Crazy Time: A Bizarre Battle with Darkness and the Divine

CRAZY TIME: A BIZARRE BATTLE WITH DARKNESS AND THE DIVINE is a dark, surreal, contemporary supernatural fantasy that offers scares and suspense but seeks to terrify more on the level of concept, filling your head with thoughts and images that don’t fit right and perhaps shouldn’t even be.Bright, independent Lily Henshaw rides home with her friends Kris, Eric, and Mia after an evening of celebration and ends up in a nightmare. Two men in a pickup truck stalk them on the road. The truck sideswipes them, and they pull over—where the two men subdue them with a gun and a tire iron. One of the men announces that it's "crazy time," and a game of violence and murder begins. Lily barely escapes with her life.Months later, she is still traumatized, and after she and her boss Burt, who has always had a romantic interest in her, encounter strange religious imagery in an order at the print shop where they work, inexplicable and violent events, some of them with apparent religious significance, multiply her life's traumas. She begins to believe she is cursed, and, looking for help, she and Burt consult a psychic, a Satanist, an occult freelancer, and others, edging closer to the company that ordered the strange images. Lily loses so much that she thinks God might be out to get her. If He is, she might be out to get Him, too.

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"...not just a horror novel, but a surreal world... uncompromising... raw and bold... a powerful story... it does more than just scare."

From the Back Cover

Praise for L. Andrew Cooper's previous works:Leaping at Thorns: "...takes me back to... those sleepless nights of reading Stephen King's Night Shift and Clive Barker's Books of Blood. Cooper can scare, shock, and more than that, get you to think about things you never considered before, and perhaps were frightened even to contemplate. A real triumph!" — Michael West, bestselling author of Cinema of Shadows, Spook House, and The Wide Game Leaping at Thorns: "serious short story skills... from thought-provoking stories to down-right creepy tales" — Hellnotes Descending Lines: "a Grand Guignol cat-and-mouse tale... grisly... unsettling... an undeniably horrific thriller" — Kirkus Reviews Burning the Middle Ground: "highly recommend it for hardcore horror fans... its well-drawn characters, action and suspense will be the gory icing on the bloody cake!" — Target Audience Magazine

About the Author

L. Andrew Cooper specializes in the provocative, scary, and strange. His other published works include novels Burning the Middle Ground and Descending Lines; short story collections Leaping at Thorns and Peritoneum; poetry collection The Great Sonnet Plot of Anton Tick; non-fiction Gothic Realities and Dario Argento; co-edited fiction anthologies Imagination Reimagined and Reel Dark; and the co-edited textbook Monsters. He has also written more than 30 award-winning screenplays. After studying literature and film at Harvard and Princeton, he used his Ph.D. to teach about favorite topics from coast to coast in the United States. He now focuses solely on writing and lives in North Hollywood, California.

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