Four Legs in the Morning: A Free Short Story (eBook)

Four Legs in the Morning: A FREE Short Story
by Norman Prentiss

About the eBook:
Dr. Sibley, long-standing Chair of the English and Classical Literature Department at Graysonville University, has outlasted many of his detractors... possibly because mysterious consequences await those who defy or disappoint him. In this stand-alone short story, a new colleague, whose avant-guard theories offend Sibley's traditional critical sensibilities, uncovers a new answer to an ancient riddle...

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This is the first of three stories included in the unannounced, forthcoming Cemetery Dance Signature Series collectible hardcover of the same title. This story is complete and stands on its own; however, for the full Dr. Sibley experience please purchase the book Four Legs in the Morning from Cemetery Dance Publications, which contains two other stories and dozens of exclusive illustrations.

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Bram Stoker Award Winner Norman Prentiss lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and works as a high school English teacher and part-time editor. His fiction has appeared in Tales from the Gorezone, Damned Nation, Postscripts, the Shivers anthology series, and at the Horror Drive-In website. His poetry has appeared in Writer Online, Southern Poetry Review, and Baltimore's City Paper. Invisible Fences is his first published book.

“Norman Prentiss wields a hammer made of whispers. Keep an eye on him, and save a yard of bookshelf space while you’re at it. I have a feeling this talented writer is just getting warmed up.”
—Norman Partridge, Author of Johnny Halloween

“Prentiss drenches his stories in heavy mood and atmosphere, creating shorts that hit hard, yet go down like a fine wine. Every one is to be savored, and none are to be quickly forgotten upon conclusion.”
—Horror Drive-In

“In his ingenious Four Legs in the Morning Norman Prentiss introduces us to Dr. Bennet Sibley, Chair of the English and Classical Literature Department at Graysonville University—an aging academic who never, ever fails to get what he wants. What is his secret? These three interconnected tales, alternately humorous and horrifying, go some distance in answering that question, and offer further evidence (if any is needed) that Norman Prentiss is one of the most important new writers to come along in the genre of dark fiction in years. Bravo!”
—Christopher Conlon, author of Midnight on Mourn Street and Matrix of Angels, Bram Stoker Award winning editor of He is Legend

 “Four Legs in the Morning is a subtle, yet suspenseful, collection in the tradition of the classics. The stories are rich and complex, the characters genuine and engaging, and with DoctorSibley, Prentiss has created an antagonist of Machiavellian proportions. Intelligent, clever, and imaginative; Prentiss is the thinking man’s horror writer.”
—Michael McBride, author of IMMUN3 and Innocents Lost