If you love scary abandoned (several pieces also 34 Orchard vibe and two, in fact, are from past 34O contributors), you’ll love Monsters in the Mills, which is now available in instant e-book and paperback pre-order. Here’s the scoop:
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.
The We are Providence writers 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 are practicing on him. A lonely girl combs the ruins to find an unsettling friend; a bitter punk moves into a refinery where her bestie vanished, and a criminal breaks into a cloth factory to discover a sentient—and sinister—machine.
These eighteen terrifying tales suggest when abandoned mills beckon, it’s best to ignore them.
After all, they’ve come to collect their due.
You can get the ebook instantly or pre-order the paperback here: https://bit.ly/4bhZmWa
SPECIAL OFFER! Take a photo of yourself with the paperback and email it to me at 34orchardjournal@gmail.com – and I’ll mail you a limited edition custom-made laminated, durable souvenir bookmark (I hand make these; they’re not the stuff you get online. Trust me, these’ll last you FOREVER).
ToC:
“The Children at the Spindles,” Mary Robles
“The Web,” Joshua Rex
“Under the Frozen Sky,” Brennan LaFaro
“Darkness Repeats,” L. E. Daniels
“Mill Dues,” Jason Parent
“The Cleaner,” Victoria Dalpe
“The Circle,” Christa Carmen
“In the Belly of the Mills,” Elizabeth Devecchi
“The Gourmand,” Mr Michael Squid
“The Spinning Mule,” Paul Magnan
“Gourd Guy,” Rick Claypool
“Strike,” Jessica P. Wick
“Blackstone,” Steven P. Belanger
“The Medians of Providence,” Errick Nunnally
“Cinched,” Kristi Petersen Schoonover
“We Created a God Monster,” Gage Greenwood & Kylee Jones
“Kiss of Death,” Ricardo D. Rebelo
“The Devolution of Doyle,” Aron Beauregard
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