Things You Need

Kevin Lucia is this generations answer to Charles L. Grant. - Brian Keene The things we want are so very rarely the things we need. Clifton Heights a modest Adirondack town offers many unique attractions. Arcane Delights sells both paperbacks and hard-to-find limited editions. The Skylark Diner serves the best home-cooked meals around with friendly service and a smile. Every August Mr. Jingos County Fair visits to the delight of children and adults. In essence Clifton Heights is the quintessential small American town. Everyone knows everyone else and everyone is treated like family. It is quiet simple and peaceful. But shadows linger here. Flitting in dark corners from the corner of the eye. If you walk down Main Street after dark the slight scrape of shoes on asphalt whispers youre not alone but when you look over your shoulder no one is there. The moon shines high and bright in the night sky but instead of throwing light it only seems to make the shadows lengthen. Children disappear. Teens run away. Hunters get lost in the woods with frightening regularity. Husbands go mad and wives vanish in the dead of night. And still when the sun rises in the morning you are greeted by townspeople with warm waves and friendly smiles and the shivers pass as everything seems fresh and new... Until night falls once more. Handys Pawn and Thrift sits several blocks down from Arcane Delights. Like any thrift store its wares range from the mundane to the bizarre. By daylight it seems just another slice of small town Americana. But in its window hangs a sign which reads: We Have Things You Need. And when a lonely traveling salesman comes looking for something he desperately wants after normal visiting hours after night has fallen he will face a harsh truth among the shelves of Handys Pawn and Thrift: the things we want are rarely the things we need. Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing--Tales from the Darkest Depths.