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Digital Darkness
"Lucas Mangum is a modern, digital age terror tactician. He's the frighteningly fresh voice horror needs right now." - Carver Pike, Author of Faces of Beth and The Slaughter Box
Twenty-three-year-old party girl Vanessa wakes up in an abandoned amusement park with five strangers and fights for her life against ravenous rats and superhuman, hooded sentries in the game Rusted Blood.
It's more than a game...
When paranormal vlogger Tanya discovers the game is tied to multiple disappearances, she learns that the barrier between worlds is porous. Whether she and others slip through is at the will of cosmic forces that know no mercy, a god who uses technology to ravage minds from its home in the dead town of Avalon Lake.
With Digital Darkness, Splatterpunk Award-nominated author Lucas Mangum returns to the nightmare world introduced in Gods of the Dark Web to evoke the derealization and hysteria of this uncanny era.
WARNING: This book contains disturbing content.
Twenty-three-year-old party girl Vanessa wakes up in an abandoned amusement park with five strangers and fights for her life against ravenous rats and superhuman, hooded sentries in the game Rusted Blood.
It's more than a game...
When paranormal vlogger Tanya discovers the game is tied to multiple disappearances, she learns that the barrier between worlds is porous. Whether she and others slip through is at the will of cosmic forces that know no mercy, a god who uses technology to ravage minds from its home in the dead town of Avalon Lake.
With Digital Darkness, Splatterpunk Award-nominated author Lucas Mangum returns to the nightmare world introduced in Gods of the Dark Web to evoke the derealization and hysteria of this uncanny era.
WARNING: This book contains disturbing content.
371 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 15, 2022
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November 2, 2022
If you have read Lucas Mangum’s Gods of the Dark Web, it won’t take you long to see that these books tie in. You don’t need to have read it to read and enjoy Digital Darkness, but if you haven’t read it, you should.
Like Gods of the Dark Web, Digital Darkness is a disturbing and compelling read full of gut-clenching suspense and horrifying imagery. But in spite of the elements that connect the two books (no spoilers), the stories themselves are quite different. In Digital Darkness, Mangum drops you directly into the thick of it and does character reveal along the way. Strap in and hang on, this carnival ride has dangerous turns and even the characterization is not a safe lull.
And the characters … Mangum’s skill with writing relatable and realistic characters is at its best in this one. You get to know these people. You feel with them and for them. The character interaction is flowing and realistic and is one of the things that makes this book so engrossing. Other things that make it engrossing include the suspense, the horrors, and Mangum’s incredible writing style.
But the story’s the thing. Digital Darkness is complex and vivid, full of not just suspense and horror but disturbing imagery. The tension is incredible. It makes the whole book a (sometimes unpleasant) sensory experience. It’s part of a terrifying horror mythos (hopefully myth, hopefully fictional) the author has created. It’s dark and evocative and drags your mind and emotions into levels of terror only Lucas Mangum can create.
Like Gods of the Dark Web, Digital Darkness is a disturbing and compelling read full of gut-clenching suspense and horrifying imagery. But in spite of the elements that connect the two books (no spoilers), the stories themselves are quite different. In Digital Darkness, Mangum drops you directly into the thick of it and does character reveal along the way. Strap in and hang on, this carnival ride has dangerous turns and even the characterization is not a safe lull.
And the characters … Mangum’s skill with writing relatable and realistic characters is at its best in this one. You get to know these people. You feel with them and for them. The character interaction is flowing and realistic and is one of the things that makes this book so engrossing. Other things that make it engrossing include the suspense, the horrors, and Mangum’s incredible writing style.
But the story’s the thing. Digital Darkness is complex and vivid, full of not just suspense and horror but disturbing imagery. The tension is incredible. It makes the whole book a (sometimes unpleasant) sensory experience. It’s part of a terrifying horror mythos (hopefully myth, hopefully fictional) the author has created. It’s dark and evocative and drags your mind and emotions into levels of terror only Lucas Mangum can create.
December 6, 2022
I wanted my Gods of the Dark Web and got loads more, yet probably have even more questions than after finishing that one... So I need another. Want to go even deeper in the rabbit hole. Great book with plenty of fucked up interconnecting stories and characters that continue the fantastic world building.
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