A January blizzard causes havoc in the small town of Frozentoe, Pennsylvania. Best friends, Joey Redd and Kel Foxford, become stranded in the wicked storm and check in at the strangest bed and breakfast ever, The Foreboding Castle. Joey meets a diverse lot of guests at the castle: Vivian Vampe, a famous B-rated Hollywood actress; the bizarre Colonel MacCarmichael and his male pet, Dash Hound; and the sexy stud and adult entertainment star, Magnum Ride.<br><br>When Kel takes a fancy to Magnum and the two vanish into a nearby bedroom to keep warm together, Joey is left to his own devices. In due time he learns of the castle's ghosts and secret passageways. He also begins to melt for the castle's owner, the handsome and alluring Bar Moore.<br><br>But Joey’s attraction and heated feelings for Bar come on far too strong and quick. Will these strong emotions leave him with a broken heart? Or will he give his heart to Bar? Can their sudden relationship survive the terrorizing blizzard?

Snowed In: Bar and Joey

But the castle isreal. Everything about it. Including the basketball-size lion head doorknockers on the massive, wooden, and arched medieval doors.


It’s Kel who bangs the icy-golden semi-circle hanging out of one the lions’ mouths. Nothing sounds, though, because of the snowstorm around us, deadening the noise. So what does he do? Appropriately, he bangs the doorknocker again, maybe a half dozen times, maybe a dozen or more. Lots.


Kel bangs the doorknocker five more times, impatient and freezing his so-called steelballs off. Just as he’s about to bang the knocker a sixth time, the right door opens, yellow light pushes out, and Slender Man appears. I’m talking almost eight feet tall, pitted face, long chin, and all bones from feet to head. Scary as shit. Haunting. A child’s worst dreams come true.


Chapter 3