Book of the Month
The NOVEMBER Book Of The Month Is:
The Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert
Blackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of New Haven. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The Scarecrow. Now, on the eve of the book’s release, the terrible story within begins to unfold in real life.
Detective Mills arrives at the scene of a gruesome murder: a family butchered and bundled inside cocoons stitched from corn husks, and hung from the rafters of a barn, eerily mirroring the opening of Bookman’s latest novel. When another family is killed in a similar manner, Mills, along with his daughter, rookie detective Samantha Blue, is determined to find the link to the book—and the killer—before the story reaches its chilling climax.
As the series of “Scarecrow crimes” continues to mirror the book, Ben quickly becomes the prime suspect. He can’t remember much from the night he finished writing the novel, but he knows he wrote it in The Atrium, his grandfather’s forbidden room full of numbered books. Thousands of books. Books without words.
As Ben digs deep into Blackwood’s history he learns he may have triggered a release of something trapped long ago—and it won’t stop with the horrors buried within the pages of his book.
👀 The Twisted Retreat Exclusive Edition includes:
-Redesigned dust jacket by @devforst including foiling
-Hardcover illustration by @alworkk
-Stenciled edges by @daydreamstd_
-Endpages (different front and back) with gloss by @congore_art
-Ribbon bookmark
-Art in collaboration with the author
-Signed by the author
BOOK 2:
Wildefell by H.B. Diaz
Ex-pagan and reluctantly clairvoyant reporter, Sara Wilde, thinks she escaped the curse of Wildefell Manor by planting shallow roots in Savannah. But Wildefell, her family’s historic estate in idyllic Beaufort, South Carolina, still harbors a lurid secret.
When the brutal murders of her sister and grandmother send Sara back up the groaning steps of Wildefell, she discovers their bodies arranged in a manner reminiscent of Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue. As corpses turn up all across the city, all mirroring victims in Gothic-era stories, and Sara begins to receive cryptic messages from the murderer, she realizes the curse blighting her family tree is branching out.
Plagued by premonitions of the murders and the grotesque spirits of long-dead ancestors, Sara fears the only place she belongs is with the husk of her grief-stricken mother, in the asylum.
To break a story centuries in the making and stop a vicious killer, Sara must exhume the secrets of Wildefell Manor, or she’ll risk losing both her family’s legacy and her own mind.
👀 The Twisted Retreat Exclusive Edition includes:
Redesigned dust jacket by the Twisted Team
-Alternative cover design on the reverse jacket by the Twisted Team
-Fabric hardcover case with foil stamped design by @veronicalexgm
-Stenciled edges by the Twisted Team
-Illustrated endpage design by @missyozart
-Cemetery dance title in collaboration with the author
-Signed by the author