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Thrift Store Puzzles by John Boden

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Thrift Store Puzzles

by John Boden

Ken Allenwood is a man being devoured, from the inside out, one memory at a time.

Literature & Fiction Genre Fiction Horror Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author John Boden
Published 2025
Format Print edition

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About Thrift Store Puzzles

Ken Allenwood is a man being devoured, from the inside out, one memory at a time. A once famed horror writer who now spends his days in an elder care facility waiting for the breath that will be his last and hoping he'll retain at least some memories from his long and unusual life. Has the unraveling fabric of his mind tangled with the threads of his fictive endeavors? Elijah is a boy who adores all things spooky, a boy who spends the bulk of his time alone. Then a change comes to the little town on Cordry. The killings are vicious and devoid of pattern, almost. When Elijah tells Ken about them, the old man grows fearful and decides to use his unreliable windows of focus to help his friends figure out what is going on and who or what is behind the murders. A monster has come to roost in their midst. A creature that craves blood and possibly much more, inheritance of a sort, acknowledgment. A monster from the very dark recesses of Allenwood's mind, a horror very old and very bitter...

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