Richard Savin

The Haunting of the Harlequin Goat Richard Savin

Don Loreto is convinced he is being haunted; bizarre phantoms are reaching out from the depths of his past and Don Loreto is scared. In the office of psychiatrist Lydia Kroll he tells of visitations by an old time carnival act: a small girl, a scarecrow and a harlequin goat. Lydia does not sign up to ghosts, she believes these phantoms are nothing more than hallucinations, the manifestations of a traumatic event in his childhood. As she digs into Loreto's dark past it seems to confirm her theory of post traumatic stress disorder; but then strange and unsettling things begin to happen, things that challenge her most deeply held beliefs. Now Lydia is forced to rethink her diagnosis.