title: American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction
author:  Dale Bailey 
description: Dale Bailey teaches at the University of Tennessee. His short fiction, nominated for the Nebula Award by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction, and elsewhere.
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  The Arrangement
  
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  H.M. Ward
  
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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and
  any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is
  entirely coincidental.
  
    
  
  Copyright © 2013 by H.M. Ward
  
  All rights reserved.
  
    
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in
  
  any printed or electronic form.
  
    
  
  Laree Bailey Press
  
  First Edition: Jan 2013
  
    
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
  The Arrangement
  
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  CHAPTER 1
  
    
    
  
  The night air is frigid. It doesn’t help that I’m stuck wearing this little
  black dress in my crap car. I shiver as I try to keep the engine running at a
  red light. My little battered car is from two decades ago and stalls if I
  don’t rev the engine while I have 