Showing posts with label Delirium Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Delirium Books. Show all posts

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Live Event | Lee Thompson

There are some exciting things happening tonight on the Darkfuse website. Lee Thompson - one of my favorite authors - will be doing a live interview.

You can read all of my Lee Thompson gushings here.

The folks at Darkfuse will be giving one lucky winner a 1-year subscription to the Delirium Kindle Club. That's 24 novellas! They are also giving away some Lee Thompson limited edition hardcovers. Those are some wicked sweet prizes.

The event starts tonight at 8 CST/9 EST. Come hang out with me!

Jennifer

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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Review: Apartment Seven by Greg F. Gifune

Apartment Seven is a new novella from Greg F. Gifune.

Book Description

It's Christmastime in the city, but all is not merry. Something is happening in Apartment Seven. Something evil.

Charlie Cerrone thought he had it all—a loving marriage, a good job, a nice home and financial security—until the night his wife betrayed him and his entire world came crashing down.

Angry and confused, Charlie wanders the streets of Boston after dark, dazed and searching for answers, trying to figure out why his wife has apparently taken up with another man and why she's been frequenting a strangely ominous and otherwise abandoned building late at night in one of the worst neighborhoods in the city.

Throughout the cold winter night, Charlie descends deeper and deeper into a nightmarish journey that encompasses his past, present and future, a terrifying and surreal odyssey that leads him through the darkest alleys and most dangerous streets of a haunted city, and that will eventually put him face-to-face with the horrific riddle behind his own troubled existence and the shocking mysteries of Apartment Seven.

After enjoying Greg F. Gifune's Dreams the Ragman earlier this year, I was looking forward to his release of Apartment Seven. I have a tendency to avoid book descriptions when I already know I want to read the book so I was pleasantly surprised to find Apartment Seven is a Christmas story. A dark, dark Christmas story.

Clearly inspired by Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Gifune takes us on a journey of regret and redemption.

If you are looking for a great seasonal read, grab yourself a copy of Apartment Seven and wait for a cold, dark night between now and Christmas to cozy up tight and give it a read.

7/10: Recommended Read

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Jennifer

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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Review: Iron Butterflies Rust by Lee Thompson

A new Lee Thompson! Iron Butterflies Rust was released last week as part of the awesome novella series from Delirium Books.

Book Description:
Three years after Frank Gunn's wife pulled his service pistol at the local carnival and set events in motion that stained everyone involved with an eight-year-old boy's blood, Frank's life has fallen apart around him—he is on voluntary leave from the police department, the media has made him look like a fool, and his marriage has gone to hell. Worst of all, the boy, Jeremy Chambers, lies in a coma and Frank is the only person who feels a responsibility to visit him.

Haunted by nightmares that increasingly bleed into his waking life, Frank finds himself once more on a collision course with the boy's murderous father, not to mention a phantom he feels he should somehow know. Whether this trail of blood and tears will redeem him, or end in his damnation, Frank cannot know until the last mile has been traveled.

Lee Thompson has this great way of pulling the reader in and out of darkness. I love that about his writing.  Not only does he write about supernatural darkness, he also delves into the darkness of human emotion. Thompson's characters are often flawed (in a great way) and filled with something gritty and raw.

Iron Butterflies Rust explores what happens when tragedy strikes.  Lives and relationships often fall apart, but sometimes the darkness manifests. 

I really can't get enough of Lee Thompson's fiction.  I recommend Iron Butterflies Rust not only to those who like dark fantasy and suspense, but to those who enjoy an authentic tale.

Other Lee Thompson reviews here at Book Den:
Crooked Stick Figures
Before Leonora Wakes
Nursery Rhymes 4 Dead Children

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Jennifer

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Friday, August 5, 2011

Book Review: Nursery Rhymes 4 Dead Children by Lee Thompson

My favorite writers are the truly imaginative ones.  Earlier this year I declared Lee Thompson as a "must read" favorite author.  Nursery Rhymes 4 Dead Children is no exception to his imagination.

Book Description
In the hills of Pennsylvania, phantoms from the past mingle with those of the present, all swirling in a dark maelstrom over Division. Haunted by the part he played in his brother Mark’s death, John McDonnell takes a midnight hike and stumbles across four dead girls upon the forest floor. Their severed limbs spell Repent. The coroner finds Mark’s onyx skeleton key inside one of the victims, right where her heart used to be. The last time John had seen the key it was clasped in his brother’s hand before they lowered him into his grave.

Torn between protecting his family’s name and giving the girls a proper burial, John digs into Division’s past. As lives shatter around them, and a strange woman tries to steal the key, John and his best friend, Michael Johnston, must find the tools to set things right or break beneath the pressure of these ghosts’ sudden weight.

Nursery Rhymes 4 Dead Children is Thompson's debut novel.  It's a horror mystery full of both human and supernatural evil as well as friendship, love, and loss.  Mix that together with Thompson's imagination and you get quite a vivid tale.

I really enjoyed Nursery Rhymes 4 Dead Children; I can't wait for Thompson to revisit the characters and the town of Division in the future.  Even with the strong conclusion of Nursery Rhymes 4 Dead Children, there is a lot left to be explored.

If you haven't checked out Lee Thompson yet, visit my reviews of Crooked Stick Figures and Before Leonora Wakes and grab yourself a copy of Nursery Rhymes 4 Dead Children.  You are sure to become a fan.

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Jennifer

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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Book Review: Fangboy by Jeff Strand

Fangboy is a "bizarre yet heartwarming" bedtime story from the mind of Jeff Strand.

Book Description
Nathan Pepper seemed like an ordinary baby…except for a mouth full of scary sharp teeth. Because his life began with his grandmother strongly recommending that he be destroyed as soon as possible, it’s safe to say that Nathan was not destined for a typical existence.

He hated the nickname “Fangboy,” but nobody could deny that he was the most frightening little boy in town. And he would have adventures of every sort. Tragic adventures, like what happened to his parents. Dangerous adventures, like his encounter with the sinister Professor Mongrel. Thrilling adventures, like the part where he’s on an out-of-control horse and he can’t make it stop running and you think “Well, he should just jump off,” but he CAN’T because it’s going too fast and he could break a leg. And, yes, one particularly gruesome adventure, though it is not described in great detail.

Will things end happily for Nathan? Will he bite somebody? Gather your family and your most deranged friends, make some chocolate chip cookies, and share the dark comedy treat of FANGBOY, a bizarre yet heartwarming yet rather tasteless saga that—all ego aside—will define a generation.
Poor little Nathan Pepper was born with a mouth full of razor sharp teeth.  Despite being a freak whom everyone feared, his parents loved him dearly.  The night before Nathan turned six years old, both of his parents died from an accidental poisoning.  This was the first of many horrible events Nathan would endure.

Jeff Strand made Nathan's character so lovable, I longed to adopt him and raise him myself.  Instead, I was left to witness Nathan's tragic encounters with a world that judged him based on his looks.

The humor and positive outlook throughout Fangboy made this dark fairy tale uplifting.  If you love a dark comedy or enjoy bizarre stories, do yourself a favor and read Fangboy.  Nathan Pepper is a character I won't soon forget.

Do you have a favorite dark fairy tale?

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Jennifer

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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Review: Dreams the Ragman by Greg F. Gifune

Dreams the Ragman by Greg F. Gifune is another great novella from Delirium Books.

Book Description
As a young boy Derrick listened to his grandfather’s spooky tales of “The Ragman,” an old junk dealer and boogieman of sorts to the children in the neighborhood who he claimed had followed him throughout his entire life and stalked him from the depths of his own worst nightmares. But as an alcoholic ravaged with senility, his grandfather’s stories were dismissed as delusions.

When years later, murder comes to Derrick’s small hometown, he and his best friend Caleb—both teenage outcasts—discover that the killer is a hobo dressed in rags who rides the rails in and out of town when committing his crimes. They dub him “The Ragman” unaware of just how accurate that nickname may be, but the murders are never solved.

As time passes, Derrick weds and settles into a troubled marriage while Caleb moves to New York City and spirals into drug addiction and madness. Thirty years later, in a dying seaside resort town, the killings have begun again. Has The Ragman returned, or is something even more sinister taking place?

As Derrick and Caleb meet at the scene of the latest grisly murders, they soon find themselves confronted with an unsolved mystery that has haunted them for decades and an eternal evil they may never be able to escape. The rain falls, darkness descends, a train’s whistle blows, and the Ragman begins to dream…

Dreams the Ragman chronicles Derrick's lifetime struggle with the mysterious and evil ragman.  As a boy, the ragman came for his grandfather.  As a teenager, his best friend Caleb.  When Derrick begins investigating brutal murders that appear all too familiar, will the ragman come for him, too?

I loved the atmospheric and creepy tone of Dreams the Ragman.  I found myself engrossed in the suspense and mystery of the ragman.  There were times I wished the terror I felt would play out a little longer, but the build up and tension made for a fantastic read.

Greg F. Gifune has two novellas in Delirium's 2011 novella series: Dreams the Ragman with an April 2011 release date and Apartment Seven with a September 2011 release date.  I will definitely be checking out his next release.


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Jennifer

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Monday, April 11, 2011

Review: Beyond the Door by Jeffrey Thomas

Beyond the Door is the next release in the Delirium 2011 Novella Series.

Book Description
Two strangers meet in a train station, and begin swapping stories—stories that eerily interweave, and grow more and more disturbing and bizarre. The headless undead, a gruesome flea circus, flesh-eating insects, and a menacing house that won’t stay put. These are just some of the tales that will reveal as much about the teller as they do the mysteries behind that frayed curtain we call reality.

When Ware mistakenly opens an occupied stall door in a train station restroom, he's quick to show his annoyance by telling the stranger, "Where I come from, people lock the toilet stall door."

The stranger retorts, "Well, where I come from, people knock on the door before they open it."

The replies continue in this manner until the reader is figuratively sitting around a campfire listening to bizarre town stories of ghost train rides, traveling carnivals, and legendary citizens. The stories between Ware and the stranger last through the night and build to a story as eerie and atmospheric as Dracula picking off the seamen of the Demeter one by one.
BEYOND THE DOOR is a story about how we connect with one another through storytelling—and tantalize ourselves with the unknown.
If you love reading or sharing ghost stories, urban legends, or strange tales, you will love reading Beyond the Door. Highly recommended!


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