Brandon Massey
Autor/a de Dark Corner
Sobre l'autor
Sèrie
Obres de Brandon Massey
Dark Dreams: A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers (2004) — Editor, Contributor — 62 exemplars
Obres associades
Proverbs for the People: Contemporary African-American Fiction (2003) — Col·laborador — 36 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1973-06-09
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Llocs de residència
- Zion, Illinois, USA
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Membres
Ressenyes
This was my second book by Brandon Massey and I really enjoyed the atmospheric ghost story as it wrapped its tendrils around me!
Len and Olivia Bowden move into what they thought would be their dream home along with their daughter, Kennedy. With packed boxes laying around the house and the Bowden's trying to settle in to their new home, a stranger knocks on their door that changes their lives forever.
An elderly gentleman dressed in vintage clothes including a top hat tells them that the home belongs to him and that they had bought his home fraudulently. He tells them that they must leave the house within three days or suffer the consequences.
At first they think that he is just a senile old man and they decide to ignore his ultimatum, but then things start happening in the house. Creaks, cold drafts of air, footsteps, doors opening and closing. The basement also holds a mysterious locked trapped door that make the Bowden's wonder what is really below their house.
What they thought was their dream house ends up being a slow descent into hell as they have to endure not only the ghostly things happening within the house, but they also have to endure voodoo that the stranger has invoked upon them.
This was a very creepy book and the more I became involved reading it, the more I couldn't put it down. Parts of the book were a little scary and it probably didn't help me much by reading it in the dark in the middle of the night!
Giving it four stars for keeping me "spooked".… (més)
Len and Olivia Bowden move into what they thought would be their dream home along with their daughter, Kennedy. With packed boxes laying around the house and the Bowden's trying to settle in to their new home, a stranger knocks on their door that changes their lives forever.
An elderly gentleman dressed in vintage clothes including a top hat tells them that the home belongs to him and that they had bought his home fraudulently. He tells them that they must leave the house within three days or suffer the consequences.
At first they think that he is just a senile old man and they decide to ignore his ultimatum, but then things start happening in the house. Creaks, cold drafts of air, footsteps, doors opening and closing. The basement also holds a mysterious locked trapped door that make the Bowden's wonder what is really below their house.
What they thought was their dream house ends up being a slow descent into hell as they have to endure not only the ghostly things happening within the house, but they also have to endure voodoo that the stranger has invoked upon them.
This was a very creepy book and the more I became involved reading it, the more I couldn't put it down. Parts of the book were a little scary and it probably didn't help me much by reading it in the dark in the middle of the night!
Giving it four stars for keeping me "spooked".… (més)
This was a very good book! I didn't quite know what to expect as I have never read this author before, but what a great surprise as I was hooked after a few pages!
The book started out a little slow, but once I really got into it, then it just took off into a fascinating, creepy ride.
Andrew Wilson is a mystery writer and writes under the name of Mark Justice for a series of books. He has about anything he could possibly want with a house in Atlanta and great career. He doesn't have a woman in his life, except for his good friend Carmen, but he doesn't see her as anything but just a friend.
All that changes when he meets a woman named Mika and she wants him to be her soul mate. He plays along with her, thinking that she will be no more than a one night stand, but she ends up wanting more of him and she pursues him to no end. Nothing will stand in her way of Andrew and her as she goes to extreme lengths to have Andrew all to herself.
What he doesn't know is that Mika is not a normal person and things start happening that somehow ties into a haunting in his house. In the meantime, Andrew's father is having nightmares of a haunted mansion that involves Andrew, but his father will not mention it to Andrew as they are trying to mend a father/son relationship that has been strained for a few years. As time goes on though, his father decides that he needs to let Andrew know about his nightmares, which ties up the loose ends of everything going on with Andrew.
Thoughts:
The author did a great job of catching that horror atmospheric feel throughout the whole book and the characters just fell right into place.
This book was a mystery/horror grabber as the more I became involved in the storyline, the more I couldn't put the book down! There were a lot of twists and turns that I didn't see coming!
I will be reading more by this author in the future and I am giving this book four stars.
(I do have a warning: there is a small amount of graphic sex in the beginning of the book and there is some gory parts later in the book, but none of that deterred me from reading it.)… (més)
The book started out a little slow, but once I really got into it, then it just took off into a fascinating, creepy ride.
Andrew Wilson is a mystery writer and writes under the name of Mark Justice for a series of books. He has about anything he could possibly want with a house in Atlanta and great career. He doesn't have a woman in his life, except for his good friend Carmen, but he doesn't see her as anything but just a friend.
All that changes when he meets a woman named Mika and she wants him to be her soul mate. He plays along with her, thinking that she will be no more than a one night stand, but she ends up wanting more of him and she pursues him to no end. Nothing will stand in her way of Andrew and her as she goes to extreme lengths to have Andrew all to herself.
What he doesn't know is that Mika is not a normal person and things start happening that somehow ties into a haunting in his house. In the meantime, Andrew's father is having nightmares of a haunted mansion that involves Andrew, but his father will not mention it to Andrew as they are trying to mend a father/son relationship that has been strained for a few years. As time goes on though, his father decides that he needs to let Andrew know about his nightmares, which ties up the loose ends of everything going on with Andrew.
Thoughts:
The author did a great job of catching that horror atmospheric feel throughout the whole book and the characters just fell right into place.
This book was a mystery/horror grabber as the more I became involved in the storyline, the more I couldn't put the book down! There were a lot of twists and turns that I didn't see coming!
I will be reading more by this author in the future and I am giving this book four stars.
(I do have a warning: there is a small amount of graphic sex in the beginning of the book and there is some gory parts later in the book, but none of that deterred me from reading it.)… (més)
This anthology is truly a guilty pleasure and privilege. I found this author earlier this year and read all of the books that he authored and throughly enjoyed them. He didn't have much to do with the actual writing of these stories so it took a lot of "getting used to". Most were very well written...most were long enough to be interesting...all had elements of terror that could play tricks on an over active imagination. In other words darn near perfect!
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 23
- També de
- 3
- Membres
- 727
- Popularitat
- #34,931
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 27
- ISBN
- 87
- Llengües
- 2
- Preferit
- 4
Glad I discovered this Author and now have his other books on my to be read list.