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The Long Nights
Paperback
Series: Joe Kellerman, Book 1
Publisher: Tom Mock
Published: Jan 15 2024
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Troubled artist by day, even more troubled occult specialist by night - a psychic searches a vampire's mind to find his victims before they wake in this 90s retro urban fantasy.
But some minds are more treacherous than others.
A cry of pain, hard and desperate, tore through Carthage City one night ...
The Nightwalker Killings: bodies drained and tucked away in the abandoned corners of Carthage City Oldtown. The oddity of their stalled decay was a mystery ... until the latest victim woke in a fury of teeth and claws. Joe Kellerman, an artist with psychic abilities who works with a group of occult Specialists, finds himself face to face with the vampire known as the Nightwalker. To stop the vampire's spreading contagion of death, Joe must search the killer's memories to find his victims before any more wake to feed. But some minds are more treacherous than others ... Haunted by visions of the vampire's past and with a photojournalist femme fatale suspicious of his involvement in the gruesome murders, Joe is stretched thin between his dissolving personal life and his search for the missing. Is there anyone left to save, or will Joe finally go too far into the dark to find his way out again?
Awards
- #1 Amazon Bestseller
- Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off 8 Semi-Finalist
- 2021 Indies Today Awards: Runner-Up in Horror
- Indie Ink Awards (nominated)
- Best Setting
- Best Morally Gray Character
- Best use of Tropes
- Side Character MVP
For Mature Audiences
Content Warnings:
Drug use, smoking, suicidal thoughts, stalking, strong language, sex, sexual abuse, and violence
Vampires, psychic, black magic, low magic, early 90s, noir, crime, atmospheric, dark, gritty, morally gray, fast-paced, psychological thriller, jack-the-ripper serial killer, hunting the hunter, magic library, restaurant, abandoned places, broken relationship, memory loss, LGBTQ+, coffee, art, and jazz
PRAISE FOR THE LONG NIGHTS!
This book is as solid as a diamond! And as brilliant, too.― Douglas Lumsden, author of A Troll Walks Into A Bar
A slow-burn creepy noir-fest ... It's brilliant and it's dark and it's poetic and it's addictive, and boy, is some of the writing here simply astonishing for a debut. I fell headfirst into this moody read in a way I rarely do.
― EL Crocker, author of Lightfall
Inventive, clever, unique in its meticulousness and maturity... Mock has a masterful grasp on language. Delightfully strange and intoxicatingly dangerous... a dark world of psychological thrills.
― RC Gibson, Indies Today
― PL Stuart, author of The Drowned Kingdom Saga, for Before We Go Blog Atmospheric and deliciously dark.
― Peter Hartog, author of Bloodlines Visceral and deeply emotional ...
― from Goodreads This book raised the bar on dark urban fantasy for me - it has everything I want from a story.
― from Goodreads
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