But also not alike,” she retorted in a tone she hadn’t used before. It was an escalation of sorts, at least he took it that way. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.

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I have a gun, Amos. My old service automatic. I haven’t held it in years. But it fits my hand so fine. I remembered the gun safe combination, can you believe that? After I forgot pretty much everything else, I remembered that. I suppose it was…an omen of sorts,” she added offhandedly. The casket had been closed. The gunshot had been fired upward through the mouth, leaving Mary Lancaster beyond the magic of the mortician’s cosmetics, and thus unviewable.

He had gone there the month before for some routine tests, which they had done on him annually ever since he had been there as a patient after his football injury. And then came the oppressive thud of Mary Lancaster’s body hitting the floor. He was certain she was dead. Lancaster had always been a good planner, results oriented. Such people excelled at killing themselves.