Author Jason D Brawn

Ray Blackstone barely survives a fatal car crash, emerging from the wreckage battered and bruised. But he has only one recollection: the police were hot on his pursuit, following a daring bank raid. Now, he has awoken in the remote woodlands, surrounded with tall trees or wreckage in sight.

Ray and his cronies find themselves battling the blistering wind and getting lost. Then, strange happenings begin to occur around Ray, ultimately leading him and his cohorts to a neglected log cabin. Heedless to danger, they decide to take refuge in this cabin for the night; and soon Ray learns the real reason they survived the crash and what’s in store for them.

Perhaps they have not escaped Death after all!

The novelette also includes a bonus story, titled, OUT OF ORDER.

August 1979. What should have been a bank holiday weekend for a group of teenagers, celebrating their A-level success, turns out to be a weekend of hell.

Four eighteen-year-olds, on their way to a music festival, are driven to an isolated lake, somewhere in the North York moors, where they are told a folktale about a demon that haunts the site.

Afterwards, the van won’t start; and feeling stranded in the middle of nowhere, the teens have no alternative, but to camp for the night. Their friend, who brought them there, however, harbours a sinister agenda that involves the lake’s legend.

No one can hear their screams!

The novelette also includes bonus short stories:

THE FIGURE IN WHITE

THE COFFIN

THE LAST TRAIN

A FIELD OF NIGHTMARES

THE INTERVIEW:

When did you first want to write for a living?

I have always wanted to be a horror writer from the age of 12, when discovering that you can make a living out of this. Stephen King was the main man, back in the early eighties, and was totally awe of his talent and wanted to be like him.


What made you decide on horror/Sci-Fi/Thriller?

Horror and science fiction have always been the genres I've been most comfortable with. Any opportunity, I was given at school, to write a story would always fall into those favourite genres of mine.


How long have you been writing?

Throughout my life, as escapism, and now I'm writing to get published. During my early twenties, I wanted to be a screenwriter, but found it too difficult to find success. Screenwriting has, in my experience, so many rules and considerations that limited your talent. Like for instance, I couldn't write a mega budget sci-fi action adventure script, because there are a lot of film companies that only catered for low budget films, and you need to have an agent, like William Morris, for representation. Also, the horror film industry in Britain is very hard to crack. So I gave up and returned to prose, since high school, finding greater success.
To give a clear answer, I would say 19 years, I've been writing.


What kind of inspirations do you have?

Stephen King, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Robert Bloch, Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, Rod Sterling, John Carpenter, Hammer Films, Amicus Films, Nigel Kneale, Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe. The list goes on and on.


Favorite authors/or books?

Edgar Allan Poe, Nigel Kneale, Phillip K. Dick as my favourite authors. For books, Carrie, Psycho and the Pan Books of Horrors.


What can we expect to see from you in the near future?

As well as enjoying the release of novelettes REFUGE and STRANDED, my debut novella, WITCH-HUNT will be released in time for everyone's Christmas shopping. Then, I plan to re-edit and release all my short stories, as a series of collected volumes, in the new year. I plan to make lots of releases in 2013. So excited.


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