Blog Tour: THE ROOTS RUN DEEP by C.M. Forest
THE ROOTS RUN DEEP
C.M. Forest
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GENRE: Horror Short Story Collection
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BLURB:
Dugfrom the twisted mind of C.M. Forest, the acclaimed author of Infested, comes acollection of 15 horror stories that will drag you into the abyss of fear anddespair.
Afast-food playland with a nightmarish secret, a greenhouse with a bug problem,a busload of kids lost in the woods, a trip through the solar system toinvestigate a strange comet, and many more.
Braceyourself for an unrelenting journey through a world where evil knows no bounds,and darkness consumes all.
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ExcerptThree:
“Lily!Your mom is not going to be happy with Daddy if I don’t get you home, honey.”
Robertdrummed his fingers on the lip of the plastic rim entrance to the playland. Heleaned into the opening and listened for any sound at all.
“Lily?”
Aterrible thought came to him. What if someone’s taken her?
Heshook his head to dislodge the idea from his brain. But a growing level ofunease, like some dank fungus flourishing in the darkest of places, kept thehorrible possibility present in his mind.
“Lily,this isn’t funny, baby.” Robert stuck his head farther into the hole, and hisvoice immediately echoed back at him, a dozen clones parroting his words.
Panic,the likes of which Robert wouldn’t have thought possible—certainly not soquickly anyway—arced through his body. He yelled again into the structure.
Nothing.
Noteven the smallest knock or scratch to indicate there was anything alive in theplayland at all.
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Question: Please describe one of yourfavorite scenes in your book and why you like it.
Answer: The first one that comes to mind isthe reveal of the people buried on the beach in What the Storm Brought In. Ican very much recall the moment that scene came into my head. I was foldinglaundry when, as clear as day, I had this image of a person walking on a beachand finding people buried in the sand. Not dead people, mind you, but livingpeople that very much wanted to remain buried. Why? I didn’t know at the time.But I thought such a discovery would be so bizarre, so off-putting, that I hadto see where it led. Now, with the story long finished, I still enjoy thatscene so much because it captured the quiet horror I was going for.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
C.M. Forest, also known as Christian Laforet, is the author of thenovel Infested, the novella We All Fall Before the Harvest, the short storycollection The Space Between Houses, as well as the co-author of theshort-story collection No Light Tomorrow. His short fiction has been featuredin several anthologies across multiple genres. A self-proclaimed horror movieexpert, he spent an embarrassing amount of his youth watching scary movies.When not writing, he lives in Ontario, Canada with his wife, kids, three catsand a pandemic dog named Sully who has an ongoing love affair with a blanket.
Website: http://www.ChristianLaforet.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorchristianlaforet
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christianlaforet/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/c_laforet
TikTok: http://www.tiktok.com/@christian_writes_horror
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