title: Night Children : Dark Threats
author:  Scott Bryan 
description: Author of the Night Children series, I love stories about the strange and unusual. Publishing Books about vampire children, writing fantasy and Sci Fi books. Member of the League of Utah Writers. Writing stories for over a decade for friends and associates. Ready to expand my audience.
zlib_text: The Night Children
  
  ALEXANDER GORDON SMITH
  
  illustration by STEVE ARGYLE
  
  Presenting a new Escape from Furnace story, The Night Children, by Alexander
  Gordon Smith.
  
  It is December 1944 and Europe is still gripped by war. In the densely
  forested mountains of Belgium one of the conflicts most brutal battles is
  raging. Cut off from the front, a ragtag group of young British and American
  soldiers finds itself being hunted by a patrol of elite German Special Forces,
  including a newly commissioned officer called Kreuza teenage boy who will
  grow up to become Warden Cross (the fearsome prison director who will one day
  rule Furnace Penitentiary, the terrifying underground prison specially built
  for teen offenders).
  
  As both sides fight for their lives in the unforgiving terrain, however, they
  start to realize that there are worse things hiding in the snow than soldiers.
  There are creatures out there with gas masks and piggy eyes (ancestors of
  Furnace prisons wheezers)demonic entities t