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Twin Peaks: The Return Finale–a world of horror [spoiler alert]

This eerie episode ends with a woman’s scream.  It pretty much starts with a woman’s scream when Agent Cooper is in the red room in an alternate reality where a woman approaches him and then, screaming, is yanked into oblivion.  It’s also in the red room where the one-armed man asks Cooper, “Is it the past or is it the future?”

Everyone’s isolation is made clear in this episode, where Cooper and Diane make love like zombies. They’re both so alienated they don’t even know each other’s name, even though they’re making love.  Diane deserts Cooper during the night and leaves a note for him calling him Richard, though his name is Dale, and calling herself Linda, even though she’s Diane.

This is an episode about alienation and angst, an episode depicting the world as a horrifying place that elicits screams of terror at something we can’t see, where individuals are condemned to live in the solitude of their own bodies even when they are coupling.  It is a world where paranoid people bound by horror drive laconically through the night watching endless ribbons of highway unspooling through the windshield, suspecting that the car behind them is following them.  But is it really the end?

Hopefully, it will return next year.

Free Preview of Force of Impact on Sept. 4, Labor Day

Bryan Cassiday’s preview of his new thriller Force of Impact will be available FREE on Kindle Monday, September 4, Labor Day.

A horror author’s life plunges into a nightmare worse than he could imagine.

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Strangers on a Train–the movie vs. the novel

Patricia Highsmith’s novel Strangers on a Train, from which Alfred Hitchcock adapted the movie of the same name, is much grimmer than the movie version. The screenwriter changed the ending to sanitize the story to allow for a typical fluffy Hollywood happy ending. The novel is obsessed with Guy’s emotional state and his internal conflicts toward the end, whereas the movie is more concerned with his external conflict versus the maniac Bruno and his desperate attempts to elude Bruno’s diabolical trap. If you haven’t read the book and you’ve seen the movie, you’re in for a surprise when you read it.

Force of Impact is now available for preorder

Bryan Cassiday’s taut conspiracy thriller Force of Impact is now available for preorder on Kindle.

Struggling horror novelist Bart Dillinger doesn’t accept the official police report that says his girlfriend actress Jackie Merced committed suicide by shooting herself while driving off a cliff. He hires PI Ethan Carr to find out how she really died. Carr discovers secrets Dillinger didn’t know about her which reveal she was more complicated than even he knew. Carr also discovers she belonged to a clandestine club of masked members in Hollywood who like to play games. These members include politicians and other movers and shakers. And the games they like to play are deadly.

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Force of Impact will soon be available for preorder

Bryan Cassiday’s new white-knuckle conspiracy thriller Force of Impact will soon be available for preorder on Kindle.  Stay tuned for more updates.

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Shadows and Teeth Volume Two wins another award

I am pleased to announce that Darkwater Syndicate’s Shadows and Teeth Volume Two, which includes my short story “Boxed,” has just won another award to go along with the International Book Award it won for best adult horror fiction anthology 2017.  This time around, Shadows and Teeth Volume Two, won FAPA’s President’s Gold Medal for horror fiction 2017.  Check out the Florida Authors’ and Publishers’ Association press release here.

 

Bryan Cassiday’s thriller Force of Impact is Hot and Trending at Kindle Scout

This is the last day to read sample chapters from Bryan Cassiday’s new thriller Force of Impact at Kindle Scout, where it is still on the Hot and Trending list.

A Los Angeles PI hired by a tormented horror author to investigate his girlfriend’s death becomes ensnared in a conspiracy involving an exclusive Hollywood club where the masked members like to play deadly games.

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Force of Impact is Number One on Hot and Trending list at Kindle Scout

Bryan Cassiday’s new thriller Force of Impact is still Number One on the Hot and Trending list at Kindle Scout.

Read seven sample chapters and cast your vote now at Kindle Scout.

A Los Angeles PI is hired by a troubled horror writer to investigate his girlfriend’s death and becomes ensnared in a conspiracy involving an exclusive Hollywood club of masked members who like to play deadly games.

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Force of Impact–the book the mainstream media doesn’t want you to read

Bryan Cassiday’s new taut thriller Force of Impact is the book the mainstream media doesn’t want you to read.  Nevertheless, the book will be published.  Stay tuned for more information on the exact publishing date.  As for now, you can still read sample chapters at Kindle Scout but only for thirteen more days.

An exclusive Hollywood club of movers and shakers has secrets to hide and the power to keep them hidden in the supercharged thriller Force of Impact.

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Horror Stories

I’m working on a collection of horror stories, which, by the way, for what it’s worth (exactly nothing), were rejected by magazines such as Fantasy and Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Black Static.  Nevertheless, these stories will see the light of day, even if I have to publish them myself.  Sic semper tyrannis.