They dug for water. Something answered.

Summer, 1933. Blackridge is dying of thirst.

The river has rotted to a trickle. Crops are turning to dust. When the government sends a civil engineer to dig a new well, the town sees salvation.

Thirty feet down, the ground begins to hum.

Forty feet down, a man disappears.

What they uncover beneath the clay is not limestone. It is a chamber fused like melted glass, lined with handprints pressed deep into stone. At its center waits a pool of black water that does not reflect light.

Then the rain comes.

Blackridge survives the drought. Three men do not.

No one speaks of what was found. The pit is sealed. Reports are filed. The town prospers.

But something remains beneath it.

The Well That Watches is a chilling historical horror prequel to The Harvest Town, the origin of the secret buried under Blackridge, and the first bargain that shaped everything that followed.

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"The Well That Watches"

by Lance Jepsen