During this often humorous, sometimes ghoulish season, let's take a look
at the many times misunderstood genre of Christian horror.
RABBIT, Chasing Beth Rider by Ellen C. Maze
Beth Rider is the first of the RABBIT Trilogy and
was a finalist in the Grace Awards 2010 Speculative Fiction category. The other
two novels in the trilogy are THE RABBIT LEGACY and LOSE RABBITS of the Rabbit
Trilogy. A recovering vampire/horror fanatic, the author uses her knowledge and
experience in that subculture to bring the Light into the vampire genre.
Addicting and delicious, her brand of story-telling is rife with deep character
study, and honest emotion. Other works by the author include: A VAMPIRE'S
VICTORY, EMMA'S DRAGON, A Fairly Horrible Love Story, and the Corescu
Chronicles.
NIGHT SEA JOURNEY, a Tale of the Supernatural by
Paula Cappa
Everybody dreams—some dream of being lost in eerie
darkness, of being abducted, of being abandoned. When
artist Kip Livingston dreams inside Abasteron House on Horn Island, mysterious
forces invade her mind. She dreams of a shadowy firehawk that drags her
to the sea and transports her beneath the snaking waves. Here, grey figures in
sea-masks haunt. Kip awakes, but she brings back with her pieces from
each nightmare, including a blue-black serpent that slides across the sheets in
her bed. These supernatural elements are fully alive and so threatening, they
drive her into the arms of the sensual Father Raymond Kera. Raymond, a
thoughtful but conflicted priest struggling with his own hauntings, is exiled
by the church to Horn Island. He leaves Chicago and his friend, Garcia the
Prophet, who is not only Raymond’s mentor but also a visionary who knows
firsthand the alternate consciousness of dream power—and the all-consuming
human desires that compel a man to deceit and murder. Are these dreams a
passage to a land of ghosts? A psychic destiny? Or a cosmic path to a truth
that no one, not Ray or Garcia the Prophet, want to believe? And what is this
firehawk? Demon or angel? One thing is certain: Kip is compelled to travel
these dark nights beneath the ghost-grey sea to reach her journey’s end.
Amazon. http://is.gd/Uy5iOT
PRO LUCE HABRE (To Have
Before the Light) Volumes I and II (On the Soul series) by Krisi Keley
For eight hundred years, Valéry
Castellane has known only one kind of light - the light in those human beings
he's had to kill so he might live. The last of these has been the most
brilliant light of all, the light of the one sent to tell him that heaven was
never really lost to him. But did he destroy all hope for it in attempting to
make this angel a human love he could hold forever on earth, or is the mystery
of this vampire's salvation yet to be fully revealed? Sometimes the key which
unlocks the secret of what's to come is hidden in the past. Take another
journey with a vampire, through eight centuries of dark human history which
have, all along, been leading him to the light. The author has also written ON
THE SOUL OF A VAMPIRE, THE LION HUNT, CLAUDE AND JULIETTE, and THE RED BRIDGE
MURDER.
FECKLESS, Tales
of Supernatural, Paranormal, and Downright Presumptuous Ilk (an
anthology, Ellen C. Maze, Teric Darken, Angela Dolbear, Kat Heckenbach,
Elizabeth E. Little, Krisi Kelley, Stu Louden, Keven Maze, Pete Turner, )
These tales range from the extreme,
the paranormal, the supernatural, the fantastic, the spooky, the creepy, the
suspicious, the unpredictably psychopathic, and even the deliciously romantic.
Expect to find vampires, werewolves, demons, monsters, psychopaths and plenty
of feckless victims hankering to be taken advantage of in the worst way. Each
tale features one or more feckless characters; someone who just can't seem to
succeed, someone who never gets it quite right, or just can't catch a break no
matter how hard they try. And yes, they are all horror stories.
WICKFLICKER by Teric Darken
A unique allegorical tale. Terrifying excitement. College
dudes Gat O'Malley and Caleb Jackson go on a wild ride at a college party where
beer is flowing and the Ouija Board is the entertainment. Gat accepts an offer
of power, sex, and money if he joins a prestigious Olde Order. Although Caleb can see the lies and deceipt,
they both get dragged into a frightful web of seduction and darkness. This is a
morally relevant tale for this day and age. This is about college age boys and
there is some language…all what you'd hear on any campus of higher learning.
Amazon. http://is.gd/jqcZkK
THE DEVIL'S CHOIR by Chris Morrow
In Chris Morrow’s debut novel, The Devil’s Choir,
the veil is lifted and we are allowed to look into the shadows, to places where
supernatural good and evil do battle – not for the hearts of men but for blood
and bone – not in some world of imagination but in a very real rural town in
Kansas.
Melanie Elarton is a college student with a unique ability that allows her to
see the thoughts of others. Ari is a man of secrets and a member of an ancient
order established to fight against the evil things of the spirit. They unite to
find a campus serial killer, but in the process, an ancient demonic presence
turns the investigators into the hunted.
Twists and turns abound in this shadowy place. Will Melanie’s psychic gifts or
Ari’s depth of experience be enough to save them and help them unravel the
mystery before more girls are killed? In these shadowy places where there are
no coincidences and there is no such thing as luck, they will have to rely on
courage and cunning if they are to find their way back to the light.
Amazon. http://is.gd/3wpyB0
Barnes & Noble. http://is.gd/mqqtrv
NEW BLOOD by H. G. Ferguson
A pake, cloaked and hooded immigrant with haunting, amber eyes, wanders
into the backcountry of 1755 Pennsylvania. Her name is Rebecca. Her
curse is a rare genetic disorder, responsible for all the world's
legends of the Nosferatu, the Wampyr...the Vampire. Burned by sunlight,
driven by a hellish need to drink human blood, possessing superhuman
strength and sense, Rebecca must live in the shadows, but never in
darkness, for she is a believer in Jesus Christ. Forced to flee her
native Wales, to America, she has journeyed seeking Sanctuary and a new
life where her secret is not known. This new life will bring her many
friends, fiendish enemies and the love of a Mohawk husband when Rebecca
accepts captivity to free a thirteen-year-old colonial girl. But as the
French set La Guerre Sauvage astir in the backcountry with death and
destruction in its wake, threatening everyone Rebecca love, only a
Vampire can stop them, even if she must pay the ultimate price.
Amazon.
http://is.gd/CzON0H
Barnes & Noble.
http://is.gd/qML8Ji
