Thunder Rise trilogy now complete!

HERTFORD, N.C. -- A family seeking only the peace of a summer vacation gets terror instead as a mother and her young children are slowly drawn into the malevolence of a long-dead madman in G. Wayne Miller’s  SUMMER PLACE, the final volume in the Thunder Rise horror trilogy, just published by U.S. horror powerhouse Macabre Ink/Crossroad Press.

“With publication of Summer Place, the supernatural circle drawn around this mysterious mountain is complete,” said Macabre Ink/Crossroad Press publisher David Niall Wilson. “Miller delivers the same finely crafted characters -- and deftly paced unfolding of evil building to terrifying climax -- that is the hallmark of all three novels in the Thunder Rise trilogy.”

Best-known for his critically acclaimed non-fiction, Miller has been praised for his horror writing since William Morrow/HarperCollins published THUNDER RISE: A Novel of Terror, first in the Thunder Rise trilogy. Miller’s short stories have been featured in collections with Stephen King, Peter Straub, Rick Hautala, Ramsey Campbell, Gahan Wilson and others.

SUMMER PLACE features politician Ken Callahan, who is beginning to think his wife, Carol, is on the verge of going crazy. Her insect phobia seems to be intensifying, and it threatens repercussions not just for him and their two young children — but also his political ambitions. All he needs as the campaign heats up is for Carol to lose it in some public fashion.

And so Ken is pleased that his wife and two young children can spend the summer in their new vacation home, a beautiful old Victorian on acres of woods in Massachusetts’ beloved Berkshire County. Carol hopes to resume the promising artistic career she dropped when she became a mother -- and maybe even rekindle relations with her husband.

But the summer place lies in the shadow of Thunder Rise, in what Carol will discover is a vortex of malevolence made worse by the mysterious doings of the long-dead previous owner, the eccentric loner Myron Valkenburgh. Something to do with insects, Carol learns, as dragonflies seem to act as sentinels and the family dog dies a terrible death in a swarm of yellow jackets... and what started as escape spirals down into dark madness that the innocent young children Caleb and Sarah instinctively sense.

Last in the Thunder Rise trilogy, SUMMER PLACE is a study in fear, paranoia, stubborn pride, and lost love — and heartless ambition ultimately destroyed by something uncontrollable and far ghostlier than a mere insect phobia.

SUMMER PLACE is available on Kindle: http://amzn.to/1536HAF

ASYLUM, second in the Thunder Rise trilogy, was published earlier this year: http://amzn.to/ZOgTOT

THUNDER RISE was published in December year for the first time as an ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B00ANNAJL4

And this year, THUNDER RISE appeared as an audible book: http://amzn.to/1aaE3U0

Also recently published: SINCE THE SKY BLEW OFF: The Essential G. Wayne Miller Fiction Vol. 1, http://amzn.to/11e6BsC

Miller is also the author of TOY WARS, about the toy industry; KING OF HEARTS, about the maverick pioneer of open-heart-surgery; the NASCAR book MEN AND SPEED; and five  other non-fiction books. His three documentaries have all been broadcast on PBS, including his latest, the 2012 Edward R. Murrow Award-winning COMING HOME, about veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Visit Miller at www.gwaynemiller.com