C.W. Anderson
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C.W. Anderson
Writer, artist, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York.
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The Rain People!
“…a picture of despair and terror that’s difficult to forget.”—Kirkus Reviews
“For as long as I can remember, I wanted darkness.”
Julia Benson awakens in a hospital bed, distraught to learn that she has just attempted suicide. After a brief psychiatric stay, she tries to resume her normal life—or what passes for one. She cannot remember the last two weeks, and her apartment is a mess of trash, drugs, and far worse.
Memories resurface of another, darker Julia, and of a sinister—yet alluring—presence who seduced her to the edge of death, a pale man with a ravaged beauty. Worse, these apparitions appear to be haunting her still, warping her mind and fouling her attempts at a fresh start. Has she gone insane, or is there an Other Julia living inside of her? A fragment of her personality who is now the forbidden lover to a demon—a suicide demon.
A demon who is back to finish what they started…
Fusing the religious horror of William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist with the dark fantasy of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, Suicide Demon is a Dantean descent into the hell realms of self-harm, demonic possession, sub-personalities, and fallen angels.
“Deep down you already know: you are mine. You belong to me. No one gets away from me.”
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“A haunting supernatural thriller blending splattery carnage with creepy derangements of the soul.” —Kirkus Reviews
In the fog-drenched hills of San Francisco, siblings Lizzy and Dylan were once inseparable. It was the only way they could survive a childhood of horror and evil…until one final bloodstained night left them near-dead orphans.
Now in their twenties, each has taken a wildly different path through life: Lizzy is ambitious and polished, compulsively driven to escape her haunted past and the forbidden truth that still whispers in her soul, while her younger brother Dylan hitch-hikes across the country, homeless and half-insane, obsessed with a return of that dark realm and the sinister presence that hungered for them.
But something ominous is happening in the City by the Bay. Whispers of a strange fog that floods the streets at night, of beckoning shadows and dreams of a crumbling manor aloft over the city. As Dylan had feared, the Dark Lady has returned at last, and soon there will be nowhere for brother or sister to hide.
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“It rained last night, and I was afraid.”
An almost biblical rainfall comes to Issaquah, Washington, and Charlie Healy’s two young boys become captivated with a new game they call Rain Boys. In their boots and jackets, they splash through the flooded neighborhood while Charlie stays inside, working. But when the boys and a friend take their game up nearby Cougar Mountain, the tale they bring back is as strange as it is disturbing.
For in that colorless water-world, they claim to have met new friends: the Rain People. They flew out of the clouds to play, could turn invisible—and didn’t want them to leave. Imagination, surely, but the boys become obsessed, even secretive. Until one afternoon when Charlie sees them fleeing the misty forest, his eldest son drenched in blood.
Until the Rain People follow the Rain Boys home…
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