Fire Dance

by Mike Sirota

The flames took every one of them. From the circle of dancers, spinning in their madness, to the monstrous killer chained in the “dungeon” below, every man and woman in Concordia Sanitarium was burned alive, the facility destroyed. A century later, the ruins of the asylum stand isolated in California’s bleak Anza-Borrego Desert. Then, an entity is reborn deep in the womb of sand. Now, the Thing from the “dungeon,” once called Bruno Leopold, searches for the right host to help in bringing its brand of violent death to the nearby community of Smoke Tree.

Genres: Horror, Ghosts

284 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 15, 2011

About the author

Mike Sirota, the author of the thrillers, Freedom’s Hand, Demon Shadows and The Modoc Well (Atoris Press), and The Burning Ground and Fire Dance (ZOVA Books), has published over twenty novels with houses that include The Berkley Publishing Group (Penguin-Putnam), Bantam Books, Pocket Books, and Kensington Publishing Corp. For many years he was an award-winning feature writer and editor for a Southern California newsmagazine. Mike assists aspiring and published writers as an editor and writing coach. He lives in Oceanside, California with his wife, Jacqueline.

Reviews

[Rebecca Baumgartner · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Fire Dance" is a great, scary read. Get comfortable on the couch and prepare to stay there - because this is one book that is difficult to put down once you have started reading it. A classic horror novel.

[Dan Silva · Rating 5 out of 5]

I worked on this title and enjoyed every second. I hadn't been familiar with Mike Sirota's work, so I wasn't sure what to expect. But as I read this great ghost story, I started picking up his others. The book begins hundred + years ago and tells the backstory of a mental institution, it's horrific secret being kept in the basement, and how everyone burned to death in a freak accident. The rest of the book follows the people of a small desert town and how they must figure out how to survive the murderous rampage of Bruno, the horrific secret.

[Dennis Billuni · Rating 5 out of 5]

A stirring tale of murder and insanity in the Great American desert.