The Ghost's Woods, a vast expanse of untamed forest and swampland straddling the borders of Poe and Bennick Counties. The woods were known for being the Evil Place long before the first explorers came from Europe. Deep in the forest strange voices sometimes whispered dark secrets to those who could hear them, and a creature nearly as old as mankind roamed among the trees, watching, and occasionally claiming a victim of its own choosing. With the tragedy that followed the founding of the small city of Ariana, Florida, the woods received their name. They had long been forgotten as being the Evil Place, but the passage of time only proved they were a haunted place, the home of something cunning and malevolent that was waiting to strike Here is the history of how the Ghost's Woods became a legend. The short story prologue to Michael C. Laney's forthcoming Shadows Of The Night Series