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Infestation
Ben Bradley works for a typical midwestern American city that is falling apart just as his own family is, too. As he tries to put his family back together, his city embarks on a dramatic new housing redevelopment plan that will change its face. But there are so many undesirables that have to be gotten rid of first. The current residents. And the pests. A shadowy figure comes to town with the promise of ridding the city of its unwanted. First, the vermin disappear. Then the homeless. Then the children. To save his family and his city, Bradley must face a legendary foe with a thousand years of experience in extermination.
Praise for Stoker-Nominated Author John F.D. Taff
"Taff's prose shines in a longer format." Gabino Iglesias, Reviewer at HorrorTalk.com and Author of Gutmouth.
"John F.D. Taff really knows how to deliver!" Ann Hale, Horror Editor, Pop-Break.com.
"Taff brings the pain." Bram Stoker Award-Winning Author Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Code Zero and Fall Of Night
"John Taff is a standout talent. Literary, affecting, chilling, and indicative of that old-school mentality meets new-school daring, you need look no further than this collection for evidence that not only is horror not dead, there are new proponents of the craft among us more than capable of giving it the jolt it needs to carry it into the future." Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Turtle Boy, Kin, and Jack & Jill.
Praise for Stoker-Nominated Author John F.D. Taff
"Taff's prose shines in a longer format." Gabino Iglesias, Reviewer at HorrorTalk.com and Author of Gutmouth.
"John F.D. Taff really knows how to deliver!" Ann Hale, Horror Editor, Pop-Break.com.
"Taff brings the pain." Bram Stoker Award-Winning Author Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Code Zero and Fall Of Night
"John Taff is a standout talent. Literary, affecting, chilling, and indicative of that old-school mentality meets new-school daring, you need look no further than this collection for evidence that not only is horror not dead, there are new proponents of the craft among us more than capable of giving it the jolt it needs to carry it into the future." Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Turtle Boy, Kin, and Jack & Jill.
347 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 22, 2015
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About the author
John F.D. Taff
86 books258 followersJohn F.D. Taff is a multi-Bram Stoker Award short-listed dark fiction author with more than 30 years experience, and more than 100 short stories and seven novels in print.
He has appeared in Cemetery Dance, Eldritch Tales, Unnerving, Deathrealm, Big Pulp and One Buck Horror, as well as anthologies such as Hot Blood: Seeds of Fear, Hot Blood: Fear the Fever, Shock Rock II, Lullabies for Suffering, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Behold!, Shadows Over Main Street 2, Horror Library V, Best of Horror Library, Dark Visions Vol. 1, Ominous Realities, Death's Realm, I Can Taste the Blood and Savage Beasts. His work will appear soon in The Seven Deadliest and I Can Hear the Shadows.
His novels include The Bell Witch, Kill-Off and the serialized apocalyptic epic The Fearing. Thunderstorm Books and Grey Matter Press will release a one-volume version of The Fearing in 2021, in limited edition hardcover, soft cover and digital. Short fiction collections include Little Deaths: The Definitive Collection and Little Black Spots, both published by Grey Matter Press.
Taff's novella collection, The End in All Beginnings, was called one of the best novella collections by Jack Ketchum and was a Stoker Award Finalist. His short "A Winter's Tale" was also a Stoker Finalist.
His upcoming anthology Dark Stars, a tribute to that seminal '80s work Dark Forces, will be published by Tor/Nightfire 11/2/21.
His website is at johnfdtaff.com. Follow him on Twitter @johnfdtaff.
He has appeared in Cemetery Dance, Eldritch Tales, Unnerving, Deathrealm, Big Pulp and One Buck Horror, as well as anthologies such as Hot Blood: Seeds of Fear, Hot Blood: Fear the Fever, Shock Rock II, Lullabies for Suffering, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Behold!, Shadows Over Main Street 2, Horror Library V, Best of Horror Library, Dark Visions Vol. 1, Ominous Realities, Death's Realm, I Can Taste the Blood and Savage Beasts. His work will appear soon in The Seven Deadliest and I Can Hear the Shadows.
His novels include The Bell Witch, Kill-Off and the serialized apocalyptic epic The Fearing. Thunderstorm Books and Grey Matter Press will release a one-volume version of The Fearing in 2021, in limited edition hardcover, soft cover and digital. Short fiction collections include Little Deaths: The Definitive Collection and Little Black Spots, both published by Grey Matter Press.
Taff's novella collection, The End in All Beginnings, was called one of the best novella collections by Jack Ketchum and was a Stoker Award Finalist. His short "A Winter's Tale" was also a Stoker Finalist.
His upcoming anthology Dark Stars, a tribute to that seminal '80s work Dark Forces, will be published by Tor/Nightfire 11/2/21.
His website is at johnfdtaff.com. Follow him on Twitter @johnfdtaff.
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October 7, 2015
John did it again...
He creeped me out and then he made me laugh, this time with a unique and fresh take on an oldie, but goodie. Well written, entertaining, and page turning fun.
He creeped me out and then he made me laugh, this time with a unique and fresh take on an oldie, but goodie. Well written, entertaining, and page turning fun.
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