In the Dark: A PsyCop Short (PsyCop 6.1)

Halloween is fun...at least, it's supposed to be. Costumes, candy, trick-or-treat, even jaded Victor Bayne can get behind those sorts of antics. Too bad this year's Halloween is a grownup event. Not only must Vic don a suit and endure a disco-obsessed DJ, he's got to mingle with friends of Jacob's he would much rather ignore.

Vic thinks he has the party's host all figured out—but as he so often realizes, once he looks beneath the surface, things are seldom what they seem.
(short story, 8000 words)