HorrorCon

by Scott Norton

A young woman trying to move on after a personal tragedy, attends a horror convention where she sells "authentic monster artifacts" and meets a mysterious author who becomes strangely obsessed with her. For anyone who has been to a horror convention, or is just interested in what they're about, this book covers the experience in significant depth while placing you in the center of two fascinating and harrowing journeys.

140 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

After graduating from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications with a BA in writing and a minor in English Literature, I entered the family business where I wrote a ton of industrial scripts and ad copy and accumulated a great deal of experience in video, film and multimedia production. I also learned a fair bit about the importance of an office with a locking door and a pair of windows that overlook a roof. Happiness is often a handy escape route.

Reviews

[Bonnie · Rating 3 out of 5]

While I was reading this novella I found myself wondering what I was expecting because it was nothing at all like what I was expecting. When you read the synopsis you think there might be some crazy guy at the horror convention right? Or something sinister at least is going on there surely, but it was nothing like that and yet it was.

Without giving away the story I can tell you that it is vampire fiction, but not like any vampires I’ve read so far in that they aren’t made in any traditional sense or any other alternative sense that I’ve read.

The story has two character point of views, Eliza being the girl who loses it all, and Dr Radan being the creepy guy. I think Dr Radan was written quite well coming off to be the type of creepy that is sleazy, the ‘old guy stop following me around because you have no reason to’ type of creepy and I love how he is slowly unfolded to us in character and his story. It’s because of that I at first wasn’t so sure it was a vampire novel, I was given inklings and it took half the book to be completely sure because the term isn’t used and there’s only a few references to anything traditional in the first half.

For the rest of my review.

[Bitten_by_Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eliza Lowell is a gypsy. Well, she is sure she is one even if her lineage doesn’t exactly point that way. She is on her way to the latest horror convention to sell her wares, even though her belief in the paranormal had been crushed in one fell swoop that night six months ago...

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