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Ameri-Scares: Washington: The Deep Dark Down

By Elizabeth Massie
Ameri-Scares: Washington: The Deep Dark Down by Elizabeth Massie digital book - Fable

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Thirteen-year-old Anya Sullivan dreams of being an actress. Her twin, Austin, loves creating his own superhero comic books. While out by the pond in the woods, taking reference photos for Austin's newest comic, the twins discover a hole that has been covered up for more than a hundred years. Wondering how deep it is, Austin drops a plank of wood down the hole. They hear no echo, and guess it goes down a very long way.

The twins think little about it and leave the pond. However, the very same plank of wood shows up that night at their home. Did Donnie Kent, the creepy neighbor kid, manage somehow to pull it out and then leave it where the twins could find it in hopes of scaring them? Or…did the plank crawl there on its own?

Over the next two days, things that shouldn't be alive become alive, and some of the things are terrifying and vicious. Researching on the computer, Austin and Anya learn about the scientist who, long ago, had owned the land with the pond. And he knew the dark secrets of the mysterious, deep hole. But before the twins can properly seal the hole up again, Anya finds herself in a terrifying situation in which only her courage, and skill as an actress, can save her from certain doom.

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About Elizabeth Massie

Elizabeth Massie is an award-winning author of horror novels and collections, short horror fiction, licensed media tie-ins (Dark Shadows, The Tudors, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more), mainstream fiction, historical fiction, poetry, and educational fiction and nonfiction. Her works span a wide audience, with books for adults, young adults, middle grade readers and children, as well. Her novella "Stephen" (1991) and novel Sineater (1993) both received a Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers of America. Thy Will Be Done, her 2010 novelization of the third season of Showtime's original television series, The Tudors, won a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. Best selling author Bentley Little has said, "Elizabeth Massie is personally one of my favorite authors. Her writing is true, heartfelt, and wildly original. She is one of the greats."

Elizabeth presents creative writing workshops up and down the East Coast to students in grades 3-12 as well as at the university level. She's been a member of the human rights organization Amnesty International for 30 years. Elizabeth loves geocaching, hiking, and chai, and hates cheese, snobbery, and doing laundry.

She lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where she was born and grew up, and she shares life and abode with her husband, illustrator/artist Cortney Skinner. She can be reached through her website: www.elizabethmassie.com or through Facebook.

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