“A lot of people have wound up in that chair over the years, Gabe. Good people, just like you.” Milo Alpochori had his back to me, but I could see his smug reflection in the gold-trimmed mirror that covered the rear wall of his office. I wasn’t sure if it was a security measure, or if he just liked to look at neither would have surprised me. “I know what goes through a man’s head when he gets into a situation like this, Gabe. Thoughts like ‘what have I done to deserve this?’ and ‘where did I go wrong?’ and most importantly–” Milo turned to face me, his perfect teeth clenched into a cruel little smile– “‘what can I do to make it right?’” A struggling father is forced to work as a late-night chauffeur for a sinister mafioso. An unlucky salvage crew is hired to retrieve a strange object from beneath the waves. A trio of cousins discover something unexpected in their wealthy uncle’s shed. So begin three of John Beardify’s tales of horror, each featuring a unique narrator trapped in terrifying circumstances. Read on…if you dare.