The Hilliard Haunting: A Novella by Scott Donnelly - HTML preview

CHAPTER X

Epilogue

As the sun rose on the cold morning of November 1st, the fire department was on the scene at the Watkins’ property.  After hours of battling the flames, they were able to extinguish the threat, and it left the house in a pile of charred rubble. 

A portion of the cornfield that sat next to the house had been singed and left a vacant space in the lot.  All that was left of Raven’s terror was a pile of black ash and a body count. 

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Neither Kevin nor Holly slept.  They went back to Holly’s house after they left the Watkins’ home to burn.  Holly had cautiously walked into her bedroom, expecting to see a decaying corpse of Ava, but it was gone.  There was no sign of her, or any evidence that anything was ever wrong.  The electricity was back on, the phones and cars worked – it was almost like nothing even happened.

But Kevin and Holly knew something happened.  Something unexplainable.  The supernatural force of a murdered witch had overpowered Hilliard.  Raven’s hatred and anger towards the city had reached its breaking point, and she unleashed a terrifying hell upon the town.  People were dead, and an old rage was to blame.

Raven was burned alive for her craft, but her spirit never left her home.  It took to shape of a ghoulish presence and inflicted a disturbing punishment upon a city that shunned her, blamed her, and ultimately killed her.

The haunting of Hilliard had come to an end, but for how long?  Raven had been burned alive once before, and was reborn as a morbid, vicious creature.  Who’s to say it won’t happen again?