Demon Drink - Ashton, Kris

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Résumé :
A night out becomes a nightmare in this dark supernatural novel that blends demonic possession, occult rituals, and the chilling consequences of temptation. Times are tough in Black Wattle. Drought and forest fires have ravaged the town and its lifeblood, tourism, is on the wane. Nobody is feeling the pinch more than divorcee Shirley Goodsall, who is trying to keep the historic Ironstone Hotel afloat while quelling animosity between her ex-husband and their teenage daughter. So when the business manager for a microbrewery, Damon Prince, offers her a promotional deal that includes free kegs of beer, it's a deal that seems too good to be true. And it is. Shirley's elation soon turns to horror as she discovers she has unwittingly helped Prince unleash dark forces in her town. Black Wattle's residents are plunged into a nightmare of infection and blood-curdling transformations. Shirley and a handful of survivors band together to try to foil Prince's fiendish plot, but Prince is no ordinary man. He will stare into their souls and turn their most shameful personal demons against them... Fans of Stephen King's earlier novels such as 'Salem's Lot and Needful Things will revel in every ghastly, page-turning detail of Demon Drink, a master class in small-town horror from Australian Shadows Award Winner, Kris Ashton. Can you handle your drink? Click the link to find out! Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Where Stories Come Alive!...

Biographie:
Award-winning writer and editor Kris Ashton has published several novels and nearly fifty short stories. He is best known for his tales of horror and dark speculative fiction and is also a noted essayist, taking out the Australian Shadows Award for non-fiction in 2023.Kris graduated from Western Sydney University in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in creative writing and literature. He has had a 25-year career as a journalist and is currently editor of Open Road, one of the most widely-read magazines in Australia.He lives in the wilds of south-western Sydney with his wife, two children and a crippling mortgage....

Sommaire:

A night out becomes a nightmare in this dark supernatural novel that blends demonic possession, occult rituals, and the chilling consequences of temptation.

Times are tough in Black Wattle. Drought and forest fires have ravaged the town and its lifeblood, tourism, is on the wane. Nobody is feeling the pinch more than divorcee Shirley Goodsall, who is trying to keep the historic Ironstone Hotel afloat while quelling animosity between her ex-husband and their teenage daughter. So when the business manager for a microbrewery, Damon Prince, offers her a promotional deal that includes free kegs of beer, it's a deal that seems too good to be true.

And it is. Shirley's elation soon turns to horror as she discovers she has unwittingly helped Prince unleash dark forces in her town. Black Wattle's residents are plunged into a nightmare of infection and blood-curdling transformations. Shirley and a handful of survivors band together to try to foil Prince's fiendish plot, but Prince is no ordinary man. He will stare into their souls and turn their most shameful personal demons against them...

Fans of Stephen King's earlier novels such as 'Salem's Lot and Needful Things will revel in every ghastly, page-turning detail of Demon Drink, a master class in small-town horror from Australian Shadows Award Winner, Kris Ashton.

Can you handle your drink? Click the link to find out!

Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Where Stories Come Alive!