Bøker av Debra Castaneda

Eight miles of mystery. One night of terror. Residents trapped in a remote neighborhood confront the unimaginable in this horror novel from award-winning author Debra Castaneda. The salt marsh at Devil's Landing is home to a terrifying urban legend. Adam Gray knows the old stories about the Slough Devil, the missing children, and the mutilated animals. But the naturalist and wilderness survival expert doesn't believe in monsters. Not even when a tourist on his boat sees a strange creature in the tidal channel and captures it on video. When Adam moves into a controversial housing development next to the marsh, shocking new evidence emerges, and it's not long before he's confronted with a series of horrifying and unexplained events. It takes Christina, his feisty new neighbor, to get him to believe something lurks in the slough. Something disturbed by the new community. When a massive storm maroons the residents, Adam and Christina find themselves trapped and tested in a fight for their lives. The Devil's Shallows is part of Debra Castaneda's Dark Earth Rising series of standalone novels. Read the books in any order. Content warning: Sexual assault

When a massive storm surge hits the central coast of California, the ferocious surf destroys buildings, floods streets, and washes up something sinister from the depths of the Monterey Bay.Peter, a retired state lifeguard, knows the water better than anyone. Carla, owner of a beach-side restaurant, is still mourning the loss of her son in a boating accident. While both love their quaint small town with spectacular views, their personal lives are as complicated as the changing weather forecasts.After a mysterious creature in the water kills two men, Peter and Carla are plunged into a living nightmare as a massive tidal surge traps them and their friends in a battered, unstable building.While the storm rages through the night, they discover something horrifying swims between them and escape, just waiting to attack anyone within reach.They need to make life or death decisions to survive.But first, they need to make it to morning.Inspired by real events, A Dark and Rising Tide is part of Debra Castaneda's Dark Earth Rising series of standalone novels. Read the books in any order.

After dark, danger lurks in the ravine. "amazing characters...atmospheric style...enthralling, tense and exciting" - NetGalley review "draws you in and keeps you reading" - reader review "Entertaining, haunting and very well done" - Goodreads review It's summer, 1950. The bodies of handsome young men are discovered near an elaborate movie set in the hills northeast of Los Angeles. Each is a gruesome tableau of shocking violence. New to the big city, Robert is a reporter who needs to prove himself. Catalina is a beautiful healer, determined to keep her secrets. A chance encounter connects them to the cases, confounding police and commanding headlines. The results are as unexpected as they are horrific. But when a ghost appears, frightening the residents in the semi-rural neighborhoods where evictions loom, the dark mystery deepens and threatens them all. The truth is only one story away. If it's not buried first. A content warning for this book can be found on my website, DebraCastaneda.com.

"Debra Castaneda is extremely talented at writing creepy, atmospheric folk horror." - PopHorror.com Decades before a deadly attack wipes out a neighborhood along Roy's Slough, a circus ship crashes ashore at Devil's Landing. Among the wreck's survivors: a young woman from the mountains of Mexico seeking to free her captured lover, a vile ringmaster, and creatures that howl in the night. The lifeboats carry more than the circus troupe to the fog-shrouded harbor on the central coast of California: cages, secrets, and a lifetime of resentment. Hoping to fund the rest of their journey, the circus performers put on a show in the isolated village, but when a new animal act debuts, things go horrifyingly wrong. The events that follow reveal the depth of the ringmaster's ambition, the true nature of the beasts, a test of Ana Maria's love, and the real story behind the deadly Slough Devils of Devil's Landing. Read the origin story of the creatures in Debra Castaneda's coastal horror novel, The Devil's Shallows, part of the Dark Earth Rising series of standalone novels. Read the books in any order.

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