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Write the blurb to your first horror novel.

A blurb should intrigue the reader; introducing the main characters, and describing the plot, without giving too much away.

Writings

The Abyss Of Nightmare

Alana Daggers stands in a sunless void surrounded by a warning silence. She sets out with her co-adventurer, Jack Strider. Usually, Alana thrives on the unpredictable path, but this one sends a shiver down her spine. Jack falters as he steps into the thick shadows with a nervous tick, and his jaw clenches. Despite the stomach turmoil, urging them to pull back, pride and ego push them forward into ...

 Night-Terror

When Rachel goes camping with her boyfriend and group of friends, she is reminded of her fear of the dark from when she was a little girl. As the fire fades and the forest calms, the darkness around them begins to stir. Darkness isn’t so scary when you’re all grown up. Until Jay, one of her friends, ends up dead outside of his tent the next morning. Now the group of friends must survive to get out...

Veiled

Andrea held her breath, instinctively shrinking into the shadows, hoping the entity wouldn’t notice her. But it was no use. It’s ethereal form drifted closer, moving like smoke, silent and graceful. She could feel it’s presence like a physical thing, heavy and unavoidable. It had no visible eyes but she could tell it was looking at her. She was so tempted to run but her leg made that impossible. I...

Haunted

Thrill seeker Milly had just finished her last year of high school and she was ready to explore the world. Having her mind set on visiting abandoned mansions and hospitals was one the many reasons why her parents would never let her go so instead she tells them a lie and she is supposedly on her way to volunteer for turtle season in Florida. Her parents are so excited for her and Milly has just bo...

Silent Night

On a snow-covered night in Chester, Billy Mill’s found himself fighting for his life against beasts stalking from the shadows. Hunting is something Billy was familiar with but never as the hunted. After 3 weeks of his peers disappearing with the only evidence being a red stain in the snow and claw marks raked across trees. Whispers of ancient legends are coming to life in this small, isolated town...

He

Things live in the shadows. Things that won’t hesitate to kill. To hunt.


But they are the least of anyone’s worries.


He is dangerous. He is deadly. He is said to drink the blood of others and kill for the thrill of it.


They say he has a kill list. They say everyone is on it. They say everyone is next....

The Nobodies

When fear turns to hatred then obsession, a group of childhood bullies must fight for both their sanity and their lives when those they victimized in their youth, come back into their lives with only one purpose. Revenge. A revenge set off by a seemingly innocuous note left upon Claire Blanchard’s kitchen table leaving this former mean girl with two pressing questions. One, how did someone get ins...

Trepidation

“When the door didn’t open, my mind did, to all the reasons why I was in danger.”


When Dean accepts a car ride from his co-worker, Paige, to an open house showing in the suburbs of Boston, he unexpectedly meets a disturbed stranger who interprets his kindness as something greater....

Coming Home

Jackson never understood why people thought monsters were so evil. After all half his family are monsters. As Jackson starts to come to terms with how he is seen in the world and coming to terms with his Hyde side named Holt. He runs into someone from his past with some troubling issues with the monster world....

The Vampire: The Life Of Amon

The vampire dives into vampire lore, and follows the most ruthless and vicious vampire of all time. Why did he do the things that he did? Was there a reason behind everything? The prophecy states that Amon will either fight for the side of light or for Lucifer. What possible reason could the most feared vampire in a millennium want to join God himself? His SOULMATE! In this book it’s doesn’t just ...