Sunday, June 15, 2014

A Door in Thorston




"Although reminiscent of the fine horror/mysteries of Phil Rickman, in A Door In Thorston, Lawrence Anzen proves that he's got a very unique take on modern horror. In the beginning, it feels like quiet horror, that creeping, suspenseful kind of horror that sneaks up on you. However, each chapter ratchets the story up, until it becomes a pulse pounding and very scary read.

At its heart, this is a haunted house story - or perhaps even a haunted town. However, it's not like any haunted house story you've read before. I'm not going to spoil the book for you by telling you the nature of the evil in Thorston. I'll simply say it's unique, modern, and thoroughly satisfying.

The writing style is engaging and intelligent and the characters will capture you from page one.

This is simply well written. I hope more people discover Anzen as he's a fantastic storyteller!"

In the haunted village of Thorston, danger does not lie behind every door. Just one. 

Sten Carter's best friends Jeff Coyne and Vanessa Solomon are in love, and he's happy for them. He's happy when Jeff abandons the city for a quiet life in the country village of Thorston. The rural peace seems the best place for Jeff to recover from his breakdown, and maybe even make a life for him and Vanessa. 

Then Jeff disappears. 

As he searches for answers, Sten will uncover his friend's obsession with the village's past - and Thorston is a place of many hidden histories. There is the ruined Hall, and the men who let it burn. There are the unexplained murders that left the village priest a broken man. And there is the lost old lady, endlessly repeating a ritual she no longer understands.

Sten and Vanessa must unravel what links these tragic events throughout Thorston's past, because now more than Jeff's life is at stake. Somewhere in Thorston there is a door, and if it opens, they will not survive....

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Time to die, Simon Aulus. 

It's been five years since the terrible events in Thorston drove Simon Aulus out of the police. Five years to rebuild his life after running as far away as he could. Now manager of a business intelligence firm in Tokyo, he's just about stable again. 

All that will change when he gets a call from a corporate client: her son has gone missing while hiking in the mountains of rural Japan. At first, he doesn't think he can help; he's not police and never was in this country. 

But the trail leads to Hiramatsu Lake, where four young people are trapped by the cold and angry dead. Aulus will have to face his past and use what he has learned, or his fate will be worse than death....

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About the author...

Writing aside, Lawrence Anzen is by profession an investigator. Lawrence has lived and worked throughout North America, Europe and Asia over the last two decades. He has seen a great deal of corruption, and the occasional monster, although those have been human (to the best of his knowledge).

He has been known to comment that nothing he writes is as fantastical as what real human beings get up to.

A great fan of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, it was not until a forced sabbatical following an operation that Lawrence determined to plan out and finish a novel which had been floating around as an idea for some years. A Door in Thorston was the result. The second novel to feature Simon Aulus, The Dam at Hiramatsu, followed in April 2014. Lawrence is at work on his third novel.

Lawrence is also a regular contributor at Fextralife.com, which he humbly submits is the best gamer lifestyle blog out there, full of lovely people (none of whom he has ever had cause to investigate). Not surprisingly, he reviews horror video games.

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