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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Horror & ghost stories
GENESIS is a dark fantasy. A beginning of all things in an epic
story called GOD'S CHAIN. GOD'S CHAIN is not a religious story, it
is a classic tale of light against darkness, good against evil. In
his inaugural novel, Nikolaus Baker takes the reader through a
hidden fantasy world that revives an enigma that has endured for
centuries. There is an ancient quest that continues for a hidden
knowledge that brings power, corruption, and death in a dark tale
that originates in the remote Scottish village of Mauchline where
tranquillity is about to change when a freak earthquake hits and
precipitates a dramatic fall in temperature. In the Vatican,
secrecy surrounds an untraceable security breach in the
computerised nerve-centre of papal authority. This has consequences
for the suspect Cardinal Giovanni Dalla Gassa. He believes in the
legendary links to God, each link hidden in different locations and
thought to exhibit magical and powerful properties. Powers that
would tip the cosmic and spiritual balance in favour of the holder.
He must have them all. The mystery thickens with the disappearance
of a senior I.T. systems administrator Michaelangelo and the
torment of his close friend and colleague I.T. expert Francesca
DeRose. Chased for her life, she unknowingly becomes lost inside
the catacombs where the cursed Abaddon Clerics lurk... the
unliving. What links the hub of Catholicism with what was once the
heart of covenanting Scotland? The prophecy. Heed it well. GENESIS
is a dark fantasy wrapped within layers of an enigma, tied up by
networks and packaged in history. Readers will enjoy this
fast-moving action and fascinating twists that Baker describes with
vivacity and invention. Is this really a holy mission to find God
or is it a supernatural grail quest to the grave...
This is the time of the prophecy. A dark fantasy that continues the
search for the link to God inside the Amazon. DEVIL'S TEMPLE, is
not a religious story. It is a dark tale of fate and legend, of
feared words spoken in whispers of power and mystery. A Shaman's
grim forewarnings tell a tale of a Temple that appears every five
hundred years deep inside the jungle, and this is such a year! On
the other side of the world, a civilian expedition becomes lost
inside one of the most unforgiving places on earth, Amazonia. Does
the truth lie within this remorseless rainforest? Suddenly, horror
strikes when a scientist is killed in an act of human sacrifice.
The death toll continues to rise, and nothing makes sense anymore
as friendships stretch to breaking point and religious tensions
begin to tighten. Who or what is killing them? Inside the Temple, a
tapestry of death traps lay waiting. If these don't get them then
horrific life-forms from another world surely will. Would anyone be
found alive to rescue? An enormous creature bursts out from a
turbulent storm above the rainforest, a thing born unto the wing
high in the air featherless, huge and black and completely bare, it
uttered an unearthly high-pitched scream that would make a man
quake. DEATH was the beasts' name. In-flight, the creature opened
to full wingspan wider than an aircraft, as it navigated over this
new landmass with ease and where DEATH flew, death followed...
Excerpt1: "What is going on up there Ale? Who is screaming!" Cesare
asked with growing worry. Macabre events were unfolding and their
eyes were glued to the distance. They could see small silhouettes
crouching and everyone seemed to be holding their ears. Alessandro
and Cesare began to see a small blue spherical energy ball
appearing, and hovering in mid-air. The men guessed that everyone
up there was in great danger, the orb splashed the darkness away
from around it. The thing displayed raw power, swamping a deep
luminous blanket of blue-violet colour over the Temple stone.
Reeling backward involuntarily, both men staggered when a sharp
light flashed powerfully through everyone's bodies on the steps! In
that split-second flash, Alessandro and Cesare could see the
people's transparent bodies and skeletons, silhouetted briefly in a
weird blue light. Both men gasped loudly, when a massive expansion
of pure energy happened, so sudden and so quick. They witnessed
Beppi become engulfed. The power catapulted the helpless man into
the air and held him up high like a blazing star, screaming. "Oh
God! Look!" Cesare called out in grim abhorrence, nobody spared the
grim details of the victim's flesh bubbling; Beppi's body wriggled
and popped like a sausage on a barbeque. Paralysed, everyone
watched helplessly, and nobody could save him. "It's Beppi! It's
got Beppi! It's roasting him alive!" Yelling like a maniac,
Alessandro's own sanity screamed out in disbelief.
USA Today bestseller and rising queen of atmospheric horror Darcy
Coates returns with a ghost story that will haunt you long after
the final page. No one stays here for long... A terrifying piece of
haunted house fiction, The House Next Door is: For people who love
scary books and a ghost storyPerfect for fans of Michael Richan and
Apryl BakerFor readers of Simone St. James books like The Sundown
MotelJosephine began to suspect something was wrong with the
crumbling gothic monstrosity next door when its family fled in the
middle of the night, the children screaming, the mother crying.
They never came back. No family stays at Marwick House for long. No
life lingers beyond its blackened windows. No voices drift from its
ancient halls. Once, Josephine swore she saw a woman's silhouette
pacing through the upstairs room... but that's impossible. No one
had been there in a long, long time. But now someone new has moved
next door, and Marwick House is slowly waking up. Torn between
staying away and warning the new tenant, Josephine only knows that
if she isn't careful, she may be its next victim... More Gothic
Horror Novels By Darcy Coates: The Haunting of Ashburn House The
Haunting of Blackwood House Craven Manor The Carrow Haunt Voices in
the Snow
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