Not the usual summer job encounters
22. House of Bones – Graham Masterton
Those wacky Druids. That’s essentially the bones, pun intended, of this story. Well, the wood and bones. John gets a job after school has ended in an estate agency that’s owned by one super old, super weird dude named Mr. Vane. He has a list of properties that only he handles and one day, while John is left alone and everyone else gets lunch, some dude comes in all “the customer is always right” and gets John to give him the keys to a Mr. Vane property. It’s John’s first day, so he doesn’t know that’s absolutely not acceptable to do. Entitled dude never comes back after John tells his slightly younger than the scary one boss and John and his fellow younger folks in the office see fit to investigate a little. They find things like a really realistic wooden statue and a skull embedded in a wall and that the police found a room full of skeletons in one of Mr. Vane’s properties. Later, through the help of one former anthropology professor, they also find out all Mr. Vane’s houses are on ley lines – it’s Druids’ favorite way to move things, like giant stones to make cool henges and/or souls throughout the vastness of time.

Hen Wen and Salem know how to relax even with a house built on a ley line.

See, they’ve had a Druid infestation before. Ley lines.
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