MAELSTROM AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER - WIN A GUITAR!
Yep, you heard me. My novel MAELSTROM is now available for pre-order from Full Moon Press. 
If you click on the cover art you can pre-order at THE HORROR MALL where you won’t be charged a penny until they have the book in hand. If you pre-order, you’ll be entered in a contest to win a guitar decorated by Alex McVey, the cover artist, and signed by all the fictional members of the band, MAELSTROM. The Mall also features Layaway…just saying.
I have a page up here on the site that talks about the writing and history of this novel, and there is also an excerpt available - all of Chapter One. I’m pretty proud of this book. It’s a return to straight horror novels for me.
Something in Lavender, California is waking up. Rituals not properly completed for centuries are coming together. Nothing is what it seems.
When Nick Leatherman, his girlfriend Ruthie, and their buddies Flash and Weasel invade Shady Grove Cemetery for a “ghost hunt” on their way home from a concert, they are drawn into a web of darkness and intrigue that threatens to consume them. Nick and Ruthie witness a gruesome murder, and Nick’s pocketknife shows up at the crime scene the next morning. Nick has had problems in the past, and Inspector Kendall Straker remembers. He remembers Ned Leatherman, Nick’s alcoholic step-father as well, and he doesn’t believe the boy is a killer. The problem is that the knife - emblazoned with the name of the band Maelstrom - is the only clue he has.
Horace Goldbough is the local pastor. He’s built a huge following and a beautiful church, but there are things about the good reverend that the town doesn’t know. In particular there is his relationship with a dark woman named Beauchane, and a certain book he keeps hidden from the world.
With local reporters, and a television talk-show host hounding his every step, Straker attempts to unravel the series of grisly killings terrorizing Lavender, while simultaneously protecting Nick. Nick, in the meantime, has begun his own investigation, feeling trapped and needing to clear his name.
Ritual words are being spoken, and a power that has been denied access to the Earth for centuries is poised to strike. The clock is ticking. Can Straker, Nick, and Maelstrom find the answer to the killings and put an end to them before the final ritual takes place, or will a horror be unleashed on the unsuspecting town of Lavender beyond their comprehension?
04/25/08, 8:34 PM |
It’s a really good read. Buy it. –Janet
04/25/08, 8:45 PM |
Thank you Janet…that means a lot…particularly from such a talented source.
04/26/08, 11:21 AM |
That’s a nice cover. It might even make the drivel within more tolerable.
((ducking and running!))
12/29/08, 11:13 AM |
For several years now I have been an avid reader of Graham Masterton , his book the chosen child left a huge impression on me but David you have knocked him off that perch with your book, well done