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Beware the Darkest Dark of Night

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A nearly-packed plane en route to Atlanta, departing several hours late from Denver, takes to the skies in the wee hours of a cloudy night with a passenger list ranging from the merely-inconvenienced and tired to the openly-disgruntled and testy.  It will soon turn into a flight like none of them has ever experienced.. . nor even dreamt of in a nightmare, for that matter. The switch from the rocking evening shift to the easy-listening, night-owls-only one is currently in progress at KMRT, a tiny radio station in small-town Jesman’s Bend, Colorado.  Those loneliest hours of the night before dawn are about to become a whole lot lonelier.   A handsome--albeit somehow “off”--young man, gloating over the fact that his identity as the city’s infamous killer, the “Mummy-Man”, is still unknown, gains entry into the home of his latest, soon-to-be-very-unlucky victim.  Unbeknownst to the killer, he will shortly be getting more--and less--than that for which he bargained. A middle-aged widow--wh