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Between the Ticks

Between the Ticks

Harvey, Savannah
Orta, Decrea

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798272486547
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 1 2025
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Summary:

The story of Henry Graves, a master horologist in Bath, who is driven to madness by the incessant ticking of the clocks in his father's workshop. Haunted by the constant rhythm and the perceived voices within the clocks, Henry increasingly despises time itself. He confesses to murdering his father, Edwin Graves, by sabotaging a prized black walnut clock, a crime he believed would silence the oppressive ticking. However, the ticking only intensified, leading him to systematically destroy every clock in the shop, yet the sound persists and grows louder. A mysterious gentleman customer, seemingly aware of Henry's torment, leaves him a cryptic coin with the inscription Between the ticks, eternity waits. Driven by the promise of ultimate silence, Henry impales himself with a chisel, believing he has found eternal peace. Years later, a collector, fascinated by the legend of Henry Graves, acquires the black walnut clock. Despite its initial stillness, the clock eventually begins to tick again, and the collector, too, starts to hear voices and experience the same maddening rhythm. He discovers a hidden mechanism within the clock and, upon opening it, releases Henry Graves, who then passes on the role of Keeper to the new owner. The story concludes with the collector becoming the new victim of the clock's eternal rhythm, trapped in the same cycle of madness and time, while the black walnut clock continues its silent vigil in a museum, occasionally stirring to ensnare a new Keeper.

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