Ayla Karaka came to the US from Turkey to attend college and seek her way in this vast land of opportunity. She found success as a commercial photographer in New York City and lived a good life, where she was about to assume ownership of the studio where she was employed. She was on an upstate road trip where she discovered a vintage box camera at a flea market. The camera would change her life and provide a portal to other places and times, including her childhood homeland. It became a guilty pleasure, but a visit to Boldt Castle in the Thousand Islands on the St. Lawrence River, where she...

Warren P. Laughlin worked for Wall Street making money for the fat cat financiers trading on the stock exchange. He shared a hobby with his good friend and fellow trader Cecil, frequenting the casinos in Atlantic City to relieve the stress of the job. That was his life for twenty years until Cecil dropped dead of a coronary on the sidewalk outside the exchange while chewing on a greasy hot dog. Looking for a break from the trading madness while satisfying a yearning for adventure, a fondness for the Old West and his love of gaming, made the gambling town of Deadwood City, South Dakota the...

A traveler could not resist his desire to stop at a bait store that he had driven past many times over the years. It was so creepy that he needed to see for himself what the down trodden, old two-story building harbored. Once inside, his intuition told him to leave, but a more than eager proprietor encouraged him to see more of the building and additional displays of the curious animal heads found mounted on the walls in the front of the store. Something wasn't right and his instincts cried out for him to run, but his curiosity for the unknown led him to the darkness and unspeakable horror.