Occultober Day 20 Masks by Gilbert M. Stack

Occultober Day 20 Masks by Gilbert M. Stack

This morning, on the twentieth day of Occultober, I’d like to introduce my newest novel and the fourth book in my Preternatural series, Masks.

 

The vast majority of urban fantasies follow women who find themselves enmeshed in the world of the supernatural that forces them to discover or develop special abilities that they possess (often not knowing about them as the opening novel begins). They might be shape changers, witches, vampires, or have the power to raise the dead. I decided to go another route with Preternatural. The stories are told almost completely from the perspective of two individuals without any magical powers. One is Joanna Donovan, a tough as nails, extremely smart, police officer who was kicked out of Chicago for showing bias against vampires when she survived their attempt to murder her by shooting them with blessed ammunition. The other is Sam Winter, a nineteen-year-old girl who’s trying to raise money for college by taking photographs of the all-too-frequent preternatural incidents that happen in her small town. So, unlike most series, the heroines of Preternatural don’t have any special advantages when it comes to surviving the wide array of dangers they face in each book. They have to do it the old-fashioned way with brains and courage and skill.

 

In the previous novel, Hadrian’s Well survived the zombie apocalypse, but just because the dead are back in their graves doesn’t mean life is getting easier there. Record rainfalls have resulted in widespread flooding and something in the water is killing people. Or is it in the water? Part of the problem in Hadrian’s Well is that the preternatural isn’t always what it seems. Many wear masks that let them move about in human society like they’re normal people. Human threats also abound as politics within and without the town handicap Undersheriff Donovan as she struggles to track the monsters down. As the body count rises, will Donovan and her understrength department be able to look beyond the masks and stem another tide of terror?

 

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