Old pawn shops, forgotten boxes tucked into attic corners, faces staring silently from the photo frames of time… certain objects seem to whisper more distinctly than others of the strange tales that have marked their journeys from one place and time to another. In “Age Shall Be Responsible,” the fifth short story in my new collection The Knife and the Wound It Deals, a moldering old trunk in a Hollywood Golden Era apartment building long past its prime contains a secret just waiting to emerge from the dusty vaults of history and find a modern day counterpart to complete its terrible past...

To read more about "Age Will Be Responsible" and the twelve other strange and fantastic tales in my new collection The Knife and the Wound It Deals, visit my web site at http://www.bescully.com/2012/10/age-w...