Riders: Plebs 2-Book One

Plebs #2.1

by Jim Goforth

Very few survivors walked away from the fiery inferno and hellish bloodbath at the abandoned wastelands of St. Agnes. And for all intents and purposes, while Black Widow Justice and the Twilight Twins might be dead, from both the ashes of those personas and the ashes of the old church, come the Riders of the Apocalypse. Still hell-bent on eradicating scum and degenerates, they ride on motorcycles dubbed War, Famine, Pestilence and Death, seeking to do just that. Meanwhile, in the wilderness around Kallesin County, something is not right. A secluded domain, Kallesin County is home to many suspicious, guarded folk who like to keep their business private, but this time events transpiring around there are making the news. Bodies are turning up, badly mutilated and partially eaten. Some say it’s the work of wild animals, others say a rogue pack of dogs, while other outlandish claims suggest a cannibalistic serial killer is stalking the region. While quietly celebrating another successful mission and discussing a holiday, the Riders and company catch wind of these unusual incidents via a television news report and most of them share the same initial thought. That these grisly discoveries are not the work of animal attacks or cannibal murderers at all, but instead, something far worse. As the Riders holiday plans go ahead, so too do other plans. To travel to Kallesin County and confirm their suspicions about the unusual spate of deaths.

Genres: Horror

330 pages, Paperback

First published August 20, 2016

About the author

Jim Goforth is a horror author currently based in Albury, Australia. Happily married with two kids and a cat, he has been writing tales of horror since the early nineties.
After years of detouring into working with the worldwide extreme metal community and writing reviews for hundreds of bands across the globe with Black Belle Music he returned to his biggest writing love with first book Plebs published by J. Ellington Ashton Press. Along with Plebs, he is the author of a collection of short stories/novellas With Tooth and Claw, extreme metal undead opus Undead Fleshcrave: The Zombie Trigger, Riders: Plebs 2-Book One and Two, The Sleep, Carnival of Chaos, and Festival of the Flesh, co-author of collaborative novel Feral Hearts, and editor for the Rejected For Content anthology series (taking over the reins after volume one Splattergore. He also has stories in both Splattergore and Volume 2: Aberrant Menagerie).
He has also appeared in Matt Shaw’s Masters of Horror, Tales From the Lake Vol. 2, Axes of Evil, Terror Train, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories For the Wicked Soul, Floppy Shoes Apocalypse, Teeming Terrors, Ghosts: An Anthology of Horror From the Beyond, Suburban Secrets: A Neighborhood of Nightmares, Doorway To Death: An Anthology From the Other Side, Easter Eggs and Bunny Boilers, MvF: Death Personified, Drowning in Gore, Trashed, Full Moon Slaughter, Moon Books Horror Anthology 2016, Dual Depravity (co-author), VS: US vs UK Horror, Bah! Humbug: An Anthology of Christmas Horror Stories, and several others including numerous anthologies in Project 26 from J. Ellington Ashton Press.
He is currently at work on Plebs 3, and a handful of other novels.

Reviews

[Shaun Meeks · Rating 5 out of 5]

After reading Plebs by Jim Goforth, I didn't think he could possibly make a second book that would be as good and twisted. I was wrong. Riders is a fast paced ride into a world on Jim Goforth could create. For fans of writers like Richard Laymon, this will be a must for your reading list. Horror doesn't get much better than this.

[Andrena Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed Plebs so much and was very keen to start reading Riders: Plebs 2 - Book One and wasn't disappointed. The fast pace was equally as absorbing as Plebs and the horror (if you enjoyed Plebs) is just as gory. Great read.

[April Taylor · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'll review after I've finished the last, but so far,so brilliant. Easily on a par with the first Plebs story.

[Tamara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Get ready to feel completely submerged in a world that will not release you ... not even after you finally put this book down ... while reaching for Book Two. It's a hella ride, folks, so get strapped in and hang on. Goforth never disappoints, but he's outdone himself this time.