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Originally Posted by radbaddude
A few books by Jonathan Janz are on sale. I've read The Dark Game and The Siren and the Spectre. Both quality books, 4/5 rating from me. Haven't yet read The Sorrows. All $0.99 Amazon US.
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Thanks for that. I picked up all three. I've previously purchased Janz'
Children of the Dark, but haven't read it yet.
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The Dark Game
Ten writers are selected for a summer-long writing retreat with the most celebrated and reclusive author in the world. Their host is the legendary Roderick Wells. Handsome, enigmatic, and fiendishly talented, Wells promises to teach his pupils about writing, about magic, about the untapped potential that each of them possesses. Most of all, he plans to teach them about the darkness in their hearts.
The writers think they are signing up for a chance at riches and literary prestige. But they are really entering the twisted imagination of a deranged genius, a lethal contest pitting them against one another in a struggle for their sanity and their lives. They have entered into Roderick Wells’s most brilliant and horrible creation.
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The plot sounds a little bit like Scott Nicholson's
The Manor/Creative Spirit
"When artists gather at a remote Appalachian estate for a retreat, they are unaware that their energy is feeding something unwholesome. Sculptor Mason Jackson and dying parapsychologist Anna Galloway must uncover the dark secrets of Korban Manor before their spirits become trapped forever."
If you like one, you may like the other.
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The Sorrows
The Sorrows, an island off the coast of northern California, and its castle have been uninhabited since a series of gruesome murders in 1925. But its owner needs money, so he allows film composers Ben and Eddie and a couple of their female friends to stay a month in Castle Blackwood. Eddie is certain a haunted castle is just the setting Ben needs to find inspiration for a horror film.
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Does stuff like that ever happen outside of a horror story?
I like these kind of stories, but I always approach them with a wink or an eye roll. Bernard Hermann didn't need to stay at a haunted house to compose the score for Psycho
