, really, really long distance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Reality Optional Press
• Release date: Nov 7, 2018
• ISBN: 9781947033009

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright

About Monster Till Midnight

Dedication

Keep in Touch - wide

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Next - wide

A Message from E.J.

Also by E.J. Russell

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. All person(s) depicted on the cover are model(s) used for illustrative purposes only.

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Cross-dimensional fugitive pursuit. Potentially deadly bioengineered creatures. Sinister artifacts. Stolen kisses. Time travel.

Also candy corn.

And tap dancing.

You know… the usual.

For everyone who likes giggles along with their chills.

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Rej hadn’t intended to break the terms of his probation. He was doing exactly what his restricted duties demanded—tracking a non-sentient construct that had slipped across the boundary from a techno-sorcery node into Alpha Prime two-niner, a magic-null time thread.

But when he broke out of the tree line and saw the house looming beyond a dying corn field, he knew he was screwed. Or rather, Alpha Prime two-niner was screwed. Because Rej would have known that house for Gorvenath’s anywhere. The bastard had a taste for turrets.

At least they’re not made of bones. Yet.

Gorvenath. Rej ground his teeth together. Gorvenath was the reason for Rej’s probation, the reason he’d been busted down from Interdimensional Law Enforcement to Interdimensional Creature Control. Unfortunately, Rej’s professional setbacks were irrelevant compared to the real danger Gorvenath posed to the time stream.

Rej’s captain acknowledged the threat, even sympathized with Rej’s point of view. But until they had clear evidence that Gorvenath was behind the attacks across half the post-2K time nodes, their hands were tied. And I’m stuck as a cross-dimensional dog catcher for the foreseeable future.

Sure, the criminals could break the rules, but let a LEO bend one little regulation…

He studied the layout of the grounds. The house was isolated—no other buildings within sight, either on the narrow gravel road or beyond