Kirjahaku

​"I bought the house," Butch says over the phone. Art Deats does not have to ask which one. His brother has been fixated on their childhood home deep in the swamps of lower Alabama ever since they fled the place in terror forty years ago. Has Butch lost his mind? The house is haunted. Let it rot And then the fatal request: "I want you to come down here and help me fix it up." Butch, do not do this. Do not wake the dead. Against his better judgment, Art leaves his safe and predictable New Jersey life to help his brother restore the place. While he struggles to make the house livable again, Art's long suppressed memories are triggered as he discovers terrible secrets about his family. And that something more than ghosts haunt them.

What is Butch thinking? He joined the Air Force to escape New Jersey and now, look, one day out of basic training and he's tooling around the Pine Barrens in his Mom's car searching for his best friend, Don. It's like he never left. And he's still in big trouble: Pee Sea, the most notorious drug dealer in the state wants his head on a pike; his stepfather wants the car back and Butch gone; and his old girlfriend, April, wants to personally remove any body parts Pee Sea doesn't. If Butch could just find Don, then they could spend one last crazy night running the shore and the lakes and the mysterious, otherworldly swamplands before Butch has to report in. If he could just find him... Looking for Don is a Bruce Springsteen album, a wild ride through 1970's south Jersey as Butch runs into bike gangs, Pineys, the Jersey Devil... and even an old ghost from his childhood. Looking for Don is the third novel of the Frank Vaughn trilogy.

The Ship is gone. So is the crew. Only Otto Boteman remains, living in a beautiful valley on a planet of two suns and two moons, every dog of his childhood in attendance, every need provided. Otto whiles away the days in peace and silence. It seems like Heaven... except God is not here. No one is. His doubts growing, Otto discovers a relic in the Ship's wreckage, setting in motion a series of cataclysms that drive Otto across an ever-changing world where he confronts old enemies, half-forgotten myths, and the very nature of existence.

Real vampires. Tasteful dismemberments. And delightful shivers from ten old-fashioned horror stories: a. The Moonlight in Genevieve's Eyes: unrequited love. Tragic. Just tragic.b. Choice: second chances are rare. Especially when you work for a vampire.c. The Flowers in Mr. Williams' Garden: neighborhood watch, ghost style.d. Cistern: zombies are horrible, until they hire you.e. The Elvish Woman: lovers who steal your soul. Literally.f. The Trumpet Inside the Warehouse: no one can hear you scream.g. King of the Bears: be victorious, or be dinner.h. Angel Eyes: man's best friend, when you forget your cross and garlic.i. The Absence of Land: sell the farm, pay the consequences.j. Face to Face: Mother's day. So, grab a crucifix and a shotgun, say a prayer, and come on in. But, leave a clearly marked trail. It's dark in here.