The Familiar

The Familiar by Joe L. Blevins

A larger coven of witches comes to Salem for the first full lunar eclipse of the winter solstice in over three hundred seventy years.  They drug a man to make him their slave.  He is found drunk in possession of stolen jewelry from a grave so he is sentenced to be hung.  The witches give him a strange potion that mimics death.   The authorities bury him thinking he is already dead.  The rare lunar eclipse during the winter solstice passes.  He emerges from the grave greatly changed: now he is in the form of a large cat that changes into the form of a man during the full moon.  His powers allow him to be charming and gamble to control others with a "second-sight" ability he lacked before.  He can change to many forms of beast when his life is threatened.  He can see what scares someone the most to use that against them.

  He takes the name Winston Rupert Wallace.  Winston uses his new powers to build great wealth to become an entrepreneur who controls a big part of New Amsterdam.   Willia and her brother Stephen join Winston to buy some ships to move goods up and down the Eastern Seaboard.   They use their powers and influence to build New Amsterdam into a thriving city to live.

Willia conjures up a member of the Roanoke expedition named Sir Christopher Warren.  He is a warlock who comes to take control of all their lives. He seeks the ancient Book of Spells that Willia has hidden during the Salem witch trials when many innocents were persecuted and some real witches hid from the community and some paranoid officials. Follow the adventures of Winston, Willia and Stephen as they use their magical powers to make themselves filthy rich and powerful. They fight the evil influence of Warren to make a decent life in New Amsterdam, the future New York City.

  

   Cold winter and summer mist

   Rainbows dance on trees with leaves

   As I lie down softly

   The gentle breeze fills my soul.

    I am free to go

     As the wind blows.

Reviews:

“Joe L. Blevins created a Masterpiece of the supernatural in all its glory, made for the movie screen. The story will have you sit on the edge of your seat as you witness graves, black cats, and mystical magic. The author takes you through a spine-tingling, bloodcurdling, haunted house of horror, where unspeakable evil is everywhere. Prepare yourself for Odd spirits, talking skeletons, demons, and what you will see as Night-time falls! "THE FAMILIAR" is as terrifying as SCREAM, as entertaining as PURE TERROR, and as haunting as THE AMITYVILLE HORROR.”

“Joe Blevins’ The Familiar is a very excellent dark novel. It has suspense, terror and outright horror. The story is extremely scary and very nerve wracking to read.
The cover is awesome.

The pictures in the book are awesome and each tells the story very well. Even if you just look at the pictures first, each one of them tells you the story and what is happening. What great idea that was even if you don’t understand the story: you will with the pictures.

Such a brilliant and superb story and would defiantly recommend to friends and other horror fans.”

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