Blood on the Boardwalk: A Nightshade Station Short Story

by Justin Bienvenue

A creature of folklore on the prowl. An open-minded detective investigating the bizarre reports. It’s just mass hysteria because monsters aren’t real..right?

Five months ago, Atlantic City Detective Declan Coville experienced a strange encounter on the world-famous boardwalk. Now, it’s been given to him as an assignment to look into. He’s intrigued to discover what lurks in the mysterious shadows and darkness along the pier.

A legendary cryptid that frequents the Pine Barrens region has traveled a bit out of its jurisdiction. It’s supposedly been heard and even seen by many people who run from it in complete terror. Can Detective Coville stop the creature’s reckoning rampage, or will he become its latest victim?

Blood on the Boardwalk is a complimentary short story to the novel Nightshade Station. If you like reading about monster folklore, cryptids, crime mixed with gruesome horror, and intriguing suspense, then let this short story be your latest menacing read.

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62 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 15, 2025

About the author

Justin Bienvenue is a horror author and poet of 14 books. He has 26 short stories and poems in over 18 anthologies and magazines. His first book, The Macabre Masterpiece: Poems of Horror and Gore, is a 5x #1 most downloaded book for contemporary poetry, 2x #1 most downloaded book for American Poetry, and 1x most downloaded book for Poetry Anthologies. Aside from horror and poetry, he's also written two crime thrillers, three western horror novels and a steampunk novel. He has two other books in the Macabre Masterpiece series and a three-part horror series called The Wax Factory series. His latest novel, High Stakes at the Bonesaw Saloon, is now available.

He has three YouTube series: Mystery Unsolved, which discusses some of the world's most bizarre unsolved mysteries; Mystery Ghost Stories, which discusses some of the most haunting ghost stories; and Mystery Blue Book, which discusses famous UFO and alien abduction cases.

When he's not doing anything book-related, his interests include spending too much time on Twitter, watching films and sports (Football and Baseball), playing video games and board games, and learning about history and Egyptology. He’s a total football nut and knows a lot of useless knowledge. He is certified in UFO Studies and is currently taking a course to become certified in Cryptozoology.

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