Bøger af Douglas Wynne

In 2016 an occult cabal activates a psychic trigger in a popular video game and a countdown to chaos begins.While her husband is deployed in Afghanistan, Jessica Ritter finds herself navigating the pitfalls of parenting on her own. That includes moderating her ten-year-old son's screen time-an obsession that hits a fever pitch when YouTube sensation Rainbow Dave releases an addictive new iPad game. Gavin knows he isn't supposed to keep secrets from his parents, but when his achievements in the game unlock personal messages from Dave instructing him to embark on real world mini-quests, he can't resist. In the aftermath of an ambush that leaves her husband missing in action, Jessica grapples with fear and sorrow while clues to a threat closer to home evade her detection. Rainbow Dave, the charismatic host of Scream Time, is America's cool big brother-a gamer who built a video empire on the strength of his personality. He is also the focus of a shadowy conspiracy hell-bent on sowing chaos with vast technological resources. Dave's anonymous benefactors have granted him a glimpse of paradise between the pixels, and the real world hasn't looked the same since. Now, wired with a head full of unholy revelations and a crate full of dangerous devices, he's on a mission to help his fans "level up" at a live event. Scream Time is coming to town, and it may be too late to stop a deadly game.

Her body was found lying on the misty grass in her own back yard at dawn. Her head was found nearby.One year after the brutal murder of his wife, Desmond Carmichael believes someone is stalking him and his four-year-old son following a hair-raising encounter with a hooded stranger at a local playground.Across the country, in the California desert, another severed head is found atop a watchtower at a Japanese internment camp memorial. FBI Special Agent Erin Drelick is called in to investigate a crime scene that will put her on the trail of a killer with motives as deep and twisted as the roots of a Joshua tree.As cryptic and threatening clues accumulate, Desmond fears that the wrong man was imprisoned for his wife's murder. Meanwhile, his in-laws and a local police detective who once competed for her affections have a different fear: that Desmond, despondent over the loss, has become too unstable to raise his own son.When the boy goes missing in their placid New England town, Desmond faces fresh scrutiny from the police. Racing the clock, he must work outside the law to decipher the mystery of why his family has been targeted.Can he untangle the clues from the bloody roots of history? And can he do it in time to save his son from a monster born in the dust of an American wasteland and hell-bent on reaping a whirlwind of vengeance?Readers who love Harlan Coben, Gillian Flynn, John Sanford, and Rachel Caine will be up all night racing to the stunning conclusion of this pulse-pounding thriller.Praise for Steel Breeze on Goodreads: "Tension from the first till the last page; well written; fast pace; what a great summer book!""Killer thriller! Read and be WOWED.""Wow! what a thriller. This book was a fast read and an excellent crime thriller.""I'm astonished by this author's versatility ... The characters, the descriptions, the fast-paced action keeps the reader flipping the pages as fast as possible.""This book is full of suspense and action.""Steel Breeze by Douglas Wynne is an amazing find! I needed to strike a yoga pose and take a xanax by the time I finished to be able to unwind! The tension started at the beginning of the story and, by the time the climax arrived the tension was palpable, thick. If you crave suspense, pick this up and start the ride...""Douglas Wynne's second novel ranks right up there with one of the best thrillers I have read ... The story will keep you wondering right up until the end.""This thrilling read raised my blood pressure for sure.""It's an excellent thriller-taut and tightly-paced ... The action moves very quickly in this book and the tension is maintained throughout.""Wow what a story. This one has you in it's grip from the very beginning and just when you feel you are coming up for air, it twists and turns and you're off on the ride again.""Amazing suspense that kept me hanging on.""A tale that gets under your skin, gets your adrenaline flowing, and just barely lets you come up for air before repeating the process again and again. And just when you think the worst is over...it's NOT!"

The Lovecraft eZine is a magazine of Weird Fiction and Lovecraftian Horror, with over 200,000 readers. Thanks for reading! This issue: "Cthulhu Does Stuff," a comic by by Ronnie Tucker & Maxwell Patterson "The Spaces Between," by Pete Rawlik "The Voyager," by Douglas Wynne "Endure Within a Dying Frame," by Michael Griffin "Catch Me If You Can," by Marcus Grimm "DreamShock," by Benjamin Knox & Toby Bennett "The Secret Goatman Spookshow," by Jonathan Raab "Winter Things," by Raven Daemorgan "Further," by F. J. Bergmann

THE RED EQUINOX HAS DAWNED AND THE OLD GODS WHO HAVE SLEPT FOR AEONS ARE STIRRING Urban explorer and photographer Becca Philips was raised in the shadow of Miskatonic University, steeped in the mysteries of her late grandmother's work in occult studies. But what she thought was merely myth becomes all too real when cultists unleash terror on the city of Boston. Now she's caught between a shadowy government agency called SPECTRA and the followers of an apocalyptic faith bent on awakening an ancient evil. As urban warfare breaks out between eldritch monsters and an emerging police state, she must uncover the secrets of a family heirloom known as the Fire of Cairo to banish the rising tide of darkness before the world is plunged into chaos.

Billy Moon would have given his life for rock 'n' roll stardom, but the Devil doesn't come that cheap.Goth rock idol Billy Moon has it all: money, fame, and a different girl in every city. But he also has a secret, one that goes all the way back to the night he almost took his own life. The night Trevor Rail, a shadowy record producer with a flair for the dark and esoteric, agreed to make him a star. . . for a price.Now Billy has come to Echo Lake Studios to create the record that will make him a legend. A dark masterpiece like only Trevor Rail can fashion. But the woods of Echo Lake have a dark past, a past that might explain the mysterious happenings in the haunted church that serves as Rail's main studio. As the pressure mounts on Billy to fulfill Rail's vision, it becomes clear that not everyone will survive the project.It's time the Devil of Echo Lake had his due, and someone will have to pay.