Blackwater Val

Name: Blackwater Val
Brand: Crystal Lake Publishing
Price: 31.89 AUD

By: William Gorman

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Paperback | 23 April 2016

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488 Pages

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Richard Franklin has left his Midwestern roots behind to live on the coast of Maine with his family. But in the autumn of the year 2000, he must return to his Illinois birthplace on a sorrowful journey. His wife Michelle has been killed in New England by a hit-and-run driver who is never found, so back home he comes with her cremated remains, to fulfill a final wish and on her birthday scatter her ashes in the park along the river in Blackwater Valley—simply Blackwater Val to locals—the small town where they both grew up and fell in love.

With him he brings his six-year-old daughter Katie who still grieves for her lost mother: Katie, who can sometimes guess who’s going to be on the phone before it rings. Who can stop all the clocks in the house, and break up clouds in the sky with her mind, and heal sicknesses, and who sometimes sees things that aren’t there . . . people who are no longer alive. All gifts she inherited from her mother.

Only something isn’t quite right in the Val.

Sinkholes are opening up, revealing the plague pits the sleepy hamlet was built over in the 1830s, when malaria and cholera outbreaks ran riot. Mysterious bird and fish die-offs begin to occur, and Katie can see ghosts of the dead gathering all around. But what she can’t see is the charred, centuries-old malevolence which has been waiting for her, and wants her for its very own. Or the pale Sallow Man who haunts the town’s nighttime streets . . . or the river witch—another Blackwater Val, of sorts—each of whom will be drawn one by one into the nightmarish bloodletting about to take place.

Industry Reviews

"Behold the Blackwater Val, a riverside hamlet of healing and of retribution, a setting filled with dark secrets, mysticism, ghosts, and malevolent terrors. Behold Blackwater Val, William Gorman's debut novel that captures all this valley's chills and wonders in a wide-sweeping arc, which is as vast as the depth of ill-ease it plumbs." -Eric J. Guignard, winner of the Bram Stoker Award and finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award

"There are some things worse than curses ... Like never having discovered Wiliam Gorman. Dark, lyrical and genuinely disturbing, Blackwater Val is a must read for any fan of dark fiction." - Theresa Derwin, "Bringing you Horror, SF and Urban Fantasy since - her last cup of coffee" #QuantumCorsets

"A slow burn with sudden flashes of heat, Blackwater Val is a marathon march of fear that brings you in, holds you close and then, without warning, traps you, its grip frightening, dangerous and inescapable." - Jonathan Winn, Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast, Martuk...the Holy, Martuk...the Holy: Proseuche

"Blackwater Val is a contemporary horror novel that pays homage to the best work by the masters of the genre. The novel is rich in characterization, plot development, and the action is explosive. With one of the best endings in a horror novel that I've read in ages, Blackwater Val has leapt to the top spot in my favorite reads in 2016." - Tony Tremblay, Horror World.

"It's hard to believe BLACKWATER VAL is William Gorman's first published novel. It is written with a sure hand, clear prose, palpable emotion, and pitch-perfect suspense. The life of a small town is created beautifully, and the characters diverse and intriguing. Reverend Julian is a truly nasty villain, and the finale at Jasper Park is thrilling. Crystal Lake Publishing has another winner on their hands here." - Mark Allan Gunnells, author of FLOWERS IN A DUMPSTER and FORT

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