Book Review: Will Haunt You by Brian Kirk

Will Haunt You by Brian Kirk

Release Date: 14 Mar, 2019
Genre: Horror
Author: Brian Kirk
Publisher: Flame Tree Press

You don’t read the book. It reads you.

Rumors of a deadly book have been floating around the dark corners of the deep web. A disturbing tale about a mysterious figure who preys on those who read the book and subjects them to a world of personalized terror.

Jesse Wheeler?former guitarist of the heavy metal group The Rising Dead?was quick to discount the ominous folklore associated with the book. It takes more than some urban legend to frighten him. Hell, reality is scary enough. Seven years ago his greatest responsibility was the nightly guitar solo. Then one night when Jesse was blackout drunk, he accidentally injured his son, leaving him permanently disabled. Dreams of being a rock star died when he destroyed his son’s future. Now he cuts radio jingles and fights to stay clean.

But Jesse is wrong. The legend is real?and tonight he will become the protagonist in an elaborate scheme specifically tailored to prey on his fears and resurrect the ghosts from his past. Jesse is not the only one in danger, however. By reading the book, you have volunteered to participate in the author’s deadly game, with every page drawing you closer to your own personalized nightmare. The real horror doesn’t begin until you reach the end.

That’s when the evil comes for you.

FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
voices.

Praise for Will Haunt You:

“…his handling of visceral horror and human drama make for an immersive tale.”
– Publisher’s Weekly

“Unlike anything you’ve ever read before.”
-LitReactor

“A tour-de-force of psychological suspense and terror.”
-Lisa Mannetti, Bram Stoker Award winner and Shirley Jackson Award finalist, author of The Box Jumper

“A genuinely weird and powerful vision, Will Haunt You delivers on its titular boast, in spades.”
-Gemma Files, author of Experimental Film

“Will Haunt You is positively terrifying, and Kirk delivers what may be some of the best horror writing of the year.”
-Michael Patrick Hicks, author of Broken Shells and Mass Hysteria

“Inventive, emotional, and harrowing…feels like something that came dripping out of a monster’s fever dream.”
-High Fever Books Review

“An example of psychological horror at its best. Open this book carefully. It might be the last thing you do.”
-Stephanie M. Wytovich, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Brothel

“Rest assured, this is no breezy melody. It’s a dark arrangement, a terror chorus. It will sink into your bones and shake you.”
-Rio Youers, author of The Forgotten Girl and Halcyon

“One of the creepiest, and most terrifying beginnings I can remember reading in a long time.”
-The Scary Reviews

“A strange and haunting bit of fiction, punch drunk with distorting the path you think you’re on.”
-Kendall Reviews

“A vivid mind-flaying descent into one man’s living nightmare. Bizarre, chilling, and at times heartbreaking, the puzzle hidden between the lines will never leave.”
-Todd Keisling, author of The Final Reconciliation and Ugly Little Things

“Masterful…a trippy piece of rock-and-roll-fueled occult meta-fiction proving that love sometimes is terrifyingly difficult to attain.”
-John F.D. Taff, Multi-Bram Stoker-Nominated Author of Little Black Spots and The Fearing

Brian Kirk is an author of dark thrillers and psychological suspense. His debut novel, We Are Monsters, was released in July 2015 and was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.

His short fiction has been published in many notable magazines and anthologies. Most recently, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories and Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, where his work appears alongside multiple New York Times bestselling authors, and received an honorable mention in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year compilation.

During the day, Brian works as a freelance marketing and creative consultant. His experience working on large, integrated advertising campaigns for international companies has helped him build an effective author platform, and makes him a strong marketing ally for his publishing partners. In addition, Brian has an eye for emerging media trends and an ability to integrate storytelling into new technologies and platforms.

While he’s worked to make this bio sound as impressive as possible, he’s actually a rather humble guy who believes in hard work and big dreams. Feel free to connect with him through one of the following channels. Don’t worry, he only kills his characters.

AWARDS:

Bram Stoker Award Finalist: Superior Achievement in a First Novel – 2015

Review:

“The only question is how the story ends for you. Because it’s only just begun.”

The ride will begin and into forbidden frontiers, irreversible realms, lies, frighting abominations and tellings, trapped in a vicious cycle of torment and wrongs doings all played before you whilst in the mind of another, a maniac mind, replaying nostalgia painful and regretful, truth or falsehood.
The main characters escape to safety, to normality, from all the craziness and outrage ensuing, keeps you tied in to this tale with keen interest.

Taking you viscerally to new levels of evocation and sensory overload, with some good choice of words with some bad things, the usual bad words too, and ugliness, through a bent mind ride, taken by the authors hand in first person narration in a nightmarish fever dream brain impregnation that may stir and haunt.

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Author John F.D Taff recommended this book in an interview :https://more2read.com

Reviewed by Lou Pendergrast on 15 March 2019