Bøger af Joseph J Christiano

Most folks in Deacon's Landing, Connecticut are familiar with the urban legend of Denham, a narrow dead-end street out in the sticks whose residents are said to worship Satan. Spence believed the stories when he was younger. He even ventured there with his friends on many occasions to see if they could spot any nefarious rituals or signs of occult activity. A few times they even worked up the courage to sneak up to the main house, a Victorian mansion named Greystone Manor. Aside from a few unusual details they never found any positive signs of devil worship. Eventually Spence grew up and the legend of Denham became just another memory of his wasted teenaged years...until his sister Katie accepts a position at Greystone Manor.Katie Spencer is hired to be a servant in the seemingly never-ending house. She and her fellow new hire, Amanda Regan, learn what is expected of them from their new bosses, Mr. Exton and Ms. Palmer. Greystone's owners, the impossibly old William and Arthur Morley, are returning from abroad and a new staff is needed to see to their needs. Katie figures she can earn enough money during the Morleys' visit to finally escape Deacon's Landing forever.When Spence learns of his sister's new job he gathers together his old friends and plans a return to Denham. Just to be sure Katie is safe, or so he tells himself. It's the perfect excuse to see his old crew again and relive an exciting, if pointless, time from their younger years.What Spence and his friends encounter at Denham is more than mere legend. They soon findthemselves in a fight for their lives against an enemy none of them truly believed existed. Spence will have to venture into the last place he ever expected, inside the giant Victorian itself, to find his sister.At long last the Lords of Greystone have returned home...

It was a day unlike any other in the town of Deacon's Landing, Connecticut. It was the day Kenny Atkins cornered Matty Anderson in the locker room on what turned out to be the final day of classes at Deacon's Landing Middle School. When the school is destroyed by fire, the teachers speak in hushed tones of "Dark Annie" Carlson, one of their own who vanished mysteriously shortly before the start of the school year. For nearly three decades the school remains dark and empty. Now the school is rebuilt and ready to accept students once again. A series of seemingly random events arouses the suspicions of police officer Matthew Anderson. Cryptic warnings from unrelated accident and assault victims and the return of Anderson's childhood nemesis bring the legend of Dark Annie back to the forefront. Anderson confides in two old friends, Brian Murphy and Holly Wayne, and together they must face the secret horror buried beneath the idyllic facade of Deacon's Landing. In order to save the town's children they will be forced to confront the truth, the legend and the terror of Dark Annie.

Old Ghosts is Joseph J. Christiano's first collection of novellas and takes you from the darkest days of World War II Europe to the idyllic New England town of Deacon's Landing. In these six assembled tales of terror, you will witness how an act of unspeakable evil dooms the crew of a crashed German bomber in "emet." A rookie trucker takes to a dangerous mountain pass and comes face to face with the legend of "The Highwayman." A suicidal woman who has lost her family and her arm experiences a bizarre and terrifying form of "Phantom Pain." An online gamer enters a world of horror when he is granted the ability to play his favorite game in "God Mode." A professional assassin known only as "The Frenchman" gets in over his head when he takes a job for a mob boss. And an elderly man returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral and encounters some "Old Ghosts." Whether he is telling stories of the frozen battlefields of a devastated Europe or the mundane anxiety of trying to impress a new employer, Joseph J. Christiano demonstrates his knowledge of what scares you and puts that knowledge to good use in these six novellas.