The first is W. Glenn Duncan’s Rafferty’s Rules:
Rafferty
ain’t in the revenge business.
So
when he gets told to gun down the low-lifes who kidnapped Vivian Mollison and
put her into a drug-induced twilight zone, it’s no can do.
No
matter how much money Vivian’s mother is willing to throw at him.
But
stirring up trouble amongst five outlaw bikers who picked on the wrong girl?
Now
that’s more like it.
Next is Three
on a Light, by Victor Gischler:
Detective
Dean Murphy isn’t your normal shamus. Because of a cursed Zippo lighter, Dean
finds himself taking cases involving werewolves, witches, vampires and other
things that go bump in the night. A fun, pulpy mashup of the detective and dark
fantasy genres. A novel of linked short stories, all of Dean Murphy’s
supernatural adventures. A good selection for those who enjoyed Gischler’s
VAMPIRE A GO-GO.
A
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Three On A Light represents my first efforts as a student
in creative writing at the University of West Florida. It’s being offered to
readers as an example of my early work and to tide readers over until my next
novel comes out. I’d like to dedicate it to my former professors Dr. Carlos
Dews and the late Laurie O'Brien.
The final
is Jonathan Janz’s Witching Hour Theatre:
On
a cool October night at the Starlight Cinema, an all-night horror movie triple
feature is about to begin: Witching Hour Theatre. It’s the one exciting thing
in Larry Wilson’s life, not counting the lovely brunette who works the
concession stand. Settling in, he loses himself in the atmosphere of the old
place: the crowd, the screams, the popcorn and the blood.
But
when the second feature ends, only thirteen moviegoers remain. Among them, a
woman of nineteen with a fondness for piercings and the macabre, a cop and his
wife, a trio of bad-tempered bullies, and a solitary figure sitting silently in
the shadows of the back row.
On
this endless October night, Witching Hour Theatre will become Larry’s worst
nightmare. For the movie on the screen is growing stranger by the minute. His
fellow theatergoers are disappearing one by one.
And
the figure from the shadows is advancing.
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