Austin has a secret. He secretly wishes his wife would die. At a bar, drinking into the midnight hour, Austin even admits his secret to a seductive woman sporting a strange tattoo. But this woman isn’t a stranger for long. Soon after that night, his wife introduces the woman as Regina, their new neighbor. Maybe Regina will be a good influence for his wife. Austin’s hopes are shattered when he returns home one night to find his wife dead.
Then there’s only Regina, who shows him a strange new world full of rituals and magic. Now everything he loves and holds dear is in jeopardy. Time is running out. Austin needs to save himself, and his daughter, before the planets align.
Before the Devil’s Equinox.
Why we’re excited about this book:
Flame Tree Press, with their exciting series Fiction Without Frontiers, has been knocking it out of the park for the past year with stellar releases. This new novel from John Everson looks to be another heavy hitter horror fans are going to love. Everson is the author of the Bram Stoker Award winning Covenant, Sacrifice, The House by the Cemetery, The 13th, Siren, and his latest short-story collection, Sacrificing Virgins. With his latest novel, Everson twists seductive obsession with shadowy occult magic, bringing it all to a fever pitch. The Haunted Reading Room says: “John Everson’s newest novel is so powerful, so terrifying, so implacable in the evil it describes, that I could not stop reading.” Forthcoming from Flame Tree Press, The Devil’s Equinox by John Everson is available for pre-order, and releases 27 June 2019.
BOB PASTORELLA