Passover

On each full moon, suddenly the firstborn sons of Zebulon, Virginia are being murdered, house by house, in bizarre ways. At the Sheltons’ home, the tormented ghost of a hate-crime victim attacks the blood-smeared windows and doors, seeking entrance. These baffling events stem from atrocities committed and endured during the Holocaust. Now, in Zebulon, neighbors fall one by one. Scarecrows become automatons whose fingers spout flame. Biblical plagues afflict the town. Finally, only the Shelton family remains. Their only hope is a dedicated county sheriff, a grandmother’s occult wisdom, and deciphering a chain of supernatural phenomena.

Passover is both supernatural thriller and domestic drama. Can this trapped, dysfunctional family’s embittered members learn to work together in time to save themselves from evil?

Pages: 282
Pub Date: 05-01-2015
Softcover: 18.95 978-1-94019-293-2
Ebook: 7.99 978-1-63393-047-6

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The reviews are in…

“A mesmerizing mix of serial horror, religious mythology, and recent history. A contemporary supernatural thriller to stay up late and read, with the lights on.”

—Lenore Hart, author of THE RAVEN’S BRIDE and BLACK RIVER
“Aggressive spirits, ancient rituals, dark humor, and poetic settings turn a quiet town otherworldly. An entertaining, creative departure, PASSOVER adds spice to the contemporary ghost-story ouvre.”

—Carol MacAllister, author of THE BLACKMOOR TALES.
“Anagnost and Arthur are a very scary combination! Passover has some of the best writing I’ve seen in years. Not to be missed.”

—David Poyer, author of Ghosting and The Cruiser

Aphrodite Anagnost also writes as Frances Williams; her first novel is Memoir of a Death Angel. She’s been an actor and a horse trainer, and is now a country doctor and medical examiner in Virginia. She’s also an editor at Xenophon Press and a Rhode Island native. Her parents hosted Las Vegas acts there in their barn-turned-restaurant, the Country Inn. Passover is set in her 1923 home in Franktown sharing the neighborhood with a house so haunted that paranormal investigators decline to show up without a priest.

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Robert P. Arthur has published drama, fiction, and poetry. He’s won awards in all three genres. He grew up in a Virginia town not far from mythical Zebulon, and is a professor in the M.F.A. creative writing program at Wilkes University. He lives in Virginia Beach.

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