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October 25, 2022
“Terrify” has arrived, just in time for Halloween!
Zeke is a troubled fourteen-year-old. After his family moves into a new house, his brother becomes gravely ill, his common-sense mother behaves strangely, and his strict and ultra-religious father is dead set against Zeke’s new relationship with a girl.
Zeke begins to see frightening things in his home: bizarre apparitions, ghostly visitations, and gory spectacles. Although they terrify him, he suspects he could eliminate these terrors if he overcame his guilty feelings and accepted who he really is.
Luckily, his new girlfriend knows exactly what is happening, and involves her mother to help. Both realize Zeke is under attack, and they must do something before his entire family is destroyed. Their journey will take them to the edge of sanity, battling ghost trains, violent entities, exorcisms, and the most daunting enemy of all – fear.
Will Zeke conquer all the conflicting thoughts and emotions in his head and learn to accept and use the gift his father forbade him to use – before it’s too late?
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September 13, 2022
Coming October 25
“There are other ghosts in this house. Not just me. Worse ones.
Much, much worse.”
Zeke is a troubled fourteen-year-old. After his family moves into a new house, his brother becomes gravely ill, his common-sense mother behaves strangely, and his strict and ultra-religious father is dead set against Zeke’s new relationship with a girl.
Zeke begins to see frightening things in his home: bizarre apparitions, ghostly visitations, and gory spectacles. Although they terrify him, he suspects he could eliminate these terrors if he overcame his guilty feelings and accepted who he really is.
Luckily, his new girlfriend knows exactly what is happening, and involves her mother to help. Both realize Zeke is under attack, and they must do something before his entire family is destroyed. Their journey will take them to the edge of sanity, battling ghost trains, violent entities, exorcisms, and the most daunting enemy of all – fear.
Will Zeke conquer all the conflicting thoughts and emotions in his head and learn to accept and use the gift his father forbade him to use – before it’s too late?
July 26, 2022
A new Downwinders story has arrived!
House on Fire is available now in Kindle, paperback, and hardbound formats!
Awan’s mother raised her hand and snapped her fingers. “The Lady in White…she will kill you like that!”
Awan heard his mother give warnings before, but never like this.
When Winn and Awan offer to help an FBI agent in Southeastern Utah, they don’t understand what they’re getting themselves into—unusual arsons, with houses burning so fiercely, firemen are forced to retreat. Strange mounds covering victims in the rubble. A student film that somehow played a role in resurrecting an ancient force that is terrorizing innocent victims.
David returns from California to help, but the task at hand grows more difficult and more daunting with each facet they discover. Everyone is baffled, but Awan’s mother knows what they need to do—and how dangerous it will be.
House on Fire is book 11 in the Downwinders series. Awan, Winn, David, and Carma return for another adventure set in the radiated southwest, where the ghosts are more violent and the creatures of the River more unpredictable. Like all of Michael Richan’s novels, it is a fast-paced paranormal mystery that will have you on the edge of your seat!
July 22, 2022
Aunt Death has arrived!
A frightening paranormal mystery begins when an eccentric aunt dies and leaves her strange house to a surprised nephew.
Troy didn’t know his late aunt very well, so he is stunned when he inherits her Victorian mansion. His relatives are also surprised, wondering why Troy was singled out while they receive only a pittance of the woman’s estate.
The old Victorian would fetch good money on the market, and Troy considers listing the house for sale. However, the mansion begins to reveal secret upon secret, wrapping him up in its mysterious past. He wants to be free of the house but is torn – the bizarre and frightening contents of the mansion are too intriguing, demanding he find out what his aunt was up to and what led to the unusual circumstances of her death.
Soon Troy is plunged into the most terrifying journey of his life.
May 3, 2022
“I Reside Here” #1 horror on Amazon as “I Reside Here II” is released!
I Reside Here spent several days as the #1 free Horror title on Amazon recently, just as its sequel, I Reside Here II, became available. In addition to being #1 Horror, it was also #1 on the Teen/YA list, and reached #5 in the entire Kindle store!
I Reside Here II is now available in Kindle, paperback, and hardbound formats.
April 9, 2022
I Reside Here II coming April 12!
Left by themselves, Ruby and Arthur begin exploring the off-limits areas of Floyd’s creepy mansion. Ruby is determined to understand what Floyd was up to, and she believes the answer lies within the locked rooms of the house. Using keys they find in The Forbidden Zone, Ruby and Arthur encounter horrific apparitions. Were the doors locked not to keep Ruby and Arthur out, but to keep the spirits locked in?
Meanwhile, Ruby works hard to refine her abilities so she can perform the tasks required by Mr. Gee. While attempting to harness and control Ruby’s telekinesis, a succession of instructors and guardians meet disastrous ends.
When an unresolved project of Floyd’s balloons into a crisis, a new terror is unleashed within the house, one that is determined to destroy Ruby and Arthur. While Ruby’s abilities help as before, it will also require Arthur’s skill to save themselves.
Pick up your copy of I Reside Here II today!
November 23, 2021
Divertimento, Book 4 in The Dark River series, is available today!
Pick up your copy at Amazon now! It’s available in paperback, hardbound, and Kindle formats!
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October 15, 2021
4th title in The Dark River series…Divertimento
Imagine something so horrible, so shocking, that simply looking at it can kill you…
You’re tied down…helpless…forced to see an unspeakable creature. The terrifying visual stimuli short-circuits your brain, causing organ failure and massive hemorrhages.
A serial killer is using such a device, brutally murdering people all over the United States. Derick Hall has been tasked with finding and stopping the perpetrator, but the more he learns about the killer’s victims, the more he wonders if he’s doing the right thing. In the Dark River, what seems noble is often not, and the forces that compel Derick to eliminate the killer become as questionable as the killer himself.
In this disturbing and fast-paced novel, as Derick finds himself wrapped up in an ugly hunt for a madman, he helps Deem seek answers to her questions – with disastrous consequences.
Divertimento follows Spirit Lake in the Suggested Reading Order.
CLICK HERE to pre-order your copy of Divertimento for Kindle!
October 13, 2021
Spirit Lake is Book 16 in The River series!
The distant screams raced over the surface of the water.
They weren’t just screams of pain. Something inhuman was happening on the small boat crossing the lake.
It was supposed to be a quiet fishing vacation, but Steven and his father Roy find themselves wrapped up in a deadly mystery that lurked at Spirit Lake long before Mount St. Helens erupted forty years ago. Back then, the eruption ended a string of strange disappearances. Now, more people have gone missing, and the monstrous secret behind the vanishings slowly reveals itself the deeper Steven and Roy dig into the past. Exposing the dormant evil will be only half the battle; they will have to defeat it using methods given by a dead man. It’s a race against time as they use every skill they possess to end the horrors of Spirit Lake.
Pick up your copy of Spirit Lake today! Available in Kindle and paperback formats.
