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Amazon Sales Rank: 889480
Publication Date: 2008-08-05
Publisher: Delirium Books
ISBN: 1934546011
Type: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 236
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Unemployed actor Jack Wade takes his comatose wife to an isolated spot in the mountains, a place where a man once murdered his entire family. Frankie was a successful movie producer, but now they have run out of money. This dilapidated cabin is all they have left. As the long, lonely nights stretch out before him, Jack's dreams overflow with nightmarish images. The isolation loosens his grip on reality. He believes Frankie is capable of leaving her bed and moving around. And as Jack falls apart inside the cabin, someone or something else begins stalking the woods outside. Is the mountain evil, the cabin haunted? Or is poor Jack just going insane? Harry Shannon's disturbing novel is a relentless, non-stop exercise in terror.
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Review: 2008-11-06
You only think you're alone...
I highly recommend this title for fans of the ghost story and the blood drenched madman. All the characters have a unique voice, from the Iraq veteran woman police officer to a hillbilly named Booger. You'll want the pages to turn quicker as the story continues-- it's just so MUCH horrific fun. Think half Evil Dead and maybe half Deliverance, all told through Shannon's avuncular narrative voice, and you then have DEAD AND GONE. The ghosts in this will give you the perma-creeps. You'll want to look over your shoulder from time to time, because as this novel warns, "you only think you're alone."
Review: 2008-08-22
Amazingly scary book
This book was amazing!! Right up there with Stephen King, it scared me to death!! I felt like Joey from Friends when I had to put the book in another room at night so I could sleep - I loved being scared!! Cannot wait to see the movie, I have been told it is just as good as the book. I cannot wait to read more by Harry Shannon!!
Review: 2008-08-14
DEAD AND GONE - A Fantastic & Frightening Read
I've just completed a detailed review of DEAD AND GONE for FEARZONE (http://www.fearzone.com/blog/macabre-harry)
This is a first rate and truly frightening novel written by a talented author at the very top of his form. I give it my highest recommendation.
Review: 2008-08-10
A Jolly/Scary Romp Through the 1980's
The author clearly has a ball both tweaking and honoring the tropes of 1980's horror; the deserted cabin with a ghastly past, the crazy rednecks who live in the area, even an old Indian burial ground. The novel version in many respects surpasses the Lionsgate DVD. Screenwriter Harry Shannon here has no budget constraints to content with, no actors unable to nail difficult scenes in one or two takes, no technical difficulties to cover up in editing. He expands several subplots, including a sweet crush between Sheriff Pete Johnson (played in the film by Shannon himself) and the much younger, and very troubled Constable Kate Eidson. Adds a maniac named Billy Bob Mercer, who may or may not be one of the reasons people are dying in horrible ways. Booger and Moss Rose, minor characters (in the case of Moss, the appropriate word would likely be caricature) here become fleshed out human beings with an odd and disturbingly believable symbiosis. Those moves all make the denouement of the story more weighty than the climax to the swift-moving cult film. Shannon has authored seven other novels in the horror and crime genre, and his writing is top notch. It's a cartoon of a read, bound to elicit chuckles as well as gooseflesh, and highly recommended to fans of the genre. Those with writing aspirations may want to watch the DVD and then sit back with the novel and some popcorn and see how a real master spins a magnificent horror yarn from relatively thin material.
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