Blair Witch: Graveyard Shift

by Dave Stern

Midnight. August 4, 1995. The eerie lights of the deserted airfield play across the exhausted face of Detective Randy Crawford. For almost six months, he's been chasing a convicted serial killer, John Lee Fellowes, across the back roads of Maryland. Now Crawford, with the aid of Deputy Harris Green, has cornered Fellowes at last, in the sleepy little town of Burkittsville. But is it a human killer they must confront -- or an evil force from out of the past, given life in the shape of a man? Long before the rest of America had heard of the Blair Witch, two good men in the Black Hills of Burkittsville faced down a demon out of the past.

Genres: Horror

93 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 28, 2000

About the author

Dave Stern has written/edited/collaborated on multiple previous works of fiction/non-fiction, including the New York Times-bestselling biography Crosley, the epistolary novel Shadows In The Asylum, and an unauthorized Adam Sandler biography composed with the help of the good people in the Smith College Library. His most recent work is Codename: Blackjack, the second thriller in the Sagas of the Cincinnati series.

His author photo is woefully out of date.

Reviews

[Ryder O. Cox · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just ok. I'm not usually a big fan of short stories anyway, but this one was full of copaganda and some of the decisions made by the characters didn't make any sense. Why would the main character eat the mushrooms AGAIN while he was being attacked? for instance.

[Igy The Book Hermit · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am a huge Blair Witch fan, but this book could have been better. I read it twice and still was slightly disappointed in the story.

[Paul Leone · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fine addition to the Blair Witch mythos

This is a nice, quick read that adds an interesting new layer to the world of the Blair Witch. Definitely recommended to fans of the movie.

[cyberwebbz]

Revolving lantern of memories and incidents that will be summoned again and again and changed and assume their changed form in the past creating a new present where the events had never not been as they are now, natural magic as the source of all good vs evil… U cant win if u refuse 2 open your mind 2 all the things that create the terrible actions in our world!!! Treating the symptoms 2 ignore the cause… Cute little book!!! Very man-boy kind of fiction, about cool Se7en style cops who investigate grisly murders, like a book version of those gritty blue-tinted supernatural thrillers from the 2000s. Dead Silence! Very movie-like style of writing, minimal prose but makes the whole thing flow rly nicely. Easy and fun read! Another step in my Blair Witch extended universe exploration, started with this book bcoz there is NO physical copy its just an ebook! Thats such a shame 2 me bcoz i really enjoy reading actual books a lot more. This is only 80 pages though… So maybe they figured it was a bit of a waste of paper. I dont think anything is a waste of paper. #PRINTBLAIRWITCHGRAVEYARDSHIFT! This guy (D.A. Stern) makes so many of the Blair Witch books. So many gruff detective men! Sometimes its hard 4 me to tell a bunch of male characters apart especially when theyre all referring 2 eachother by last name. Love the stock art cover on this. I think we’ve lost the art of stock photo collage book covers, there used 2 be so many in drug stores and airport book stalls!!! I prefer it greatly 2 amorphous blobs of colour that dont really help give u a good vibe reading on what the book is going 2 be like. Look church and graveyard probably some kind of mystery involving religion slash spirituality and DEAD BODIES! Every Blair Witch spinoff ive read so far has a lot of interest in Native American religion and spirituality… I dont know how much of this is bull shit but im assuming most of it is. There is no black hills. There is no blair witch. I would like 2 live inside of an archives building around all of that pages and pages of history. Every archive u need permission 2 go in and look at stuff but wat if i just want 2 peruse and browse like im in a bookstore? I wonder if they still have microfiche at libraries. I should go in and look at those… There are so many mysteries in there i bet. So in love with town mythology… I feel so baited when u start the book with a description of santa christmas sign and i get NO christmas for the rest of the whole thing. They should make a Blair Witch christmas special. Like a variety show type of thing… Bring in all the legends! Eileen Treacle Robin Weaver… Heather Donahue! Actually i think shes changed her name 2 something else now. She should start acting again her performance in that movie was so beautiful… I wish i was the blair witch its probably really fun to live in the woods and torment film students and big city detectives like that. I guess in this one shes actually a woods spirit named Okee but i think thats a lovely name too. In one of the games its called Hecaitomix… That one really sucks. Be glad that you are you Okee.

[Jeanne Feeley · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't know why "Blair Witch" is in the title honestly. Thank goodness the book was short. I thought it was awful.

[Joseph Hamm · Rating 1 out of 5]

It’s bad enough if a book is uninteresting, littered with grammatical and spelling errors, cliche, or feels like fan-fiction instead of adding to a franchise it’s a part of. This is all of that.