"The Creature in the Fog" (also "The Creature From the Fog") is a short horror story by American author Ron Shiflet.
Synopsis[]
A man travels to visit relatives in the countryside where he finds that a recurrent nightmare may have been more of a premonition than a dream, and that his apparently mad old uncle was likely saner than any had ever suspected.
Characters[]
- The Narrator, a city man on holiday in West Virginia.
- Roger, the narrator's brother.
- Hoyt Thompson, the narrator's now-deceased uncle.
- Elvira Higgins, the lover of Hoyt, a suspected witch, also deceased.
Publication History[]
"The Creature From the Fog" was first published in Dark Legacy #6 in April 2000, and again in Nightscapes in August 2001.