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The Eidola Project
by Robert Herold
The Eidola Project is recruiting. Dare to join them?
It’s 1885 and a drunk and rage-filled Nigel Pickford breaks up a phonymedium’s séance. A strange twist of fate soon finds him part of a teaminvestigating the afterlife.
The Eidola Project is an intrepid group of explorers dedicated tobringing the light of science to that which has been feared, misunderstood, andoften manipulated by charlatans. They are a psychology professor, hisassistant, an African-American physicist, a sideshow medium, and now aderelict, each possessing unique strengths and weaknesses.
Called to the brooding Hutchinson Estate to investigate rumoredhauntings, they encounter deadly supernatural forces and a young woman drivento the brink of madness.
Will any of them survive?
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Sarah retrieved the lamp and twisted the peg. The outhouse door swungopen on its own, and she gasped.
“Momma?” Sarah askedas she held out her lantern. No. A ruined version of Molly stood in thedoorway.
Before herdisappearance, people often commented on the sixteen-year-old’s beauty, but inthe last twenty-eight days birds pecked out her pretty blue eyes, and maggotsnow swam in the sockets. Molly’s head hung to the left at an odd angle. Herskin looked mottled with patches of gray, blue, and black. A beetle crawled outof Molly’s half-opened mouth and darted back in.
Sarah’s heart leapedto her throat, and she jumped back. She lost her footing, fell onto theouthouse seat, and dropped the lantern to the floor. She bent to retrieve it;thankful the glass globe did not break. Sarah looked up and saw an emptydoorway.
Impossible, she toldherself. Must’ve dozed off, had a nightmare, and woke up when I dropped thelamp. Her heart still pounded in her chest, and Sarah took a deep breath tocalm herself.
Holding the lamp before her once more, she crept out…
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Meet Robert Herold
The supernatural always had the allure of forbidden fruit, ever sinceRobert Herold’s mother refused to allow him, as a boy, to watch creaturefeatures on late night TV. She caved in. (Well, not literally.)
As a child, fresh snow provided him the opportunity to walk out ontoneighbors’ lawns halfway and then make paw prints with his fingers as far as hecould stretch. He would retrace the paw and boot prints, then fetch theneighbor kids and point out that someone turned into a werewolf on their frontlawn. (They were skeptical.)
He has pursued many interests over the years (among them being ahistory teacher and a musician), but the supernatural always called to him. Youcould say he was haunted. Finally, following the siren’s call, he wrote TheEidola Project, based on a germ of an idea he had as a teenager.
Ultimately, he hopes the book gives you the creeps, and he means thatin the best way possible.
FINAL THOUGHT From Robert Herold: Remember, there’s no place like A HAUNTED home for the holidays!
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