SHORT STORY of WARD COURIER: "The Ho-Ho Killers"

From the story collection "A Ghosthunter's Journal" (1999) by Ward Courier under the pen name Mason Winfield

[I fled him, down the nights and down the days;

I fled him, down the arches of the years...

- Francis Thompson, "The Hound of Heaven"]

[The narrator of one of Poe's oddest tales relaxes in a busy city and studies the throngs around him. He decides to kill a little time by following a ...