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Book Review: Judgement Of Evil by Lori A. Lowthert

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Rebekah hadvowed to stop killing for love, but she finds herself unable to stop. Scottstill knows nothing about her secret life. She is happily attending graduateschool when the unthinkable happens--she is arrested and charged for one of themurders she committed last year. She spends a few nights in jail before shegoes in front of a judge, who sets the bail at an exorbitant $1 million. Herfather and Scott are able to raise the necessary money and get her out on bail.She kills again, even when she is out on bail. Rebekah has hired an excellentcriminal defense attorney, but she's afraid it won't be enough and she'll goback to jail.


REVIEW:
In Judgment Of Evil, Rebekah is put ontrial for a murder that she committed in the first book, Instrument Of Evil. Although Rebekah doesn't seem to be tooaffected by this (I expected from her apathetic personality), her husband isn'tconcerned by the fact that his bride is on trial for a murder. He seems just asapathetic as her, and unconcerned with the fact that she was in a hot tub withanother man while they were deep into their relationship. Her husband, Scott,seems to brush it off as if it were nothing.
After awhirlwind relationship, the newly wedded couple has to break the news to theirfamilies that they have eloped. Their time between meting family and the trailwas filled with tedious areas about shopping, and opening gifts. The passageswere a constant whirlwind of designer clothes and furniture, which seemed tostring into unnecessary detail.
Even though shevows to cut back on killing, she still does it from time to time, but theintermissions between them are filled with everyday living descriptions,without any real cause other than to write another sex scene between Rebekahand her husband. The potential of writing first person would give you an extraordinaryamount of room for internal conflict of fighting the inner demon, which I thinkthe writer fell flat on. It just seemed like there should have been a biggerinternal debate, instead we got pages of a normal happy life with a littlesentence drop every now and then of: "I should stop killing." And then back toPrada, IKEA, Burberry, and Fifth Avenue.
At first glanceI want to compare it roughly to American Psycho, but Patrick Bateman showed usan opinion of consumerism, materialism, and everything that is wrong withsociety. Rebekah's personality just doesn't seem to flesh out at all, leavingyou to wonder if her story would be plausible, and just like the first book, Iwas left arguing with myself whether or not I liked the story. The character doesfall loosely into the traits of a psychopath, leaving it debatable to thereader as to whether or not they find the story intriguing, and again I willhave to fall into the middle. 


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Book Review: Instrument of Evil by Lori A. Lowthert

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Rebekah Johnsonhas a really big secret, one she's pretty sure will end her new relationshipwith Scott. She'd like to tell him, but she anticipates his response would beto break up with her. Or report her to the police. Most likely both. Rebekah isa fledgling serial killer, and she's not ready to put killing aside. What's ayoung serial killer to do? Can she give up killing to save her relationship?
REVIEW:
I have to admitthat I messed up. I actually read the second book in this story first, butthat's another review.
Instrument of Evil is about a female serial killer as shegrows up, and the events that led her to kill. During college, she has to writea thesis for phycology, and decides to write two separate ones. One thesis isabout children, and their habits of lying, and the other about psychopaths,which Rebekah has self-diagnosed herself as.
FROM THE BOOK:I was forced to accept the idea that Iwas a psychopathic person, a person who would lie, cheat, steal, and hurtothers, for the fun of it.
The first thirdof the book was spent solely on backstory, which seemed to serve no realpurpose other than to prove that she was brought up in a somewhat normalhousehold. Rebekah's character rubbed off on me as a spoiled, intelligent, brat,who only did things for attention. There were long descriptions of familyvacations and shopping trips, but they didn't really show us anything other thandescriptions.
There wasnothing fantastic about the first half of the book to me, and I had troublereally getting into the story, as it was just normal life of a girl growing up.She gets into trouble like most teens, and the only thing remotely disturbingis that fact that she lied and help convict an innocent man of rape.
The story istold from first person perspective, and could have easily showed us insightinto the mind of a killer, or given us opinions of what a serial killer thoughtof the events around her, but there were only a few sarcastic monologues thatreminded me of the disgruntled teen that she is.
Personally, whenI read a description about a book that includes a serial killer, I expectmurder to be a huge premise of the story. We don't really start to tread on thesubject of murder until we are almost halfway through the book.
Even thoughRebekah's character falls into the personality traits of a psychopath (forthose who study theory of mind obsessively like me), the traits actually tendto sway toward the tame side, and even then I had trouble finding itconvincing. I was hoping for more of an internal struggle from the character,and it just wasn't there. I believe that the author was shooting for a moreapathetic personality, which holds true in some cases, but I was hoping for amassive tortured soul, possibly including the audio and visual hallucinations.Rebekah's psychopathic tendencies fall under the thrill-kill category, but heroff-putting personality has you doubting that she is even getting a thrill fromit. I was hoping to either see her fighting with the urge to kill people, or tobattle keeping her life in control because of the murders, but nether seemed toemerge and flesh out. She seemed to drop in a line here or there that she stopkilling, but there was no big internal debate over the subject.
Now for thekicker. We don't know what really goes on in the mind of a serial killerbecause most of them have either been sentenced to death, or have never beencaught. There are so many varying degrees of insanity that no two would be thesame, so to say that Rebekah's character is unrealistic can be debated, andlet's not forget the fact that this book is merely fiction.
I have to giveLoria Lowthert credit. It was a fabulous idea, and I still don't know whether Ilike this book or not, so I have to settle in the middle with a 3 star rating. Thebook was well written and edited, and it had me arguing with myself over theoryof mind. I don't think I've ever had a love/hate relationship with a bookbefore, until now.   

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Author Spotlight: Jonathan Maberry

[image error] JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times best-selling andmultiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author, magazine feature writer, playwright,content creator and writing teacher/lecturer. His books have been sold to morethan twenty countries.
His novels include:
The Pine DeepTrilogy:

GHOST ROAD BLUES (Pinnacle books; winner of the BramStoker Award for Best First Novel in 2006)DEAD MAN'S SONG (2007) BAD MOON RISING(2008)

The Joe Ledgerseries of action thrillers from St. Martins Griffin:

PATIENT ZERO (2009, voted one Best Zombie Novel of2009; winner of the Black Quill Award and a Bram Stoker Award finalist)THE DRAGON FACTORY (2010)THE KING OF PLAGUES (2011) ASSASSIN'S CODE (2012)EXTINCTION MACHINE (2013)
THE WOLFMAN (NY Times bestseller from Tor and winnerof the Scribe Award for Best Adaptation, based on the Universal Pictures filmstarring Benecio Del Toro, Emily Blunt and Sir Anthony Hopkins)
The Benny Imuraseries of Young Adult dystopian zombie thrillers from Simon & Schuster:


ROT & RUIN (2010)DUST & DECAY (2011) FLESH & BONE (2012) FIRE & ASH (2013)
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Jonathan wasfeatured in a History Channel special, Zombies:A Living History, which aired October 25, 2011. He has also has co-authoredand worked on several non-fiction books that that explore vampires and zombies.
He writes avariety of projects for Marvel Comics involving BLACK PANTHER, DOOMWAR, WOLVERINE, DEADPOOL, CAPTAIN AMERICA,THE X-MEN, FANTASTIC FOUR and the NY Times bestselling MARVEL ZOMBIES RETURN, MARVELUNIVERSE VS THE PUNISHER, and MARVELUNIVERSE VS WOLVERINE. All of Jonathan's comic book collections will bereleased as Graphic Novel collections.< &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;A HREF="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?rt=tf_... Widgets&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/A&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;/span>
Jonathan is alsothe author of several short stories, and the Contributing Editor for The BigThrill (the newsletter of the International Thriller Writers). He is a foundingmember of The Liars Club, a group of networking publishing professionals thatincludes celebrated authors. The Liars Club works to support booksellers, raiseawareness and support for public libraries, and cultivate a joy of reading andbooks.
On the lastSunday of every month Jonathan hosts the Writers Coffeehouse, a free three-houropen-agenda networking and discussion session for writers of all genres andlevels of skill.Jonathan hasbeen a popular writing teacher and career counselor for writers for the lasttwo decades. He teaches a highly regard series of classes and workshopsincluding Write Your Novel in Nine Months, Revise & Sell, ExperimentalWriting for Teens, and others.
To find out moreabout Jonathan check out his site, www.jonathanmaberry.com

Excerpt of Jonathan Mayberry's Dead Of Night

Book Review: Hellwatch: Mephistopheles by Larime Taylor

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Ester Vasquez,25, was born with arthrogryposis. As a child she showed a natural aptitude withcomputers that eventually led to the online underworld of hacking, where shebecame a star. Though she was never caught, she decided to turn her skills tomore legal endeavors, attending Arizona State University and offering her servicesas an online security specialist. A successful early career followed. Roughlyfour years ago, however, something happened within her family that shook her tothe core and brought on some drastic changes over time. She still refuses totalk about it.
After severalyears as the 'It Girl' of online security, she all but gave up the professionand took up a more peculiar one: hunting demons and monsters. She continues tolive on the money that her company makes, though she has very little to do withits day-to-day functions and dealings, leaving that to a business manager andseveral other young hackers hired on to take her place after she walked away justover two years ago. A former Catholic priest-turned-demon hunter in Bostonnamed Jacob Bridges took her on as a student and became her long-distancementor.
Ester met Samuel'Sammy' Lutui, a registered nurse, soon after when his grandmother hired herbecause she was convinced that he was possessed by a demon. Grandma was old andold fashioned, and being gay was something she just couldn't come to accept.Funny enough, it turned out that there was a demon in Sammy, but it had nothingto do with his being gay, and Ester easily got rid of it. In his gratitude,Sammy became Ester's live-in care provider as well as her demon-huntingassistant, and in the two years that followed they've become best friends.Together they protect the unaware masses from the monsters and demons that lurkin the shadows and prey upon them.


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ABOUT EPISODE 2:
The enigmaticDemon in Black, an independent agent and Ester's occasional contact, surfaceswith some important information. As he looks to be playing both sides of thefence, whose side is he really on? Can he make Ester an offer she can't refuse?
REVIEW:
Mephistopheles is the second episode of Larime Taylor's Hellwatch series,and I highly recommend it to anyone that loved the movie Constantine. You canread the pilot episode on Larime's site, along with each new episode, whichwill be appearing on a monthly basis until Halloween 2012.
In the second episode we get to see Ester and Samuel at their best. Theyare recuperating after capturing a nasty demon in Mexico, but Ester tries tohide some emotional wounds that run deeper than her healing laceration.
There are things about Ester's past that Samuel doesn't know. Esterstruggles with her own inner demons. Ester had seen things that caused her topursue a life as a demon hunter, but what Samuel doesn't realize, is that whatshe saw came from her home.
In steps Mephistopheles. He's not too fond of making deals with thedevil's spawn, but he is concerned about one person – himself. Mephistophelesis a fallen angel that not only turned his back on god, but the devil too. Hehas no desire to help in the war between good and evil, he only wants to beleft alone. If that means making a deal with the one of the princes of hell –so be it.
The devil's children are looking for a way to gain Mephistophelescooperation, because he knows one thing that they can't figure out. Mephistopheleshas possessed the body of a human without there being a physical conflictbetween human and the demon's soul. This is valuable information that all thedemons would like to know, but Mephistopheles only wants one thing – to beomitted from the war.
Pacts are signed in blood and deals are made. You can break a deal with ademon, but there will be hell to pay afterward.


I read Mephistopheles before it was completelythrough the editing process, and have to admit that Larime Taylor has a greattalent for story building. The author has created a complex world of greed;with an unfolding deeper plot that I'm sure will take us on a ride through theseries. His characters well thought out and dimensional. Larime tells a storyfrom the view most of never see, and has a great lure to keep you captivated. 
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An interview of me.

It's not often that I'm the one in the hot seat. Brent Michael Kelley, author of Chuggie And The Desecration Of Stagwater, decided to ask me some hard hitting questions about writing, Harrison Ford, and space rays. You can read my answers on his site by click here: http://www.catbat.com/bmk/?p=494 


And if you haven't read Brent's book, check out my review of it by clicking here: http://www.authorcvhunt.com/2012/01/book-review-chuggie-and-desecration-of.html




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Book Review: The Last Man On Earth Club by Paul R. Hardy

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Six people aregathered for a therapy group deep in the countryside. Six people who share aunique and terrible trauma: each one is the last survivor of an apocalypse. 

Each of them was rescued from a parallel universe where humanity was wiped out.They've survived nuclear war, machine uprisings, mass suicide, the reanimateddead, and more. They've been given sanctuary on the homeworld of theInterversal Union and placed with Dr. Asha Singh, a therapist who works withsurvivors of doomed worlds. 


To help them, she'll have to figure out what they've been through, what they'vesuffered, and the secrets they're hiding. She can't cure them of being the lastman or woman on Earth. But she can help them learn to live with the horrorsthey survived. 
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REVIEW:
I'm usually notone for science fiction, but I have a weakness for apocalyptic fiction. Whetherit's the all-consuming zombie virus, or just the scientific deterioration of theworld, I find myself drawn to stories that contain some type of cataclysm. WhenI read the synopsis for The Last Man OnEarth Club, I couldn't refuse.
Everyone has a theoryas to how the world will end, but Paul R. Hardy presents us with six.
Imagine if youcan. There are an unlimited amount of parallel universes, with one that hadbeen dubbed the Hub. The Hub's main goal is to scour all of the paralleluniverses for worlds (or Earths) that are in trouble. Their function is to keepthese worlds alive by intervening and providing the people with the resourcesthat they need, or evacuate the remaining refugees to the Hub.
The Last Man On Earth Club is exactly that. The Hub was too late insix universes, and the result was that there was only a sole survivor of the "species"on each planet. The catastrophes range from machine/human wars, nuclearfallouts, zombie plagues, species extinction (on a world with more than onespecies of humans), spontaneous combustion, and an electromagnetic pulse phenomenon.The single survivors are sent to Hub to begin post-traumatic stress disorder therapyas a group. In a way that reminded me of TheBreakfast Club, the group talks out the trauma that they endured.
This book is ahuge bite at a staggering 170,000 word count, and I almost wanted to pass onreading it because of the length. I'm glad that I didn't. The book is brokendown into individual therapy sessions that I found compelling. I only had twocomplaints: a lack of physical descriptions of characters, and not attributing dialoguein group therapy. It can get a little confusing when you're not sure who isspeaking in a room of seven people, especially when the characters are growing andchanging so much.  
Overall I reallyenjoyed the book, even though it felt like reading six apocalyptic books at thesame time. It's not the regular horror stories that I normally read, but thereare the elements of horror with the sense that nothing is under control, andyou are helpless to the inevitable. 

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Danse Macabre Giveaway!

There is still time to sign up for the Goodreads Danse Macabre giveaway.Blurb:

Spencer Mason has discovered a secret spell that will raise the dead, and as a funeral home director, there is no short supply of bodies. As Spencer builds a legion of undead soldiers, he plans to get revenge for the torment he endured during his childhood years - until Raven Anderson moves into town. 
Blind since birth, Raven struggles to adapt with her new surroundings after the death of her mother. She finds a sympathetic shoulder to lean on when she meets Spencer, and the two find out that they have a lot in common. Raven senses that Spencer is troubled by something that he isn't sharing, but the thing that tortures Spencer the most is something Raven cannot see.
Review:5 STARS - "She reels you in with a heartfelt story, only to punch you hard in the face, making you wonder if you yourself are sick and twisted just for reading it! Pure brilliance at best!" - Shannon Yarbrough, author of Are You Sitting Down? .goodreadsGiveawayWidget { color: #555; font-family: georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; background: white; } .goodreadsGiveawayWidget img { padding: 0 !important; margin: 0 !important; } .goodreadsGiveawayWidget a { padding: 0 !important; margin: 0; color: #660; text-decoration: none; } .goodreadsGiveawayWidget a:visted { color: #660; text-decoration: none; } .goodreadsGiveawayWidget a:hover { color: #660; text-decoration: underline !important; } .goodreadsGiveawayWidget p { margin: 0 0 .5em !important; padding: 0; } .goodreadsGiveawayWidgetEnterLink { display: block; width: 150px; margin: 10px auto 0 !important; padding: 0px 5px !important; text-align: center; line-height: 1.8em; color: #222; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; border: 1px solid #6A6454; -moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; font-family:arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-image:url(http://goodreads.com/images/layout/gr... background-repeat: repeat-x; background-color:#BBB596; outline: 0; white-space: nowrap; } .goodreadsGiveawayWidgetEnterLink:hover { background-image:url(http://goodreads.com/images/layout/gr... color: black; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; }
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Book Review: The Hungry Mouth by Isaac Marion

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A man and a woman on their first date discover theyhave amazing powers. 
A Tyrannosaurus Rex enjoys modern life as the guardian andspiritual mentor of Seattle. 
An angry stoplight manages traffic for the lawless humans itdespises. 
An immortal and indestructible man discovers the horror andbeauty of living forever. 
A serpent exchanges emails with government agencies,confessing to a lifelong murder spree. 
A feral cat sends psychic postcards to the family dog he leftbehind. 
A child abandoned into foster care grows into a very, very hungry man. 
A boy competes with his older brother for the affections of a girl beforediscovering a mysterious hole in the bottom of a lake. 
An old man reminisces on his career as a disease engineer fora shadowy world organization. 
A teenage girl and her kid brother make their way through a post-apocalypticSeattle while being pursued by a large, lonely zombie. 
The black hole at the center of our galaxy delivers a fierce and finalsoliloquy. 
From the author of WARM BODIES, a collection of strange stories about strangepeople, strange creatures, and strange objects experiencing joys and hungersthat are not strange at all. 
20 stories, including "Grass Through The Concerete" a novella set inthe world of WARM BODIES. 
Limited Edition designed and published by the author. Only 500 copies willbe made. All copies are signed.

Author's site: http://www.isaacmarion.com/Where the book can be purchased: http://www.thehungrymouth.com/
REVIEW:
I think the backcover of this book describes The Hungry Mouth the best:
Short and longstories about people, animals, cars, crashes, love, disease, death, dinosaurs,black holes, breakups, zombies, gods, children, happiness, and hunger.
Isaac Marion isbest known for his novel Warm Bodies, which is well on its way to amovie theater near you. The Hungry Mouth is a compilation of stories byIsaac, with a story toward the end a bit longer than the others called, GrassThrough The Concrete. Warm Bodies fans can rejoice. The author hastaken us back to the zombie fall-out. We meet Nora at sixteen and Julie at ageten, as they struggle in a world that has crashed and burned. The heartfeltsentiments are just as deep as its predecessor, and the strange sad satire isjust as thick.
The other storiesin The Hungry Mouth leading up to the zombie prequel were just as satisfying.They were bizarre, horrifying, comical, and thought provoking. She And IWalking stood out as one of my favorites. It's about a man waiting for hisblind date, only to bump into another girl waiting for her blind date. Theirwalk together explores what Love should and could be.
Jerry Lives Forever is another that stood out in my mind. It's about an immortal man, andhis exploration for happiness as the universe around him crumbles is thoughtprovoking and insightful.
I know WarmBodies fans will come for Grass Through The Concrete, but I hopethat they give the other stories a chance. The variety of emotions and satirethat are compiled in this book are too good to be true. But hurry, the authoronly printed 500 copies, and they can only be obtained through his website: http://www.thehungrymouth.com/
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I'm a horror writer?

They tell me I'm a horror writer, but I don't think that Iam. I guess I don't look at my writing as typical horror at least. When I think ofhorror, a couple of things spring to mind. The thoughts usually involve a typeof cold and mindless monster, a group of people afraid of it, and some hell-bentchaos as people try to kill said monster. That's not what I write.
While most people automatically side with the frightenedhumans, I'm usually internally asking: Whyis the monster so mad? What did the humans do to him?
Maybe he's just looking for someone to accept him for who heis, and humans automatically want to kill him because he's different. After awhile, I would be ticked too if people rejected me as soon as they saw me, andthen wasted all their time and effort to hurt or kill me.
I guess I have sympathy for the devil syndrome, this wassome of the methodical thinking that went into the Endlessly series. What if the monster was just like you? Maybe themonster has feelings, and he is only doing what every creature on earth isdoing – surviving. He's not proud of what he does, but it's essential to his existence.
Monsters need love too, you know.
With the final book of the trilogy so close to publishing, Ithought I would give a small inside look at the main three characters. Withevery character I create, there always seems to be some song (the lyrics arethe important part) that I stumble upon and find fitting for them, and theirstory. As most of you know that have read these books, each one is told by a differentcharacter's point of view. Here is the breakdown:
#1 Endlessly – Verloren Fagan: The grumpy, centuries-oldvampire. For countless years he has been restricted to the rules andregulations that he doesn't completely agree with. He's been told countlesstimes who he can, and can't have a relationship with. Watched with scrutinyabout how he presents himself physically. It's sort of like having overbearingparents that tell you what you can and can't do, and what you can and can'twear. What happens to kids with overbearing parents? They tend to rebel.
SONG: Endlessly, She Said by AFI

Song lyrics: http://www.songlyrics.com/afi/endlessly-she-said-lyrics/
#2 Legacy – Ashley Nicely: Emotional, nervous, compulsive, andsometimes a little awkward. She comes from an emotionally detached family, andhas broken free of a controlling relationship that was both emotionally andphysically abusive. Her knight is shining armor shows up with the capacity tolove her the way she has longed for, and give her the freedom she needs tosoar. Sometimes there is a high price to gain freedom and love, she didn'tthink twice before she leapt blindly into it.
SONG: Earthquake by The Used

Song lyrics: http://www.songlyrics.com/the-used/earthquake-lyrics/
#3 Phantom – Jason Zurk: The indecisive werewolf in denial.Vulgar, rude, and can't make up his mind what he really wants. He tends tothink with that thing in his pants, instead of his head. But deep down, hereally just wants to love someone, and for them to love him just as much inreturn. He hates to admit that though, because that makes him look like a wimp.Talking about emotions is Jason's weak point.
SONG: Smile Princess, You're Perfect by Us, From Outside


Song lyrics: http://www.songlyrics.com/us-from-outside/smile-princess-you-re-perfect-lyrics/
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Book Review: Satan's Casting Call by Lisa Maliga

[image error] [image error] 4 out of 5Duncan Smith-Holmes is a struggling young actor who is indesperate need of a paying gig or he has to leave Hollywood. But a bizarrecasting call and an opportunity to land a major role in a high budget movie issomething he can't pass up -- no matter what the consequences.


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REVIEW:
Satan's Casting Call is a quick read at just over 9000words. While the story is entertaining, it does lack the depth that keeps youemotionally attached to any characters.
Duncan is an out-of-work actor and he'll do anything to getin the limelight. He arrives at an open casting call, and is astonished to findout he is the only person there for the audition. After discussing the projectwith the producer, Duncan decides that this role is far too important, andhigh-paying to let it slip from his fingers. The only problem is the peopleinvolved want the actor to resemble the main character… to the point ofdisfiguration.
Desperate and broke, Duncan seeks whatever it will take toland this role. How far would you be willing to go, and for how much money?
This was tasty tidbit of horror that reminded me of The Twilight Zone.
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