FROM THE EDITOR

When denied justice in life, the dead may return to seek it once again.

When Jake Porter brings his mother to live at the Glastenbury Mountain Rest Home, he is unaware of its past as a tuberculosis sanatorium. However, the home's past is all too clear to some of the current residents, who report strange sights and noises, but it's easy for the staff to dismiss their reports; the very old often suffer from dementia.

Taking time to settle his mother in properly, Jake begins to hear stories from other residents, and even the home's director. Embarrassed by some of the second-rate reality tv series he's produced in the past, Jake senses a chance to tell a real story: one of disease, racism, and a hospital whose most notable feature is a "death chute." The devil is in the details, but will he survive to find them?

The Death Chute is a chilling story of man's inhumanity to man within a timeless ghost story. It calls into question the idea that the end justifies the means and the very current debate over whether some lives are worth more than others.

The Death Chute is "...creepy and emotional and just all around fantastic." — Sci-Fi & Scary

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