Product Description

"One of the best supernatural thrillers of recent years." --John Connolly

A new master of terror reigns supreme. And in his most horrifying novel yet, the clash between good and evil explodes in an apocalyptic showdown few will survive...

From A Funfest...

Each year, the residents of Pine Deep host the Halloween Festival, drawing tourists and celebrities from across the country to enjoy the deliciously creepy fun. Those who visit the small Pennsylvania town are out for a good time, but those who live there are desperately trying to survive...

To A Bloodfest

For a monstrous evil lives among them, a savage presence whose malicious power has grown too powerful even for death to hold it back. Only a handful of brave souls stand against the King of the Dead and a red wave of destruction. Daylight is fading and a bad moon is rising over Pine Deep. Keep watching the shadows...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #181579 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780786018178
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

A very bad Halloween
Multiple Stoker Award winner Jonathan Maberry pulls off the near impossible in his latest novel, Bad Moon Rising (Pinnacle, 6 May 2008), the last in the Pine Deep trilogy - a truly satisfying ending to a horror epic. Far too often readers of multiple book series are left feeling just a little dissatisfied with the ending. That is not the case with Bad Moon Rising. Maberry, a highly talented new voice in storytelling, continues the breakneck pace of the first two novels, as the town of Pine Deep, Pennsylvania unknowingly awaits the Red Wave - an attack by a range of monsters as convincing as any in horror fiction. All on Halloween, in the town known as 'America's Haunted Holidayland'.

The cast of characters - good, evil, some possibly both - developed in the first two novels, Ghost Road Blues (Horror Writers Association's Stoker winner for Superior Achievement in a First Novel for 2006) and Dead Man's Song is fully utilised as the tension mounts to the point where the reader may find it necessary to place the book aside for some hours (a problem I had last encountered decades ago with Stephen King's Salem's Lot). There is incredible mayhem and death in this book - agonisingly described at times - but all in context and all to a level of realism often missed in the genre. Maberry's diverse background in the martial arts and other areas on the edges of our culture has been given full rein, proving the maxim a writer should write what they know.

Perhaps the most refreshing aspect of the trilogy is the way Maberry has worked in his deep knowledge of vampire and werewolf folkore to provide original takes on each of these monsters, which have been so abused and overused in recent fiction and film. As he points out in his Author's Note it is not often we read of a ghost who just doesn't know how to be a ghost. Enjoyably, here is a writer who convincingly tips his hat to some of horror's icons - both fictional and real.

One of the most evil villians recently created - Ubel Griswold - shares top billing with the brutal killer Karl Ruger, the cruelly violent Vic Wingate. Iron Mike Sweeney, a 14 year old who is not at all what he seems, the ghostly Bone Man, Malcom Crow, Val Guthrie, Saul Weinstock and the other heroes all appear fully formed and true to their destiny. Maberry plays no tricks - even the appropriately named Mayor, Terry Wolfe, acts out his role with not a hint of being out of character, or destiny.

But in the end, it's the story that counts - and this is a whopper. A mini-series would not do it justice. Over three books readers slowly learn to love and loathe many of the characters, to mourn their loss, to fear the villains and to imagine themselves in some of the situations. This empathy is a gift of the writer to the reader and is part of the spell that weaves it way from page one of Ghost Road Blues through the Epilogue of Bad Moon Rising.

Maberry is undoubtedly one of horror's rising new voices. He's prolific - one top of these novels he's producing four non-fiction volumes in as many years - and will publish a new series of bio-terrorism novels starting in 2009. Now's the time to get in on the ground floor - start this trilogy with Ghost Road Blues and you'll most likely be hooked.

Good series
Having finally picked up and read, "Ghost Road Blues", I found myself hooked on the characters and having to know what happens to them after then end of the book. So I bought Jonathan Maberry's last two books in the series, "Dead Man's Song" and "Bad Moon Rising". While he gives a lot of life to his characters, I felt he easily could have summed up the story in two novels, rather than three. In places the plot line started to drag and go on just too long. All in all, it was a good read though and I'll definitely be watching for more from this author in the future.

I do not like horror!!!
But I loved this series. A friend talked me into reading Ghost Road Blues. I could not put the book down. Still dont' like horror,but I am waiting on the next story from Pine Deep.