Angel of the Abyss
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Many heartfelt thanks to Greg F. Gifune and all the gang at DarkFuse. Angel of the Abyss could not have found a better home nor better support. Thanks also to Todd Robinson, Steve Weddle, Ron Earl Phillips, David Cranmer, Liam José, Andrew Nette, Cameron Ashley, Jon Bassoff, Tom Pitts, Joe Clifford, and everyone else who has supported my fiction — short, long, and in between — along my way to becoming a crime writer.
I was in the lab, working on a digital scan of an obscure Monogram musical from the mid-thirties, when the call came in. Freddie Garcia, one of the interns, poked his head through a crack in the door and said, “Phone for you.”
I left the print running through the scanner and followed Freddie out to the front office. The receiver was sitting on a mess of papers. I picked it up.
“This is Graham Woodard.”
“Mr. Woodard,” came back an unfamiliar voice, “my name is Leslie Wheeler — with the Silent Film Appreciation Society?”