For Joan Lantz, it starts with a dream of a death-cult’s mass suicide in the jungle of Suriname thirty years ago, followed by the discovery of a hidden basement in her new house, where heavy metal music echoes on humid tropical air.
For Kevin Benecke, long-suffering employee of a mysterious organization known simply as Maintenance, it starts with the violent death of his co-worker at the hands of a madman who tells him, The Big Dark is coming for you.
Long-dead cult leader and former rock star Mark Maegarr has returned from beyond the grave, and Joan and Kevin have front-row seats to his apocalyptic comeback. Maegarr’s waited decades to finish what he started, and this time no one will stop him from putting on a killer show designed to hasten the universe’s end.
Rock on.
Review
Waggoner's Eat The Night is a blast -- a crazy, hard rock-fueled shotgun blastto the face. Be warned though, after reading this perfect little novella you'll want more of the world of the dispensable, jaded blue collar schlubs of the Maintenance and their variously mundane/ variously batshit terrifying fight against the insatiable Gyre. Like The XFiles if Mulder was a dumpy tongue-tied government slacker who manages to bumble from one horror to the next, alongside a robotic, emotionless partner (a lot like, well, Scully actually). Pray they don't get unsuspectingly annihilated slumped in their sweaty surveillance van - or we all do. - Aaron Sterns, co-writer of Wolf Creek 2 and author of Wolf Creek: Origin
About the Author
Tim Waggoner has published close to forty novels and three collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins, and his articles on writing have appeared in numerous publications. He's won the Bram Stoker Award, been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Scribe Award, his fiction has received numerous Honorable Mentions in volumes of Best Horror of the Year , and he's twice had stories selected for inclusion in volumes of Year's Best Hardcore Horror. He's also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio
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For Joan Lantz, it starts with a dream of a death-cult’s mass suicide in the jungle of Suriname thirty years ago, followed by the discovery of a hidden basement in her new house, where heavy metal music echoes on humid tropical air.
For Kevin Benecke, long-suffering employee of a mysterious organization known simply as Maintenance, it starts with the violent death of his co-worker at the hands of a madman who tells him, The Big Dark is coming for you.
Long-dead cult leader and former rock star Mark Maegarr has returned from beyond the grave, and Joan and Kevin have front-row seats to his apocalyptic comeback. Maegarr’s waited decades to finish what he started, and this time no one will stop him from putting on a killer show designed to hasten the universe’s end.
Rock on.
Review
Waggoner's Eat The Night is a blast -- a crazy, hard rock-fueled shotgun blastto the face. Be warned though, after reading this perfect little novella you'll want more of the world of the dispensable, jaded blue collar schlubs of the Maintenance and their variously mundane/ variously batshit terrifying fight against the insatiable Gyre. Like The XFiles if Mulder was a dumpy tongue-tied government slacker who manages to bumble from one horror to the next, alongside a robotic, emotionless partner (a lot like, well, Scully actually). Pray they don't get unsuspectingly annihilated slumped in their sweaty surveillance van - or we all do. - Aaron Sterns, co-writer of Wolf Creek 2 and author of Wolf Creek: Origin
About the Author
Tim Waggoner has published close to forty novels and three collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins, and his articles on writing have appeared in numerous publications. He's won the Bram Stoker Award, been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Scribe Award, his fiction has received numerous Honorable Mentions in volumes of Best Horror of the Year , and he's twice had stories selected for inclusion in volumes of Year's Best Hardcore Horror. He's also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio