Ken Stark

The news stories are lighting up as bands of animals are attacking and bringing death to communities around the world. However, the town of Keeter’s Bluff is facing the closest and ultimate horrific threat to its humanity, as Sheriff Cooper and a small group seek to understand what is happening and figure out how to stop the devious ecological horror. While the initial horror finds its roots in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” the ultimate danger is a much more sly horror that must be faced. The underlying mythology may be harder for some readers to comprehend, and other readers may find some ethical concern with the ultimate horror protagonists, but absolute horror fans will be more willing to “want to play the game.”… (altro)

In the small town of Arcadia Falls, Tyler, despite his insecure nerd status at high school, finds himself making a friendship with Amanda, a cute girl who just moved into town and is very open at making friends across the clique spectrum. However, Arcadia Falls hides a dark secret, one that is even removed from the memories of its residents. When Tyler inadvertently finds himself in this dark, abandoned part of the town, which arouses the mysterious creatures to go after him, he and Amanda with their cadre of friends must rise up to fight the danger. This young adult paranormal thriller sets out on a roller coaster ride of a tale told through Tyler’s narrative. The reader must patiently wait through the opening chapters that mainly works through the teenage angst of high school culture, as a few clues pop up about the back mystery. Then, the reader is provided a few shakes, turns, and scares, when Tyler comes upon the ghostly, abandoned area of Old Town. But, the ride turns into an action fest of loops and thrills, as the teen knights create their weapons and do battle with the mighty camouflaged monsters. It provides a good journey of scares and thrills for YA horror fans.… (altro)

For Mason, it already was a depressing time, flying back to San Francisco from a solo vacation immediately following a sudden breakup with his girlfriend, but red flags began to arise when he woke up during the flight to discover stress and pandemonium as everybody else on the flight, including the crew members had suddenly gone blind. Luckily, since Mason could see, he was able to help the crew land the plane, saving the day. Then, a few days later, when Mason finally left his apartment to head to work, he discovered the next stage of this strange disease was to turn the blind victims into savage animals with hyper-sensitive hearing, seeking to maul and eat any other living thing they can catch, which has turned the streets of the city into apocalyptic pandemonium. Life has now become a desperate game of survival, where trust and split-second decision making takes on a higher level of delicacy, especially when death of an infected human only leads to stage three. Told totally through the limited omniscient view of Mason, this zombie horror thriller produces lots of fear and action, which will surely satisfy the most ardent “Walking Dead” fan. The action is well described, and Mason’s inner feelings of fear, loss, and hope are well written, especially when he takes on the additional challenge of helping eleven-year-old Mackenzie, despite her displaying the blinding symptoms of stage one. However, the plot structure is still basically a straight-forward zombie apocalypse horror survival tale that touches all of the points of a few characters battling and hiding from a world of monsters.… (altro)