Gray Lake: A Gothic Novel of Crime and Supernatural Horror

Is it really possible for best friends Brian and Iggy to have witnessed a sleek black classic car cruising across the choppy surface of the water tonight?A hundred ghost stories swirl around the waters of Gray Lake and the strange, abandoned haunted house that looms on the swampy northern shore…But those aren’t the only mysteries digging under the skin of Green River…Like how did half of rage-fueled small-time crime boss Mike Menger’s face get so horribly burned?And why is his ragged crew of crank-head drug dealers rebelling?And who is the seductive, demonic Queen figure appearing in both Brian and Iggy’s dreams lately?And – perhaps most importantly – who is Maya, the gorgeous, enigmatic girl on the edge of psychosis who just moved to the lake’s ritzy, exclusive southern shore, a girl for whom Brian feels immediate, unbearable longing?These and other turbulent secrets will send Menger, Maya, Brian, Iggy and others hurtling headlong toward a deadly clash, a brutal showdown on the spectral shores of Gray Lake.Readers have described Bain’s novel as dark, gorgeous, challenging and chilling.David Bain is the author of the Will Castleton psychic detective and Riders of the Weird West series, plus many more books, series and stories. His work has appeared in Weird Tales and Strange Horizons and in collections alongside everyone from Joe R. Lansdale, Jack Ketchum, Brian Keene and Ray Bradbury to Charles Bukowski and Allen Ginsberg.

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