Lindsey Clarke's Wattpad-based (and featured!) online serial first popped onto my radar back when she was posting PLAYING DEAD, the first book in what has now ballooned into a trilogy.
At the time, I wrote the following about PLAYING DEAD in my Library of the Damned column in Rue Morgue #141 (Jan/Feb 2014):
"It's a wonder that Brit Lindsey Clarke hasn't been courted by publishers yet, as her 2013 vampire novel is a real page-turner. In this tale of an illicit affair born from a murder-for-hire plot sideways, our heroine Megan is unwillingly turned into a bloodsucker and thrust into the middle of a long-running war between the vamps and the Varulfur (a.k.a. werewolves). These fangers are anything but the primping, preening sissies that have risen to popularity recently, and are easily recommended to anyone who enjoys a hearty dose of cruelty and gore in their fiction."
That recommendation still stands, and in the year and a half since I penned it, Clarke has completed THE LOST, Book 2 in The Whitechapel Chronicles, and is now in the process of serializing Book 3, SAVAGE WINGS. These novels not only expand the scope of the vampire/werewolf conflict introduced in PLAYING DEAD, leaving a bloody trail of bodies in their wake, but also introduce angels, purgatory, and even spectre of the Devil himself.
All three novels - as well as several of Clarke's short horror stories - can, of course, be read for free right here on Wattpad.
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Books to Die For
No FicciónA book for book lovers, this is collection of reading recommendations and author interviews, as they appeared on Rue-Morgue.com, as well as my various #fabfictionfridays shout-outs on Wattpad. Here you'll find mainstream releases, Wattpad serials, s...
