Mark Stattelman

And You Shall Not Live! and other stories Mark Stattelman

-The ghost of a young girl appears at the bed of soldiers in a hospital. She is the final arbiter of life and death. Her name is Emily and she almost always pronounces death. Is there any escape from her judgment? One man thinks so.-A man watches his clock one lazy afternoon, trying to discern why it seems to be slipping. He has tried everything to fix the slippage, all to no avail. This particular afternoon he, himself, inadvertently slips back in time. He manipulates physical objects while in the past. Is it a dream?-A young man falls in love with a woman with beautiful eyes. But what mystery lies beneath the 'veil' covering the lower half of her face? All will be revealed on their wedding night. Can he stand the horror?-In the story, Quicksand (an homage to Poe's The Gold Bug), two men solve a cryptogram inscribed on the inside of two skulls. This leads them to a buried chest. Upon opening the chest, will they find untold treasure, or unimaginable terror?These terrifying stories and more await in this third volume of 14 Dark Tales of the Civil War: And You Shall Not Live! plus other stories . . .