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The Things That Come After Light
The lighthouse at Port Blakeney had been dark for thirty-seven years.
Ezra Cole stood at its base on an October evenin…
The lighthouse at Port Blakeney had been dark for thirty-seven years.
Ezra Cole stood at its base on an October evening in 1987, the wind coming off the Atlantic sharp enough to cut, and tried to remember a time when he hadn't known what waited in the absence of that light. He was twenty-three years old, which meant he had lived twenty-three years with the knowing.
Gothic Fiction
Lovecraftian horror
Southern Gothic
Thriller