DWELLING: A Subdue Novel

by Thomas S. Flowers, Michael Bray (Illustrator), Chad A. Clark (Editor)

As a horrifying creature emerges from a sandstorm in Iraq, a group of once inseparable friends will face physical and psychological horrors of war. Forced to leave base housing, recent widow Maggie purchases a house in the town of Jotham. She quickly becomes isolated and disconcerted by strange clicking sounds inside the walls. Jonathan Steele attempts to drink the painful past away....wounded during his service in the Army, he wants to put the nightmare behind him, but when the ghost of his best friend killed in battle appears with cryptic warnings about Maggie, he begins to question even more his own sanity. Bobby Weeks homeless and struggling with a lycanthropic curse. Afraid of bringing harm, he stays far away from those he loves. But after a full moon, a mysterious woman approaches him and reveals a vision about a house with a sinister presence, and he realizes staying away may no longer be an option. Jake Williams lost his faith on the battlefield....and will do anything to reconnect with God. He turns to vices to fill the religious void. But as his church elders urge him to take a sabbatical a ghost from his past warns him that his life is more out of control than he could imagine. Events seem to be bringing these childhood friends back together. When Maggie wakes in a strange subterranean cavern far beneath her house with no memory of getting there, she can't deny her home harbors dark secrets. Desperate, she sends letters to her old friends to reunite in Jotham unaware of the danger awaiting them.

254 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 1, 2020

About the author

Thomas S. Flowers is an Operation Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom Army veteran who loves scary movies, BBQ, and coffee. Ever since reading Remarque’s "All Quiet on the Western Front" and Stephen King’s "Salem’s Lot" he has inspired to write deeply disturbing things that relate to war and horror, from the paranormal to his gory zombie infested PLANET of the DEAD series, to even his recent dabbling of vampiric flirtation in The Last Hellfighter readers can expect to find complex characters, rich historical settings, and mind-altering horror. Thomas is also the senior editor at Machine Mean, a horror movie and book review site that hosts contributors in the horror and science fiction genre.

PLANET of the DEAD and The Last Hellfighter are best-sellers on Amazon's Top 100 lists for Apocalyptic Fiction and African American Horror.

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Reviews

[Chad]

I think it’s important to be in the right mindset for this story. This is a slow burn, the opening moves in a multi-book series. So it might now have all the self-contained landing spots you might expect from a story under normal circumstances. The narrative is happening on a more global level that you are only starting to comprehend.

There is some phenomenally creepy atmosphere, though, hints of more to come and the compelling characters keep the pages turning. Flowers’s own experiences ooze into the pages of this book and the horrors of supernatural origins are nicely balanced by the inherent tragedy of these lives that have, in one way or another been fractured by the horrors of combat.