Watch Party

Cooney continues to create surreal fiction and unforgettable characters. From the opening paragraph to the last sentence, he keeps readers engaged, terrified and completely entertained.

-Jonathan Herbert, award winning author of Chasing Palms and Leeward Run

Watch Party follows a group of teens who get together down the street from a house where an exorcism is rumored to soon take place. Dazed and Confused meets The Exorcist only instead of witnessing the events firsthand we are forced to experience them as spectators. That is, until the priest quickly retreats from the home and Adam Tarkin, the supposedly possessed boy, scurries out an upstairs window and gets loose in the neighborhood. And just like that, spectators become unwilling participants.

Through a perfect balance of comedy, horror and tragedy we learn the history of the land where the neighborhood was built. Of an old farmer by the name of Calm Jeffrey and the terrible circumstances that befell his family. All leading to a cataclysmic shit storm of a night where the characters must fight to survive.