Some come to work
Some come to be healed
Some come to die
…Welcome to Strident House!

Kit and Brandon Walker learn that their mother has died suddenly under mysterious circumstances. They are called back to Indiana to settle her affairs. They also decide on placement for their older handicapped brother, Luke. While they settle Luke in a Midwestern mansion that houses the special healthcare center, they encounter a threatening, ancient, and unexpected evil.

The facility is filled with the ghosts of a prominent family’s tragic past. Unspeakable secrets become the dark beating heart beneath the modern veneer of the health care center. Some spirits come to work. Some come to be healed. Some come to die. When a team of paranormal investigators is called to uncover the cause of a patient’s inexplicable demise, their search will lead them to the most hellish collection of entities they’ve ever faced.

WELCOME TO STRIDENT HOUSE!

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STRIDENT HOUSE
Ghost Horror
BY P. MATTERN

Excerpt

The hall was gloomy—somehow the power had gone out. The only light came from the occasional flashes of the storm outside and the soft glow of her phone.

Kit felt disoriented and afraid. She was trying to find Lukens, but the old building she was in looked familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. It was a relic from a bygone era, with its demi-pillars and arched hallway ceilings… She tried to focus on the fresco painted above her head.

At first, it had appeared as a scene of golden-haired angels cavorting on fluffy sunlit clouds, but the longer she had stared above, the more it seemed to change and darken until the clouds were a roiling brown and the angelic beings had morphed into Pan-like creatures with horns, hooves and lightning bolts in their hands.

As she inched down the hallway, a figure appeared at the far end. Even before he spoke, she recognized him.

“Brandon!” she cried, running toward him. She wanted to throw her arms around him and admit she couldn’t find Luke, but as she got closer, he held his hand out flat, as though to ward her off.

“Don’t come any closer, Kit,” he said in a tortured voice. “They want both of us, but I told them they couldn’t have you!”

Kit stopped about four feet from her brother.

“Bran, what are you talking about? We have to find Luke!” she shouted over the storm. The wind and rain had picked up, and she could hardly hear herself. “You have to come with me,” she implored, but Bran shook his head.

“I can’t… I’ve been marked…” he said, looking at her with glassy eyes. “Just turn around and never look back… I saw them, Kit… I saw them and look what they did, Kit! Just look at what they’ve done to me!”

About Author P. Mattern…