Spooky season is upon us. And with it comes a plethora of horrific tales to get us in the mood. Some readers might shy away from gruesome and frightening plots. However, Candace Nola offers a collection of short stories for readers who want to dip their toes in and explore what the horror genre has… Continue reading Demons in My Bloodstream by Candace Nola
In 1961 New Orleans, Eve is a young woman who was raised in a nunnery after becoming an orphan at a young age. A priest in training, Peter, and she have become close friends since he arrived as a child. Their mentors, Sister Abbie and Father Connor, respectively, notice a budding love growing between the two. However, that is a problem for another day. Father Connor and Peter are on their way to California to heal a possessed woman. Father Connor fears that he has encountered this particular demon before, along with Sister Abbie, over ten years ago. While the exorcism is successful, they have to destroy the demon once and for all. Only Peter has a certain connection to it and falls for the temptation of learning the truth about how he became an orphan all those years ago. Consequently, the demon becomes a passenger on his way back to New Orleans. And it is all too eager to use vulnerable people to wreak havoc in its wake. Hell’s Cargo by Michelle Garza and Melissa Lason is a splatter western story that explores how even the most devout people will do whatever it takes to rid the world of evil – even if it means the road to salvation is paved with debauchery and murder.
In the small town Alligator Point – just south of New Orleans, Louisiana – stories of “the Piper” are part of the town’s history. Just as much as the infamous slave traders, the Pirates Lafitte. But recently, children have gone missing – with discovered bones the only clues as to what might have happened to them. But in the dangerous lands of the bayou, no one can be certain other animals are to blame. And when nine-year-old Pontiac’s best friend becomes a victim, she can’t help but feel that the legend might be real. What she and her neighbors don’t realize, though, is that the Piper is out for revenge for what the town’s ancestors did all those years ago. If they don’t atone for those crimes before it’s too late, their personal ailments will be the least of their worries. Pay the Piper is the second collaboration between George A. Romero’s estate and bestselling author Daniel Kraus and a Southern Gothic fiction novel that forces characters to face the sins of their ancestors – or pay the price for them.
