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Eight Days in October
Sixteen year old Simon Cubbins has no idea what horrors await on the morning his father disappears. The next eight days makes these horrors all too clear.
The boy is taken to Adderlass, a city rotten with ghosts, ghouls, murderous miscreants and - worst of all - his family. The very same family that his father always tried to shield Simon from. Chief among these is Leopold Cubbins, the feeble nonagenarian and patriarch of the Cubbins clan who spent his long and violent life trying to settle a centuries old debt. The old man knows that evil exists embodied in the shape of men, a bloodthirsty evil that sometimes calls itself vampire.
On the other side of this familial equation is Simon's absentee mother. The long lost Lenore Cubbins is cozy and complicit in her atrocious bloodline of supernatural misanthropes. She and the bickering brood of man-shaped monsters she loves and hates are lords over the city of Adderlass.
Buried deep beneath the city is the very key to a forgotten mystery. A vault harboring an ancient evil so sinister it could destroy human city or severe all vampiric beings from existence. Simon Cubbins is the tiny spark that sets this long-smoldering feud ablaze. In eight short days, millennia of conflict comes crashing to an apocalyptic end.
The boy is taken to Adderlass, a city rotten with ghosts, ghouls, murderous miscreants and - worst of all - his family. The very same family that his father always tried to shield Simon from. Chief among these is Leopold Cubbins, the feeble nonagenarian and patriarch of the Cubbins clan who spent his long and violent life trying to settle a centuries old debt. The old man knows that evil exists embodied in the shape of men, a bloodthirsty evil that sometimes calls itself vampire.
On the other side of this familial equation is Simon's absentee mother. The long lost Lenore Cubbins is cozy and complicit in her atrocious bloodline of supernatural misanthropes. She and the bickering brood of man-shaped monsters she loves and hates are lords over the city of Adderlass.
Buried deep beneath the city is the very key to a forgotten mystery. A vault harboring an ancient evil so sinister it could destroy human city or severe all vampiric beings from existence. Simon Cubbins is the tiny spark that sets this long-smoldering feud ablaze. In eight short days, millennia of conflict comes crashing to an apocalyptic end.
388 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 12, 2016
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D.M. Schwartz
1 book4 followersDM Schwartz was born in rural Indiana and spent his childhood roaming the woods, fields and back roads surrounding his home. He went to Indiana University as an art major but quickly switched to pre-med. Medical school came and went but the creative impulse remained. He wrote "Eight Days in October" while practicing medicine and raising his four kids and two dogs with the aid of his lovely wife.
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May 19, 2018
4 stars
Interesting book. I noticed that there were several Stephen King references. Names that were used included, Dr Hubert Marston and K Barlow (Salem's Lot), Jud Crandall (Pet Semetary), the John Daniel Torrance Institute (The Shining), Neibolt St (It) and The Charlene Mcgee Memorial Park (Firestarter).
Interesting book. I noticed that there were several Stephen King references. Names that were used included, Dr Hubert Marston and K Barlow (Salem's Lot), Jud Crandall (Pet Semetary), the John Daniel Torrance Institute (The Shining), Neibolt St (It) and The Charlene Mcgee Memorial Park (Firestarter).
February 13, 2017
Uniquely engaging
Truly horrifying, intellectually stimulating, thrilling, and engaging. The author has a unique ability to create characters that are relatable and flawed as well as characters that make you cringe with each inner thought. I recommend this book for anyone who finds the human mind and all its variations captivating even in its worst instances. I can't wait to read more.
Truly horrifying, intellectually stimulating, thrilling, and engaging. The author has a unique ability to create characters that are relatable and flawed as well as characters that make you cringe with each inner thought. I recommend this book for anyone who finds the human mind and all its variations captivating even in its worst instances. I can't wait to read more.
December 18, 2016
This was an amazing book! The book begins with many side stories about many different characters and you are wondering how it all fits together. But as you read you get so drawn into the story and the characters as it slowly unfolds to then come completely together. The writing is very descriptive so you can imagine the scenes in your head very easily and the characters are very well developed. I would highly recommend this book and look forward to more from this author.
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