From Within
From Within
John M. Dow (author)
Product Description
“They stopped, looking around, trying to pinpoint the source of their discomfort. The tension in the air suddenly snapped, released, and with a series of staccato bangs, every door down the length of the street swung open.
From out of the houses and shops they came, shuffling, staggering, and swaying. Fly-by-wire humans, jerking along the street like meat marionettes, with mouths agape and eyes empty. In their suits and their dresses, overalls, smocks and pyjamas, the locals of Wakely marched to their own rhythm of decay to greet the visitors to their town.”
Three strangers find themselves drawn to Wakely, a small village in the Scottish Borders, where a centuries-old conflict between two warring Celtic deities is drawing to its gruesome conclusion.
A small boy holds the key to their survival, but first they have to find him. And they’re not the only ones looking.
Product Details
File Size: 239 KB
Publisher: Smashwords, Inc (7 April 2011)
Language English
Available at Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble.
Check out the website of the author here.
Read a sample chapter here.
Review:
By C. Cross(Tamworth, Staffs United Kingdom)
(REAL NAME)
This review is from:From Within (Kindle Edition)
From Within is an unashamedly old fashioned straight-ahead horror story. It pits three mismatched and troubled strangers who are mysteriously drawn to the Borders town of Wakely against supernatural fog, the living dead, denizens of hell and ancient unknowable evils.
If you’re a fan of 70s and 80s British horror or of authors like James Herbert and Dennis Wheatley you’ll find a lot to like here. The author moves the plot along at a decent speed, introducing each hero in turn before pitting them against the horrors of Wakely. He can turn out a decent sentence too with economical but effective language.
His dialogue is sometimes less successful and occasionally falls flat but that’s hardly an unusual fault in a new author or in a self published novel. He does have a knack for some truly disturbing imagery and I’m sure some of the horrors glimpsed behind the town’s windows will stay with me for a while.
The ending is satisfying and not quite what I was expecting from the fairly traditional plotting. I won’t ruin it for you but the author makes it work when it could have become a bit silly.
This won’t be the novel to change your mind about the horror genre, you probably already know if you enjoy this sort of thing or not but if you do you could do worse (and lets face it on the Kindle store a *lot* worse) than spend a couple of quid and a couple of hours exploring Wakely’s spooky streets.
