There Be Monsters: Among the Dead: Thirteen Tales of Burial Folklore and Restless Spirits

The dead are supposed to stay where we put them.A veteran hospice nurse agrees to sit with a dying mortician until sunrise. His final warning is simple: after he dies, no matter what she hears, she must not answer him.A grieving father hears three knocks at his front door. On the third night, the voice outside belongs to his dead son.A construction crew discovers that the bodies from an old cemetery were never moved, despite what the official records claim.And in a family-owned funeral home, a tradition about how the dead are carried out begins to make terrible sense.Some traditions were never just superstitions.In There Be Monsters: Among the Dead, T. P. Grimbard presents thirteen tales of supernatural horror exploring what happens when death fails to keep its promises.From haunted homes and forgotten graveyards to old burial practices and creatures drawn from centuries of folklore, these stories follow ordinary people facing things they were never meant to understand.Some of the dead return because someone called them back. Others refuse to rest because the living have disturbed them. And sometimes, what comes back was never the person buried in the first place.Featuring restless spirits, ancient undead creatures, dark family secrets, and the terrible price of refusing to let go, Among the Dead explores the boundary between the living and the dead-and what happens when that boundary begins to fail.Thirteen stories. Thirteen encounters with death and what waits beyond it.Because sometimes the dead are the least frightening things in the grave.Book Three of the There Be Monsters horror anthology series by T. P. Grimbard. Each volume can be enjoyed independently.