Robert A Brown

Seventh-sense possessor Robert A. Brown (The Cleansing) moves from the haunted hills of Arkansas to the bustling metropolis of pre-World War II Washington, D.C., a city laced with mystery and intrigue, magic and menace. In no time at all, Robert finds himself neck-deep in a whirlpool of horror, fending off a German werewolf, a hideous ancient Japanese spirit, and a profusion of ape-creatures with saucer-like eyes. And that doesn't even count the more prosaic antagonists, including a whole division of young Nazi Bund members intent on seeing him dead.This is the most action- and horror-packed entry from Robert A. Brown and John Wooley yet. Beauty and the Bund comes with an evocative new cover by Jonathan Wooley, John's son, who has been busy for the past several years making a name for himself in the worldwide gaming scene, creating tokens and other special art and artifacts through Team Covenant, the world's No. 1 retailer of independent tabletop games. His creations have enhanced such popular titles as Netrunner, Arkham Horror, and Marvel Champions.

Some secrets are best left buried...As The Cleansing trilogy roars to a conclusion, trouble and terror assail WPA Folklore Project writer Robert A. Brown from all sides, boiling up in a cauldron of horror that threatens to destroy both him and his extraordinary "seventh sense."This concluding volume of the three-book series, following Seventh Sense and Satan's Swine, finds Robert on the trail of eldritch secrets thought to be long buried in the remote town of Mackaville, Arkansas, a place with a shocking past that Robert finally unearths - to his everlasting horror.Set in 1939 and told via letters sent to his friend John Wooley, Sinister Serpent completes the trilogy that has earned praise from critics and readers for its vivid evocation of the best of the weird-pulp literature of the '30s. Will Robert Brown and his seventh sense survive a final all-out, mind-numbing attack?Praise For The Cleansing Trilogy"The Cleansing will bear mentioning in the same breath with Lovecraft and Robert Bloch and Robert E. Howard, with as compelling a voice as any such Architects of the Weird."- Michael H. Price, author of the Forgotten Horrors series"...like entering a time machine and reading a great pulp magazine from the 1930's "- Bruce Hershenson, dealer and publisher"Out of place, stranded, surrounded by secrets - you had me at creepy little town....Writers have been telling horror stories through letters since Mary Shelley set quill to paper. Robert A. Brown and John Wooley bring back that quaint old object, the typewriter, and find it haunted by history." - Ron Wolfe, author of Hellraiser and Knights of the Living Dead

1939. Welcome back to Mackaville, Arkansas, a small town in the Ozarks where nothing is what it seems. Strangers are suspect. Animals are restless. And the townsfolk harbor horrible secrets.WPA Folklore Project worker Robert Brown-the man with the extrasensory powers he calls his "seventh sense" - finds himself surrounded by black magic. After a brutal rattlesnake attack, Robert faces an invasion of feral hogs - including two that turn out to be more than animals. Unsure who he can trust, Robert escapes to St. Louis with David Garland Jefferson, a man obsessed by the unspeakable terrors of his past.The unearthly horror continues in this second volume of the critically acclaimed trilogy, The Cleansing. Robert must tap all his friends and every power he possesses if he hopes to survive the impending doom closing in on him-and everyone else in Mackaville, Arkansas.

In 1939, as war clouds mushroom around Depression-era America, former Civilian Conservation Corps worker Robert Brown finds himself with a new government job- gathering tales from ancient denizens of the Ozark Mountains. Possessed of an extrasensory intuitive skill he calls his seventh sense, Robert is no stranger to magic or the preternatural. He is, however, woefully underprepared for the animalistic horrors he discovers on this assignemnt--and the ancient horrors he unleashes."A thin line, indeed, between Arkham and Arkansas - between the Lovecraftian concept of a cosmically plagued village and The Cleansing and its view of a rustic Southern region infested with a species of compromised humanity that might give H.P. Lovecraft pause. Robert A. Brown and John Wooley, natural-born storytellers with a sense of history and its ghastlier undercurrents, deliver an account of compassionate determination in opposition to the most appalling material circumstances. The Cleansing will bear mentioning in the same breath with Lovecraft and Robert Bloch and Robert E. Howard, with as compelling a voice of originality as any such Architects of the Weird. And why does the termMachiavellian spring to mind when I hear the name of Mackaville, Arkansas?"- Michael H. Price, Forgotten Horrors

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