The Pumpkin Man

Description

After her father's gruesome murder, Jenn needed a place to get away from it all with some friends, to take her mind off her grief. The empty seaside cottage she inherited seemed perfect. Jenn didn't know that the cottage held arcane secrets, mysteries long hidden and best left alone. She didn't realize until it was too late that the old books and Ouija board she found there really do hold great power. And it was only after her friend's headless body was discovered that she knew the legend of the local bogeyman was no mere legend at all. An evil has been unleashed, a terrifying figure previously only spoken of in whispers. But now the whispers will become screams. Beware The Pumpkin Man.

John Everson is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels Covenant, Sacrifice, and The 13th. He shares a deep purple den in Naperville, Illinois, with a cockatoo and cockatiel, a disparate collection of skulls, twisted skeletal fairies, and a large stuffed Eeyore. There's also a mounted Chinese fowling spider named Stoker, an ever-growing shelf of custom mix CDs, and an acoustic guitar that he can't really play but that his son likes to hear him beat on anyway. Sometimes his wife is surprised to find him shuffling through more public areas of the house, but it's usually only to brew another cup of coffee or restock a pint of Newcastle.

"Everson consistently offers creepy, gothic settings, disturbing kill scenes, plenty of thrills, and writing that's more addictive than crack." --"Horror Fiction Review" "John Everson brings something new and edgy to the genre. It's like reading a killer rock record."--Paperbackhorror.com "John Everson has guts, and clearly likes to explore and tamper with boundaries. He is a good enough writer that he can get away with murder, as well as multitudes of morbid mayhem." --"Hellnotes""Everson is a writer who knows how to pack the punches and hit his readers hard with his horrific visions. His writing style and knowledge of the mythos makes him a modern day Lovecraft."--"The Horror Review""With perhaps his most intense offering yet, Stoker Award winning author John Everson has carved out yet another twisted tale of lust-spiced, bloody mayhem."--"Shroud Magazine"