The Malevolent Ghost of Charlie Chance

The Ozark Hills Academy - a rustic boarding school - sits atop a beautiful hill in the back country of Northwest Arkansas, and serves the region's disadvantaged, 13 to 19 year old boys. The area had once been owned by the long dead, Charlie Chance - known hater of children and progress. During each Devil's Darkness - the convergence of the dark of the moon and a strong, warm, southerly breeze - the Ghost of old Charlie selects a student and sucks his soul from his being, leaving him dead and bereft of an afterlife.Author, Marc Miller, hoping to write Charlie's story, arrives to investigate. The Ghost appears and raises havoc in an apparent attempt to get the writer to leave. It becomes a 'good ghost' - 'bad ghost' quandary for Marc and the young people who offer help.