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    Glass Darkly & The Skull in the Box
    Glass Darkly & The Skull in the Box
    Glass Darkly & The Skull in the Box
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    Glass Darkly & The Skull in the Box

    By Dan McGirt

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    Some evils never die. Occult investigator Glass Darkly gets an unusual invitation to view a cursed lantern made from the skull of a long dead warlock. The Callitt Lantern was said to be destroyed in a tragic fire many years ago. Is this the real artifact or merely a clever fake? Knowing the lantern's dark and bloody history, Glass is compelled to learn more. But will satisfying her curiosity make Glass Darkly the lantern's latest victim?

    The Skull in the Box is a supernatural short story of occult horror and mystery that introduces Glass Darkly, a paranormal investigator and occult writer who is not afraid to pursue the dark truths that haunt our nightmares.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrove Books
    Release dateApr 1, 2018
    ISBN9781370319763
    Glass Darkly & The Skull in the Box
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    Dan McGirt

    Dan McGirt is the author of the Jason Cosmo fantasy adventure series, the Jack Scarlet action-adventure series, Sarah Palin: Vampire Hunter and assorted other tales, some sordid, most not. His most recent story is Glass Darkly & The Skull in the Box, an occult mystery short story. When not writing, Dan enjoys whitewater kayaking, long walks in the forest, and building homemade time machines.

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      Glass Darkly & The Skull in the Box - Dan McGirt

      Glass Darkly & The Skull in the Box

      A Glass Darkly Occult Mystery

      Dan McGirt

      Glass Darkly & The Skull in the Box

      Copyright © Dan McGirt, 2018

      All rights reserved.

      Published 2018 by Trove Books LLC

      TroveBooks.com

      Cover by April Martinez, Graphicfantastic.com

      Smashwords Edition 1.1, April 2018

      Table of Contents

      The Skull in the Box

      Author’s Note

      About the Author

      More by Dan McGirt

      Copyright

      The Skull in the Box

      It was sweet lady nicotine that pulled Glass Darkly out post-midnight onto this drab gulch of a downtown Atlanta street between the Hilton and a multi-story parking garage. Oh, she knew better. She knew cigarettes would kill her dead in time if something else didn’t get her first. But when a girl’s been cursed by a Carolina root doctor and a Serbian hate witch—thankfully, not at the same time—the ill effects of smoking move way down her list of worries.

      Glass extracted her favorite little Bettie Page lighter and a crumpled pack of Black Cats from her voluminous leather purse as she drifted down the hill, weaving her way through a knot of revelers outside the cave-like entrance of a tired tiki bar in the hotel basement.

      It was the first full night of MagniCon, so nearly half the group were costumed up as comic book heroes, aliens, vampires, and other characters of fantasy and folklore. Most of the rest wore the default con attire of cargo shorts or tights with a fandom-themed t-shirt. That wasn’t counting the steampunks, who were like a whole other species with their goggles and brass accessories and too much brown leather.

      Glass dressed as herself. She was wary of costumes ever since that macabre and fatal masquerade ball in New Orleans some years back. Domino masks still made her think of straight razors. So Glass stuck to her Lucky Dog jeans and a charcoal silk lace-up top she got on sale at Lana’s back home in Arden. The tall black boots and blacker lipstick were holdovers from her Goth girl days, along with a heavy hand on the eyeliner. That was her only concession to the convention aesthetic.

      The tiki bar people were drinking, laughing, and having good-natured arguments about geeky minutia. Many had cigarettes in hand, but Glass was not a social smoker.

      Smokers annoyed her, to tell the truth.

      Glass nodded

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