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    Three Horror Tales
    Three Horror Tales
    Three Horror Tales
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    Three Horror Tales

    By Carl Reader

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    As the title suggests, this offering contains three stories of the strange and grotesque. In "His Angels He Charges With Error" a priest is determined to discover why his brother, also a priest, committed suicide. He's forced to confront a bloody ghost who turned out to be someone he did not expect. In "The Euthanasians" a unique method of disposing of the terminally ill is depicted. Clients take turns in murder. And in "My Father's Watch" an ancient curse attempts to avenge a horrific massacre. The subject stirs up something better left forgotten.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarl Reader
    Release dateMar 19, 2011
    ISBN9781458121417
    Three Horror Tales
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    Carl Reader

    Carl Reader trained as a journalist at Temple University and has worked as a reporter, photographer and editor in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Montana. He's published short stories in literary magazines and on the Internet and has self-published a children's Christmas story called THE TWELFTH ELF OF KINDNESS.That book was partially published in Russia under the Sister Cities program. He's also self-published a novella called THE PERSECUTION OF WILLIAM PENN, which has been well-received in several college libraries. He works as a professional photographer and freelance writer.

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      Three Horror Tales - Carl Reader

      Three Horror Tales

      By

      Carl Reader

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 Carl Reader

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. All characters in these stories are purely fictional Any resemblance to any person, living or dead, is strictly coincidental.

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      His Angels He Charges With Error

      In Michigan

      My Father’s Watch

      His Angels He Charges With Error

      All day and night I raised my eyes to your domain, Heavenly Father, wondering if soon I would join you there by my own design, or if I would be cast down to hell. I watched the deep bright blue of daytime, with its darting doves like spirits free to roam all the world, and I wondered at the black cloth of night above me and wondered if I would have to disgrace the black cloth on my back. With you in mind, night was like a holy garment pierced with pinpricks to let the light of your glory shine through.

      All of my distant family, those relatives who shunned our small religious branch of the clan, said it was such a shame my brother died just after becoming a priest, that in his heart he must have believed hell awaited him, and even that he wanted to go to hell. I say it is a shame he died at all, especially since to my horror and disbelief he found it necessary to take his own life. Neither my mother nor my father thought Enoch was cut out to be a priest, and believed that their bestowing such a ridiculous Biblical name on him influenced him in his decision to destroy himself. In their great guilt, with their tears still awash from sunrise to sunset, they blamed themselves for his self destruction. They believed that absurd name and the ridicule it had always brought down on Enoch had unbalanced his mind, first turning him into a priest and then to a suicide. From the first, they told me, Enoch's name was a curse to him  from the time in elementary school three older, bigger boys beat him when he would not deny his name truly was Enoch Wells to the times later in life when girls made a laughingstock of him, changing his name from Enoch to Eunuch to injure him. With all his heart I knew Enoch loved those who made light of him, made him into a goat to deride and pulled his horns till he bleated Enough of this painful life! Enough! To hell with me where devils will be more kind!

      As a consequence of his name and mistreatment as a child, I doubt that Enoch ever knew the love of a woman in his short, pious life. My parents were sorely grieved by this, and again tore open their own hearts by blaming his faith and consequent death on their naming of him and his unhappy early years. They were doubly shocked and aggrieved when I chose to follow Enoch into the priesthood after his death. They had named me Jonathan, and said it was perfectly natural for others to call me John, and treat me normally, and not abuse me. With tears that once again drew up the recent memories of Enoch's death, they told me that I could be sure of a normal life, saying that my name was the name of a normal man. They blamed their misunderstanding and fears on an absurdly small contribution to Enoch's derangement    his name. They say the Church further unbalanced him, caused his delicate psyche to turn in against itself, and they do so want grandchildren. They say I

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