Billy Moon is a rock star, an idol to Goths around the world
in the late 1990s. The producer who made him a star, Trevor Rail, holds a
contract that requires Moon to create one more album for him. Rail is a creepy
dude that no one likes and who scares most people. Moon thinks Rail might just
be the devil himself. And now Rail has called in his chip, and takes Moon to a
secluded compound in the mountains, with a studio in an old church, to force
him to write and record a new album in record time.
Moon is willing, but his mind is not all on the music. He’s
dealing with the sudden death of his father, and strange things are happening
in the church, which serves as Moon as living quarters as well as studio.
Legend has it the church is haunted, and it’s starting to look like it’s true. Rail
doesn’t believe it, though; he makes a point of telling others that Moon is
under stress and unbalanced. But Moon isn’t the only one seeing and hearing odd
things; Jake Campbell, fresh out of college assistant sound man, is witnessing
it, too, as well as the terror that is crazy man Rail.
This is very well done horror. Part psychological and part
supernatural, it isn’t until the end that the reader gets to see where the
boundaries of each are. Tension is sustained throughout the book, and the end
is unexpected. I hope this book gets picked up by Amazon and other distributors
so more people can enjoy it. Right now it seems to only be available from the
publisher, JournalStone http://journal-store.com/fiction/the-devil-of-echo-lake/
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