Payment Of A Field Guard

THERE'S A MURDER DOWN THERE!
Keith Garland is jolted to life and finds his respite assaulted by a horrible-looking old woman who has come to seek his protection from a murderer. Following her to her home though, he's made to find that a murder has several meanings and each of them are as black and horrifying as stormy nights and death as terrible as the devil.
A novelette of horror written in the spirit of Sam Hain.