Stephen E Crockett
ASIN: B007YK038I
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 322
"The Dark Man," is based on circumstances that played out on a farm in Advance, North Carolina, from the early 1930's to present day. By the time this book was written, no less than fifteen people had mysteriously lost their lives on this particular farm with the latest being its current owner who died in a suspicious fire that consumed one of its barns with him in it. This latest victim was Scott Clemmons and the particulars of his life are well known to those living in the surrounding community. The facts are anything but pretty. Scott was abused at an early age by a violent alcoholic father who murdered his mother in front of him. The stress was parlayed into his own paranoia and increasing insanity and there is ample evidence to suggest that Scott murdered his father to avenge his mother's death. He attempted to make the farm his own but instead found that he was having to protect ...