Monsters in the Mills

<p><strong>Deep in the Weeds They Wait</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Behind graffitied fences or obscured by woods the abandoned mills of New England watch...for thrillists and historians urbexers and developers or just the average passer-by. Omnipresent and looming the mills lure the innocent to their mysteries secrets...and terrors.</p><p> </p><p>The <em>We are Providence writers</em> hunt what lurks among the crumbled bricks and strangling sumac. A widower on a demolition crew wakes the revenants. A musician rents a foundry's rehearsal space...and otherworldly tenants practice on him. A lonely girl combs the ruins to find an unsettling friend. A bitter punk moves into a refinery where her best friend vanishes. A criminal breaks into a cloth factory to discover a sentient-and sinister-machine.</p><p> </p><p>These sixteen terrifying tales and two poems suggest when abandoned mills beckon it's best to ignore them.</p><p> </p><p>After all they've come to collect their due.</p>