POE by J. Lincoln Fenn
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POE is the #1 Amazon Bestselling Horror and Fantasy novel by J. Lincoln Fenn. Described by Publisher's Weekly as, "a delightful, bravura piece of gothic pop," it won the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award for Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror.
It’s Halloween, and life is grim for twenty-three-year-old Dimitri Petrov. It’s the one-year anniversary of his parents’ deaths, he’s stuck on page one thousand of his Rasputin zombie novel, and he makes his living writing obituaries. But things turn from bleak to terrifying when Dimitri gets a last-minute assignment to cover a séance at the reputedly haunted Aspinwall Mansion.
There, Dimitri meets Lisa, a punk-rock drummer he falls hard for. But just as he’s about to ask her out, he unwittingly unleashes malevolent forces, throwing him into a deadly mystery. When Dimitri wakes up, he is in the morgue—icy cold and haunted by a cryptic warning given by a tantalizing female spirit.
As town residents begin to turn up gruesomely murdered, Dimitri must play detective in his own story and unravel the connections among his family, the Aspinwall Mansion, the female spirit, and the secrets held in a pair of crumbling antiquarian books. If he doesn’t, it’s quite possible Lisa will be the next victim.
"A delightful, bravura piece of gothic pop…fans of Neil Gaiman and the aforementioned Buffy will be immediately taken, but there’s a literate edge to the pyrotechnics that makes for an unlikely and welcome marriage between the spook story and literature of altogether less ectoplasmic substance." —Publisher's Weekly
"Hitting the high notes of multiple genres, her talent is wicked raw and proudly untamed. This is Fenn’s first novel [and] I can’t wait to see what comes next." —Bloody-Disgusting.com
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