Bad Moon Rising

by Jonathan Kirsch

The doctor lay unspeakably mutilated in his living room. The bodies of his beautiful wife and lovely teenage daughters turned the water of his swimming pool bloody red.

And somewhere among the respectable citizens of the small California town... somewhere among the radical and rebellious students on the local college campus... somewhere among the bizarre cultists who fringed the community... somewhere in a sunlit world of sex and violence, sick and savage hatred swelled to strike again...

Genres: Horror

250 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 3, 1978

Reviews

[Fishface · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a fun read, especially considering that it's a novelized true crime, too many of which are horrendous. The author started with John L. Frazier's murder of the Ohta family and seemed to try to ring as many changes as he could on the story without leaving it completely unidentifiable. He focused on everyone surrounding the crime -- investigators, reporters, neighbors -- and their reactions to the multiple murder, taking us through all the usual dead ends and trails that lead nowhere to get us to a solution which had very much the same feel, to me, as the resolution of the real case. It also has a wonderful late-'60s psychedelic feel I remember fondly from movies like ANGEL DUSTED and BLUE SUNSHINE.

[Aurora Dimitre · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 stars

bruh.

[David Richardson · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pretty good short book. Really crazy in places. You can sorta see the ending coming but otherwise a good story