House at the Edge of Darkness

"Something stirred in the window of the treehouse. She had enough but she couldn’t move her body. The world of light, math, and science was asleep with her snoring husband as the waking realities of permanent darkness presented themselves to her. A face as white and round as the full moon rose up in the treehouse window. It was the tortured face of a little boy with black shark’s eyes surrounded by thin black rings. His mouth formed a silent O as if caught in the act of mischief. Then the round face slowly sunk from sight.” House at the Edge of Darkness, the new horror-suspense novel by Ken Pomarco,features a young married couple, Ed and Amy Watts, two white-collar professionals struggling with their inability to have their own children, who leave New York City for the suburbs of Greenlawn, Long Island, only to become traumatized by extranormal events in and around their new home. Their pragmatic worldviews and sanity are attacked on a daily basis by increasingly horrific encounters with disembodied spirits lurking in a nature preserve behind their backyard. They are ultimately forced to uncover the mysteries that compel these tortured spirits to haunt and shatter their lives. Ken Pomarco’s influences include: Clive Barker, Cormac McCarthy, Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, James Dickey, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Elmore Leonard, Rod Serling, Ira Levin, Irvine Welsh, Edgar Allen Poe, David Lynch, Shirley Jackson, Frank Zappa, Oscar Wilde, Benjamin Britten, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Bloch, The Residents, Phillip K. Dick, Thomas Harris, and the Coen brothers. Earworm Publishing © 2021 All rights reserved Special thanks to Bobooks for cover design. Also to Nick and Mary from Word-2-Kindle formatting for all their invaluable help.

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