The Everborn

by Nicholas Grabowsky

Nicholas Grabowsky's widely-praised aliens-among-us horror/science fiction epic, available in its original award-winning version! The Everborn concerns the offspring of fallen angels that have lived among us since the dawn of man. Throughout the ages, they live life after life in normal society until each one falls in love and fathers his own child. Before that child is born, they undergo a rapid degeneration into a fetal state before they disappear entirely and become reborn into a new life, essentially becoming their own fathers. All of them male, they live out their commonplace lives under the covert protection of Watchmaids, inter-dimensional female beings whose purpose is to ensure no harm comes to them under penalty of banishment into a state of eternal loneliness. When an Everborn is reborn as a set of twins, one a soulless serial killer on a quest to be born again into a sinless life and the other a kind-hearted ghostwriter for a world-famous rock-and-roll horror novelist, a banished Watchmaid claims her role in an ancient prophecy to use the soulless twin as a means to re-enter our world and bring about its destruction. "My Dear You seem to me---in a way that's entirely admirable----a man out of time. You're writing horror epics when the audience has become increasingly numbed by cinematic hokum and stale ideas. I SALUTE your ambition, your dedication, your achievements. I have no doubt in my mind that there is much, much more to come from your fertile and blissfully complex imagination, and I'll await the next work with much anticipation!" ----Clive Barker (Hellraiser, director, producer, artist and bestselling author) "THE EVERBORN is a terrifying collision of genetics-gone-wrong science fiction and they-are-already-here UFO thriller. This is a nail biter!" --Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of DEAD OF NIGHT and ASSASSIN'S CODE Golden Award winner! Best Science Fiction Novel of 2004..... --American Author's Association, Northern California ***** 5 stars (highest rating) "ALL HAIL GRABOWSKY! .....a captivating plot completely unique...with a story so imaginative and profound, even I was astounded....satisfying a reader's interest in alternative science fiction, classic horror, suspense and yes, folks, even gore. The atmosphere is complex, murky and entraps you. The style of writing is blunt, audacious and head-on.....this book rises above the average horror/science fiction novel!" ------Horror-web.com "Grabowsky's writing is at times touching and emotional, however, his real talent is his ability to infuse his writing with a sense of dread and loathing that I have not experienced since H.P. Lovecraft..........(a) unique and often terrifying world that Sacramento novelist Nicholas Grabowsky launches us into......(it) has the feel of an "X-Files" episode, at other very twisted turns it delves into the psychedelic. For those of us looking for something new in the alien horror genre, look not to the stars, but look to Nicholas Grabowsky's "The Everborn." -----Tahoe Daily Tribune

Genres: Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Suspense, Paranormal

433 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 2002

About the author

Nicholas Grabowsky’s novels of horror/fantasy and mainstream pulp fiction, both as himself, as Nicholas Randers, and as Marsena Shane, have generated worldwide acclaim for over three and a half decades and praised by many of today’s popular horror gurus in the literary world and horror industry at large. He began his career in traditional publishing houses with brisk sellers in mass market paperback horror and romance, and in the last two decades is seen by many as a mentor to many authors and the smaller presses, which has become to him a passion.
His body of work includes the award-winning macabre aliens-among-us epic The Everborn, The Rag Man, Pray Serpent’s Prey, Halloween IV (and its special editions), Diverse Tales, Reads & Reviews, The Wicked Haze, Sweet Dreams Lady Moon, Red Wet Dirt, numerous anthologies, magazine articles, and self help books, with projects extending to screenplays, poetry, songs, film, and a wide variety of short fiction and nonfiction since the 1980s.
He’s a veteran special guest at numerous genre conventions and makes appearances and signings across North America. He has been in the limelight a radical gospel preacher right out of high school and in the following years a rock vocalist, teacher, lecturer and activist, editor, publisher and founder of the Sacramento-based Black Bed Sheet Books, which publishes “exemplary literature, fiction & non” but specializes in horror/fantasy, and Blue Bed Sheet Books, which published children's books, and subdivisions in progress.
Currently, Nicholas is at work with numerous anthologies, graphic novels and comic books, an Everborn sequel and the novels The Downwardens and The Sirens of Knowland. His independent film projects include the slasher creature feature Cutting Edges.

Quotes about Grabowsky:

"My Dear Nicholas: You seem to me---in a way that's entirely admirable----a man out of time. You're writing horror epics when the audience has become increasingly numbed by cinematic hokum and stale ideas. I salute you: your ambition, your dedication, your achievements, your blissfully complex imagination...." ----Clive Barker (bestselling author & director, Hellraiser, etc.)
"Grabowsky succeeds in making the whole world creepy...." ----Heidi Martinuzzi, E! Entertainment Television
"Grabowsky's writing is at times touching and emotional, however, his real talent is his ability to infuse his writing with a sense of dread and loathing that I have not experienced since H.P. Lovecraft..." ----Tahoe Daily Tribune
"Grabowsky has imagination to spare.....!" ---Sacramento Bee
"Impressive storytelling....." ----Wes Craven (Dir., A Nightmare on Elm Street)
“…..soon we’ll all be hearing about this Grabowsky guy….” ---Joe Dante (Dir, Gremlins, The Howling)
“Keep ‘em coming, Nicholas….” ----Stephen King
“All hail Grabowsky!” ---Horrorweb.com
“Grabowsky melds horror and Sci-fi with such expertise that I am left speechless.” ---Gorezone Magazine

Reviews

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Now, I’m not an X-Files kind of girl, I usually avoid most alien stories at all cost. It’s nothing personal, it's just that it got old real quick for me. After reading this book, I am converted. All Hail Grabowsky! A book filled with a story so imaginative and profound, even I was astounded. Satisfying a reader’s interest in alternative science fiction, classic horror, suspense and yes folks, even gore. The cherry on top, a captivating plot completely unique and interwoven definitively.

The characters are so well detailed, you feel as if you not only know them, you can see them. You find yourself becoming emotionally invested in their struggle to persevere in this world, and hold strong their humanity. Even the antagonist is not without pity or beauty. The atmosphere is complex, murky, and entraps you. You become as bewildered along the journey as the characters are, learning only as you go.

The pace is rapid, sucking you into this world of Grabowsky’s, and you find yourself fearfully enjoying the ride. The style of writing is blunt, audacious and head on. While reading, you feel as if the author is whispering the tale to you. Seducing you from the first line, unable to find it in yourself to put it down and go to sleep for fear of what comes next, what horror lay ahead?

Surely you’re thinking, "Now BloodyMary, this couldn't possibly be perfect". You’re right; the author seriously needed an iespell, or another round of editing. Did it deter me in my reading? Absolutely not, this book rises above the average horror/science fiction novel.

I give this book a 5 . Yes, you heard it kiddies, now raise your arms and say it with me, “Here at last, Here at last, that book I bought new is Here at Last”!

-As reviewed for Horror-Web.com

[Alexander Beresford · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have to agree with Clive Barker, Stephen King and all the others who also enjoyed this book. Great stuff! The imagination and uniqueness featured in this novel leads me to believe that Nicholas Grabowsky may be some kind of alien himself. One of my all time favorites!

[Antonis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Many clever ideas, a little too chaotic narrative, not very scary.

[Franchisca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Probably the most brilliant book I've ever read of horror or science fiction, and that is a lot to say, but I was immersed in this book for two weeks and found myself reading it again later. There's a lot to it and it's not an easy read, but it really takes you for a wild ride and I'll never look at alien greys or urban myths the same way again, ever. Over-the-top outstanding!

[Chris0804 · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think the story isn't too bad and I like the way the characters are presented but I don't like the writing style of the author and the last few chapters were absolutely confusing.