The Man in the Statue
(2026)(The first book in the Horror After Midnight series)
A novel by John Netti
The statue in Jacobi Park has stood for nearly a century.
This summer, it moves.
When Cedar Creek’s gentle groundskeeper goes mad in broad daylight, screaming that the Civil War statue grabbed him, Officer Mike Havlicek dismisses it as heatstroke… or worse, a broken mind.
Until an eleven-year-old boy swears he saw the granite soldier bend from its pedestal.
Mike is a seasoned cop. A war veteran. A widower barely holding himself together. He doesn’t believe in ghosts.
But when the statue turns its stone face toward him — when metal becomes flesh and hate fills its eyes — denial is no longer possible.
Now children are afraid to sleep. A boy is being watched. And something that once stood silent over Cedar Creek has stepped down.
Some monuments honor the past.
Others are waiting to finish it.
Genre: Mystery
This summer, it moves.
When Cedar Creek’s gentle groundskeeper goes mad in broad daylight, screaming that the Civil War statue grabbed him, Officer Mike Havlicek dismisses it as heatstroke… or worse, a broken mind.
Until an eleven-year-old boy swears he saw the granite soldier bend from its pedestal.
Mike is a seasoned cop. A war veteran. A widower barely holding himself together. He doesn’t believe in ghosts.
But when the statue turns its stone face toward him — when metal becomes flesh and hate fills its eyes — denial is no longer possible.
Now children are afraid to sleep. A boy is being watched. And something that once stood silent over Cedar Creek has stepped down.
Some monuments honor the past.
Others are waiting to finish it.
Genre: Mystery
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