Jamie is new in town, so he doesn’t really know the legends of Old Man Zahn’s house. He doesn’t have years of terror built up in him. Perhaps that’s why it was so easy for him to walk into the house that terrified the other boys and see first-hand the terror that is the House of Zahn in this new short fiction from Adam Wynn.
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