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If you are looking for a slow-boiling mystery horror thriller then my newly published novella - The Cut-Through - is out today.

Synopsis:

A young girl vanishes while running home from school. Just ahead of her are two friends. The cut-through path is short, fences along each side, nowhere to hide. Despite this, there is not trace of her. Two detectives are assigned the case, but from the start nothing about this disappearance is normal. It’s as if she has never existed.

Weeks later, a nude young woman appears. She claims to be the girl who vanished. She has all of the right markings and memories. But who is she? How can she be who she claims to be?

The two detectives are baffled. If the story this young woman says is true, then everything anyone has known about reality itself is wrong.

Then the true nightmare begins.

Available in print: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...

Or for Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...

I am trying something a bit different this time. I am releasing a new horror thriller podcast called Ovule - one episode at a time.

You can listen via Anchor, Spotify, Stitcher, Pocket Casts and other favorite podcast apps.

Check it out here: https://anchor.fm/bryan-alaspa



Synopsis

Something horrifying has fallen from the skies. Can a scientist and a small town doctor stop it from destroying the world? A horrifying sci-fi fiction novel podcast from the author of The Man From Taured.

I have had an amazing time working with a variety of voice talents over the years. There's something about audiobooks that, I feel, enhances horror and thriller novels. Some of my most popular titles (The Man From Taured, Vicious, RIG, Sapphire, Storyland, SPIDAR, When the Night Comes Out) are available as audiobooks at Audible and iTunes.

Here's the link for all 14 titles at Audible. Now is a great time to get into audiobooks and if you sign up for an Audible account you can even get some for free.

http://bit.ly/bwaaudible

The small town of Elgar, IL, is long forgotten. A town constantly on the brink of war, dominated by two powerful criminal organizations. Not far from St. Louis, set across a tributary of the Mississippi River, the town is hoping a new company looking to bring business to the region can save it from total ruin. Then, the fragile peace between the two gangs is threatened with a young boy disappears in the middle of the night.

Now, the police chief, who has never had to actually do policework, has to scramble to find out what happened. Who took him? Is he alive? Did one of the gangs finally go too far and kill an innocent? Will he be able to find out what happened before the two sides go into all out war, destroying the town and ruining the chance for any sort of economic redemption.

When the answer comes, it will shock everyone.

In Kindle format: https://www.amazon.com/Black-River-Br...

Or print: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/165...

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A terrifying new short story for just 99 cents. Stockboro Island is isolated, but when a biological disaster hits, the residents will have to make horrifying decisions in order to save themselves. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086H4J758

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A collection of 5 terrifying tales of supernatural horror and mystery. Pre-order the Kindle edition for just 99 cents or get your copy in print. Publication date: October 31, 2019.



Pre-order here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...

What would happen if a man actually found a way to change history? To use his billions and vast technological empire to force new realities into this one? What if that man was a madman?

The Revisionists is out now and available in print & eBook formats. A mind-bending, edge-of-your-seat techno-thriller now at Amazon.

The Revisionists

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The world of urban legend is one of the areas of the internet and the world prefer to live in. I love watching videos about UFOs and weird, mysterious things. I collect strange, mysterious stories like the Mad Gasser of Mattoon and other stories. One of my favorites, of course, is the supposedly true tale of The Man From Taured.

Of course, I say "true" but the fact remains this story is just urban legend. Although people who like the idea of alternate dimensions love to cite this story as proof, the fact remains there is no actual proof this ever happened. It's a great story, but still just that - a story. Of course, this means it's perfect as a starting point for a guy who writes horror fiction.

You can order my novel The Man From Taured at Amazon!

The urban legend says this took place sometime in the 1950s when security and air travel was nothing like it is today. In fact, security itself might have been more than a little lax. It also supposedly took place in the city of Tokyo.

Of course, Tokyo in the 50s would be post-war and probably still recovering. In the 50s, there would be a general lack of jet airliners and overseas flying to places like Japan would be vastly different and more unique than today.

The urban legend says a man entered the customs area of Tokyo's airport and immediately presented a passport and I.D. He also stated he was visiting Tokyo on business, stated the company he worked for, but then stated he was visiting from the far away land of - Taured.

Of course, this baffled the customs guys. No one had heard of this country. The man was baffled, sure someone was playing a joke. His passport was legit and said Taured. His driver's license was issued by the country of Taured. The problem is, the country did not exist.

They ushered the man into a room. The man was freaking out by now. He claimed Taured had been around for more than 1,000 years. It was a large, productive, world power of a country. He stated he had made the trip from Taured to Tokyo many times before on business and this had never happened before. He was scared.

The security team did a check. They called the company he said he was from. Sure enough, they had an office in Tokyo, but no office in a place called Taured and no one by the man's name working for him.

These guys produced a map of the world and asked the man to point out where Taured was. The man was dismayed when he couldn't find the country on the map and pointed to a spot which was, in this dimension, part of Spain.

Unable to figure out a solution, the security guys got the man a hotel room and said they would figure this out in the morning. However, by morning, the man was gone. His luggage was gone. His room did not look lived in. His bed did not looked slept in and the bathroom did not look as if anyone had used it.

He had vanished as mysteriously as he came.

For me, a guy interested in exploring the idea of alternate realities, this was too good of a story not to write about. However, I didn't want it to just be about some hapless business man who ended up in Tokyo. I live in Chicago and thought having this happen at O'Hare was much more interesting.

Additionally, I wanted to tell the story in modern times. What would happen today? Well, Homeland Security would get involved. There would be a bigger deal made about this. Also, the setting the man up in a hotel room would need an explanation because, I have my doubts this is standard operating procedure at airports these days.

This is where it sounded interesting to me. The man himself was just some guy caught in the middle. What interested me was the investigator assigned to figure out who the hell this guy was and how the hell he ended up at O'Hare.

Before long, I had a truly epic tale on my hands. A tale which went backward and forward in time. A tale with a vast, ancient, evil at the center with a madman at the center in our dimension. To me, the poor man was just an accident. It was the tale of how he ended up here through the machinations of a man blinded by ambition and not thinking clearly.


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Bryan Alaspa's new novel, The Revisionists, is available for pre-order now at Amazon. It's a techno-thriller that also deals with alternate realities and using them to change history - with horrific effect on our current timeline.

A new techno-thriller is coming March 19 2019. You can preorder it now and get the Kindle edition at a special preorder price of just 99 cents.

The Revisionists

Cal Trove is one of the most powerful men on the planet. He runs the most successful technology company every built. Everyone owns a Trove phone, laptop or some other Trove technology component. Now, Trove has invited his old college friends to his Island home base to talk to them about a new piece of technology. Something which will change things.

Really change things.

It's called Revision and soon the true scope of what this technology can do becomes evident. Then problems arise. Revision can change reality itself, alter history, tap into the collective conscious and unconscious to change human minds. It’s the most powerful tool anyone has invented.

And Cal Trove seems more than a little unstable.

As his friends work to find good uses for Revision, Cal's instability grows. Dark secrets from the past bubble to the surface.

If you had the power to alter history, change the past, reshape reality, what would you change first? What would the consequences of such an action be for the rest of the world?

From the author SPIDAR, RIG, Storyland and other nail-biting thrillers comes the mind-bending saga of - The Revisionists.

You can now preorder my new collection of terrifying horror short stories (4 short stories and 1 novella) When the Night Comes Out today! Get it for just 99 cents before Halloween 2018. The book comes out October 23, 2018.

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07... When the Night Comes Out: A collection of horrifying stories