“With this tale of a soul in jeopardy against a backdrop of apocalyptic terror, Christian Francis distills enough plot for a 500 page novel into a tight fable-like novella, poignant and horrifying in equal measure.” Peter Atkins (Morningstar, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Wishmaster)
As the snow beats down on a small Appalachian town of Folksville, the Stacey Brothers meet to bury their father. Their bittersweet reunion soon turns into terror as, under the cover of darkness, something unnatural starts to make its way throughout the town. Something that spreads a rot so monstrous, that nothing can survive.
Reviews
‘I don’t know how Christian managed this but he has fit an entire 400 page novel into a 90 page novella that keeps you gripped and not a single line of text is wasted. I was happily trundling along for the first 35 or so pages, and then there was a gut punch moment where the horror literally had me gasping open mouthed thinking where did that come from?! And that ending? Like I need to have a series based on that ending!’
David W Adams – Author of The Dark Corner Literary Universe
‘Christian Francis beautifully and terrifyingly pulls back the curtain upon the very idea of family, particularly the relationship between fathers and sons, and examines the power and pain of those connections. The story grows and develops in ways that will surprise the reader, yet are wholly in keeping with the characters and the complexities of the relationships they inhabit. Plato’s question, “…shall they in all their actions be true to the name?” simmers under every line in this story.!’
Joe Haward – HorrorDNA
‘Another cracker of a story from the talented Christian Francis’
Emma B – Goodreads
