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The Demons Walk Among Us
The cats lay silent in their hidden places, waiting out the storm and watching as strange. Misshapen creatures rose from out of the ground, coming out of the dark swamps. The Beasts stood in the rain, for they knew it had been sent by their Master. They stretched their arms and loosened their muscles. They had been asleep for a long, time. And now they were free.
Huge, clawed hands waved through the wet air Powerful jaws that dripped stinking saliva snapped at nothing. The fangs of the Beasts were four to five inches long, and yellow. The creatures, well over six feet tall when erect, weighed between two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds. Their eyes were small and evil, with Hell-sent hate shining bloodred. Their bodies were covered with thick, coarse hair. The cats lay concealed and watched the Beasts as they stretched and growled. And the cats knew that the devil’s work had just begun….
Huge, clawed hands waved through the wet air Powerful jaws that dripped stinking saliva snapped at nothing. The fangs of the Beasts were four to five inches long, and yellow. The creatures, well over six feet tall when erect, weighed between two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds. Their eyes were small and evil, with Hell-sent hate shining bloodred. Their bodies were covered with thick, coarse hair. The cats lay concealed and watched the Beasts as they stretched and growled. And the cats knew that the devil’s work had just begun….
244 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2012
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About the author
Joann Harris
13 books4 followersJoann Harris was born in Durham, North Carolina and from an early age, she always wanted to write horror. What is it about horror that she finds so tantalizing? For one she finds terror a thrill a minute. Even when she was a teen she taunted her friends and relatives with stories about blood and gore, embellishing on the sordid details as they squirmed and cringed. Harris currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland.
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June 7, 2015
The Final Reckoning – A review of the novel ‘The Demons Walk Among Us’
“But the Dark cannot claim what Light does not surrender.” - C.L. Wilson
In author Joann Harris’s novel ‘The Demons Walk Among Us’, the devil makes his appearance in a quaint little American town. Sam, a brilliant, honorable, and courageous hero along with his wife Nydia, a powerful witch and little Sam, their 4 year old son with paranormal powers have been travelling all over the country defeating the devil and his various minions. They land up in Becancour, a town undergoing drastic changes in preparation for Satan’s coming. To defeat this powerful enemy Sam and his family have to team up with the local authorities and a few remaining good souls. And these allies bound to him by blood and honor will come in handy when he goes one up against the lord of evil himself.
Armed with only a simple single sentence plot line, this book tries to ascend mighty standards of success and almost pulls off the impossible. For a book with a host of secondary characters and a tight knit group of primary ones, the character development is spot on and believable. The small family of Sam, his wife, little son and the Dog are very likeable and as a reader you will be compelled to emotionally invest in this family. Their courage, determination, love for each other and the swagger and attitude of having seen and done it all before is infectious. The book also has a wonderful cast of secondary characters like the police chief, the deputy and the doctor who have to first face up to a threat they cannot fully comprehend and then team up with an outsider to save the townspeople.
As far as the story line is concerned, there’s a lot of unpredictability to it, you never know who’s going to fall victim to the unrelenting evil that’s sweeping through the town. There are a lot of hair-raising scenes as the people of Becancour turn on each other and commit unspeakable acts of evil. And these are juxtaposed against the strong beliefs and good natured behavior of another set of individuals. It’s one of those books you won’t need to use a bookmark on, as you will keep turning the pages to see what happens next because almost all the chapters end on a cliffhanger note.
The scene in the convenience store deserves a special mention, intended perhaps as to lighten up the mood or perhaps to open up the ‘fourth wall’ for readers and let them know that it’s just a fictional book, whatever may have been its true intention, this scene does stand out.
The story does contain graphic violence & gore, profanity and some sexual content. Therefore the sensitive, conservative and squeamish reader should definitely stay away from this. But fans of this sub-genre of horror and slasher books are going to have a whale of a time reading with wicked glory the exploits of the author’s vivid imagination.
“But the Dark cannot claim what Light does not surrender.” - C.L. Wilson
In author Joann Harris’s novel ‘The Demons Walk Among Us’, the devil makes his appearance in a quaint little American town. Sam, a brilliant, honorable, and courageous hero along with his wife Nydia, a powerful witch and little Sam, their 4 year old son with paranormal powers have been travelling all over the country defeating the devil and his various minions. They land up in Becancour, a town undergoing drastic changes in preparation for Satan’s coming. To defeat this powerful enemy Sam and his family have to team up with the local authorities and a few remaining good souls. And these allies bound to him by blood and honor will come in handy when he goes one up against the lord of evil himself.
Armed with only a simple single sentence plot line, this book tries to ascend mighty standards of success and almost pulls off the impossible. For a book with a host of secondary characters and a tight knit group of primary ones, the character development is spot on and believable. The small family of Sam, his wife, little son and the Dog are very likeable and as a reader you will be compelled to emotionally invest in this family. Their courage, determination, love for each other and the swagger and attitude of having seen and done it all before is infectious. The book also has a wonderful cast of secondary characters like the police chief, the deputy and the doctor who have to first face up to a threat they cannot fully comprehend and then team up with an outsider to save the townspeople.
As far as the story line is concerned, there’s a lot of unpredictability to it, you never know who’s going to fall victim to the unrelenting evil that’s sweeping through the town. There are a lot of hair-raising scenes as the people of Becancour turn on each other and commit unspeakable acts of evil. And these are juxtaposed against the strong beliefs and good natured behavior of another set of individuals. It’s one of those books you won’t need to use a bookmark on, as you will keep turning the pages to see what happens next because almost all the chapters end on a cliffhanger note.
The scene in the convenience store deserves a special mention, intended perhaps as to lighten up the mood or perhaps to open up the ‘fourth wall’ for readers and let them know that it’s just a fictional book, whatever may have been its true intention, this scene does stand out.
The story does contain graphic violence & gore, profanity and some sexual content. Therefore the sensitive, conservative and squeamish reader should definitely stay away from this. But fans of this sub-genre of horror and slasher books are going to have a whale of a time reading with wicked glory the exploits of the author’s vivid imagination.
June 20, 2015
>Book Review – The Demons Walk Among Us –
>This book is part of an un-named series and ends in a cliffhanger.
>Sam, his wife Nydia and their son, little Sam visit a town with one goal in mind - get ready for a fight with evil. This normally sedate country town splits between good and evil. Being a cat lover, I hated that the cats were satanic. The story spends a lot of time getting ready for the big battle that will take place over 3 days. The story end, however, in the beginning of day 2. This was not a good stopping point as there was nothing really happening in the major battle yet.
>The evil were portrayed as dirty and very smelly. They were also sexually deviant. These urges were described in detail, including multiple rapes. The violence was of the canniballistic type and were described in gory detail. A little too much detail. The story flits from one towns person to the next, introducing a myriad of characters that were hard to keep track of. The story also referenced complex familial ties from past books. As this is the only book I have read, the story was very hard to follow.
>The protagonists, Sam, Little Sam and Nydia, were flat, just in a waiting mode, except for one time at the end of the book with Little Sam.
>This book is for an adult audience due to explicit violence and scenes of rape. This story was uncomfortably explicit and confusing to read, not to mention the cliffhanger that made no sense.
>Reviewer for Paranormal Romance and Authors That Rock.
>This book is part of an un-named series and ends in a cliffhanger.
>Sam, his wife Nydia and their son, little Sam visit a town with one goal in mind - get ready for a fight with evil. This normally sedate country town splits between good and evil. Being a cat lover, I hated that the cats were satanic. The story spends a lot of time getting ready for the big battle that will take place over 3 days. The story end, however, in the beginning of day 2. This was not a good stopping point as there was nothing really happening in the major battle yet.
>The evil were portrayed as dirty and very smelly. They were also sexually deviant. These urges were described in detail, including multiple rapes. The violence was of the canniballistic type and were described in gory detail. A little too much detail. The story flits from one towns person to the next, introducing a myriad of characters that were hard to keep track of. The story also referenced complex familial ties from past books. As this is the only book I have read, the story was very hard to follow.
>The protagonists, Sam, Little Sam and Nydia, were flat, just in a waiting mode, except for one time at the end of the book with Little Sam.
>This book is for an adult audience due to explicit violence and scenes of rape. This story was uncomfortably explicit and confusing to read, not to mention the cliffhanger that made no sense.
>Reviewer for Paranormal Romance and Authors That Rock.
December 9, 2015
Review by Hailey:
Originally posted on my blog Live Laugh & Love Books
I can tell you straight away that this is going to be a one paragraph review. I had to force myself to finish this book to see if it got any better, just for curiosity’s sake…..it didn’t. The story line has the potential to be great, but it’s weighed down by an abundance of over-description of everything and confusing dialogue. I wish the author tons of luck and a bright future, but this book just did not do anything for me.
*I received a complimentary copy of the book in exchange for a fair and honest review.*
Originally posted on my blog Live Laugh & Love Books
I can tell you straight away that this is going to be a one paragraph review. I had to force myself to finish this book to see if it got any better, just for curiosity’s sake…..it didn’t. The story line has the potential to be great, but it’s weighed down by an abundance of over-description of everything and confusing dialogue. I wish the author tons of luck and a bright future, but this book just did not do anything for me.
*I received a complimentary copy of the book in exchange for a fair and honest review.*
September 10, 2015
The beginning of this book starts off oddly. You meet this family that is chasing Satan's daughter to stop her from spreading evil, but without really getting to know the characters. However, once you get into the story more the action picks up and makes you wonder which side is going to win, God or Satan. The story line was a great idea and quite original, but the characters needed to be built more. When they face death the reader needs to be invested in their living but they're not. Instead the only thing keeping you reading is to see which side wins, and Right when all of the action starts to get good the book ends. As far as I can tell there is not another book being written.
June 14, 2013
What a great read! Through the suspenseful, thrilling, and horrific events of The Demons Walk Among Us, Joann Harris at times had me on the edge of my seat waiting to see what happened. I can't wait to read more from Harris!!!
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