Engines, Ectoplasm, and Poor Decisions: BOOK SEVEN (Turn Four After Dark 7)
About
By the time anyone realizes the snack bar is haunted, it’s already too late to pretend this night is manageable.
At Fox Run Speedway, repairs stop being repairs and turn into performances. Engines develop opinions. Tools refuse unfamiliar hands. Helpful suggestions attract commentary instead of cooperation, and the longer people try to fix things, the worse everything behaves. Nothing is broken exactly. Everything is wrong anyway.
Food becomes leverage without anyone agreeing it should. Repairs draw audiences that do not leave. Ghosts interfere creatively and unhelpfully, offering opinions instead of assistance. The track does not step in. It watches.
Midnight makes it worse.
Boundaries soften. Confidence spikes. Experimentation increases. Decisions that should have waited feel urgent, reasonable, and absolutely necessary in the moment. By the time doubt returns, consequences are already stacking up faster than anyone can respond.
Engines, Ectoplasm, and Poor Decisions is a spooky, funny Southern Gothic comedy about what happens when systems are mixed instead of respected. It’s about effort that doesn’t earn permission, familiarity that can’t be borrowed, and places that notice when they’re handled carelessly.
Nothing explodes.
Nothing resolves cleanly.
Everything reacts.
This is not a story about fixing the problem.
It’s about creating several new ones by accident.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE THIS BOOK
- It’s funny in exactly the wrong moments — humor shows up under pressure, not to save the situation, but to survive it
- The setting behaves like a character — the track doesn’t explain itself or negotiate; it responds
- The supernatural is disruptive, not heroic — ghosts interfere with commentary, timing, and opinions, not solutions
- Midnight matters — fatigue and confidence collide in ways that feel uncomfortably familiar
- Consequences stick — nothing resets, and effort does not guarantee improvement
- You can start here — this book stands completely on its own, no series knowledge required
WHAT YOU’LL FIND INSIDE
- Haunted spaces that shouldn’t matter, but do
- Engines and tools with selective cooperation
- Repairs that attract attention instead of progress
- Food quietly reshaping authority
- Boundaries enforced without warning
- A night that keeps notes
This story leans into the kind of chaos that feels realistic to anyone who has ever stayed late, tried harder, or insisted something was “almost fixed” when it clearly wasn’t.
THIS BOOK IS PERFECT FOR READERS WHO ENJOY
- Paranormal comedy with bite
- Southern Gothic atmosphere without melodrama
- Ghosts that argue instead of terrify
- Stories where effort creates problems
- Settings that refuse to stay neutral
If you like your spooky fiction funny, uneasy, and grounded in human overconfidence rather than heroics, this night will feel familiar in all the worst ways.
ABOUT THE SERIES
TURN FOUR AFTER DARK is a spooky-comedy series set at a racetrack that behaves like it has opinions.
Each book is a complete, standalone story.
Each night escalates differently.
Nothing resets cleanly.
You don’t need to start at the beginning.
You don’t need to know the rules.
The night will teach you what matters.
By the end of the night, nothing is fixed, several boundaries are tighter, and everyone has learned the wrong lesson at least once.
If you’ve ever believed effort would be enough…
If you’ve ever tried to help and made it worse…
If you’ve ever stayed up too late and trusted your judgment anyway…
Engines, Ectoplasm, and Poor Decisions is waiting.
Just don’t expect it to cooperate.