Montrose Horror Tales

Montrose, the diverse, infamous, and legendary neighborhood in Houston, Texas, sets the stage for these four chilling, unconventional, uniquely suspenseful short horror tales!In the first tale, set in 1987, find out what drove an eight-year-old boy to murder in a Montrose apartment complex one stormy November night in "Petrichor."Ten years later, two twenty-something male film students and a thirty-something out of work exotic dancer's lives are forever altered when they stop for gas at a relic of a gas station in the comedy-horror tale "God Don't Like Ugly." In "Love, Why Don't You Stay," a homicide investigation, whose murders are likened to an urban legend about a 1920's coven, is swept up in supernatural occurrences. before the investigation is solved. In the fourth tale, a nightclub owner's life is thrust into a dizzying tailspin when he becomes a person of interest in his ex-lover's murder in "The Devil's Breath."This second edition of Montrose Horror Tales includes an excerpt from Mike James' upcoming novel "The Discontent Lovers!"