author of something wicked this way comes

What is doing this is not of this world, I really loved the the whole alien take to this tale. What could possible go wrong? A storm hits halfway across the lake and people start dying, the only remains left behind are their skins devoid of fluids or bones. Who will survive the crossing when Something Wicked This Way Comes?Īll aboard the steamer Orion, tasked with taking archaeological crates across Lake Erie, along side a handful of passengers. They must do what they can to stay alive.

Their only hope is to scuttle the ship in the deepest part of the lake and try to survive in lifeboats, but that part of the lake is still two hours away. Now, in a growing storm, alone in the middle of the lake, people are turning up dead. And what no one knows, not even the university team, is that something in those crates is still alive. The crates in the cargo area hold the remains of the ship. But what few people on the ship know is what was initially thought to be a meteorite crash turned out to be an alien craft. Desperately needing money, and with prospects of no fares at his other stops, Jericho reluctantly agrees when Ross finally offers him triple the fare he will take Ross and his cargo on the nonstop 14-hour trek across the lake. Jericho becomes suspicious when Ross refuses to divulge the contents of his cargo and the haste in which he wants to cross. He is quite anxious to get his find back to the university for study and is willing to pay Jericho double the fare for his team and cargo to forego the Orion's other ports of call for a straight shot across Lake Erie from Toledo, Ohio to Buffalo, New York. Ross is the team leader of a university archeology dig tasked with retrieving the debris from a meteorite crash in western Ohio. Though the passenger list is small, they have almost a full cargo hold, thanks to William Ross and the university he works for.

But Providence has smiled upon him, or so he thinks. When he finds out from his first mate, Tal MacTavish, that the next passage across Lake Erie has only a few passengers, his hope of ever getting out of debt sinks. He's been steadily losing money to his competitors, the railways. Jericho Mannion is the captain of an old, cash-strapped steamer named the Orion.

Author of something wicked this way comes