Jersey Devils: Book 3 of the Haunted Psychic Mysteries

by Keith McCabe

From the author of Rabbit King and Pain Diary comes the third electrifying installment of the Deb Dawson series

Deb Dawson and Madeline Hall return in Keith McCabe’s spellbinding supernatural thriller. Powerful witches and nefarious devil worshipers wage war in the heart of the New Jersey Pine Barrens in an ultimate battle of good versus evil. As the lines blur between reality and the paranormal, Deb Dawson and her allies must confront their darkest fears and face their devils head on…

Eleanor Vaughn is a renowned paranormal researcher with more than two dozen bestselling books documenting her investigations. But she has a disturbing she’s a fraud who doesn’t believe in ghosts. Eleanor’s world is turned upside down when she encounters a mysterious psychic who warns Eleanor of impending evil. Even worse, the psychic claims that Eleanor is at the heart of it.

As Eleanor embarks on a crusade to unmask the mysterious psychic, New Jersey is rocked by a series of Jersey Devil sightings. The legendary creature lays waste to innocents and destroys the campground of benevolent witches. What is its sinister purpose? Bookstore owner James Conrad and reporter Shawn Gayle investigate the rising tide of violence and uncover a treacherous conspiracy going back centuries.

While Conrad and Shawn risk their lives in their quest for answers, Eleanor enters the terrifying uncharted world of the occult in her hunt for the psychic. Old legends and new enemies converge in spiritual warfare, and Deb Dawson and Maddy Hall will risk everything to stop unimaginable evil.

575 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 7, 2025

About the author

Keith McCabe writes at the crossroads of horror and humanity, where dread seeps into the cracks of the human experience and truth is often more terrifying than the monster. An American indie author, McCabe has built a body of work that’s as fearless as it is unsettling—stories that pulse with suspense, rage, and psychological fire. Influenced by the haunting precision of Peter Straub, the emotional brutality of Joyce Carol Oates, and the stark moral landscapes of modern noir, McCabe crafts tales where every shadow hides a secret and every sinner has their reason.

His novels span the spectrum of terror and mystery. In Rabbit King, a fever dream of psychological horror, McCabe dissects the art underworld where the mythical Rabbit King has reigned for centuries; a mysterious creature that determines which artists achieve fame in their lifetime or die penniless and forgotten. Director’s Cut turns a lens on obsession and morbid fandom in the world of underground filmmaking—where creativity and cruelty blur into a single, bloody performance. Pain Diary is an unflinching psychological thriller that reads like a confession from the edge of reason, a story about trauma’s long reach and the fragile architecture of identity.

McCabe’s Victims & Hunters takes a detour into history without losing his trademark grit—a sprawling historical crime novel set against a world of moral decay, vengeance, and fractured justice with a pioneer female investigator (Maryelaina Lemberg) at the helm. Here, McCabe fuses period detail with the tension of modern noir, proving that human corruption is timeless.

His supernatural Deb Dawson series (Jersey Graves, Jersey Gothic, Jersey Devils) extends his vision into a haunting mythos of cursed people and restless spirits featuring a reluctant New Jersey psychic (Deb Dawson) navigating the dangerous occult underworld. Through these works, McCabe explores America’s dark folklore and the ghosts we make for ourselves—both literal and psychological.

What ties McCabe’s stories together is not just their intensity, but their empathy—the sense that beneath every act of violence lies a yearning for something pure, something lost. His worlds are brutal, beautiful, and cinematic, written with the pulse of a thriller and the soul of literary fiction.

Keith McCabe lives in Texas where he works as a court reporter.