Make This A Mini-Series!!

Mike Huddersfield is working for Fear Incorporated, a highly secretive organisation that sends its employees on missions to hotspots all over the world. Each mission is filmed and the footage is shown to the organisations’ members for their pleasure. It’s an extremely dangerous job, and a lot of the employees don’t make it back home. Those who do however are rewarded handsomely.

Mike has just been given his latest assignment. He’s to spend seven days on North Sentinel Island, home to one of the last uncontacted tribes in the world. The members of the tribe are highly aggressive, and any intruder who is caught setting foot on their island is killed. Mike however is confident that he can survive.

FEAR INCORPORATED by Hervey Copeland is a fantastic suspense-thriller, and I sincerely hope the author considers turning this into a mini-series about the various jobs Mike has performed over the years. The character proves to be the perfect narrator for this story, the kind of guy you would listen to, if you ever met him in person.

The best way I can describe this: imagine a combination of The Belko Experiment, Escape Room and The Condemned, written with the flair of Stephen King and the intensity of Tom Clancy. Definitely making my Top 2020 list.

As always,
AstraDaemon

Craigslist Is Full of Psychos

Bad Moon Rising: Blood On The Bayou by Hervey Copeland is far better than I anticipated. This story is kind of like a modern day Deliverance, minus the rape. The beginning is a little slow, but, once the horror reveals itself, the desperation of Troy propels the story at a break-neck pace. I was so consumed with the hunt, I had forgotten the details of the intro and managed to be surprised by the ending.

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I lost count years ago of how many times I told myself, "I'd never do that," when reading a horror story. I blame the characters for being gullible or too trusting, assuring myself I couldn't possibly be that stupid. Oh, the lies we tell ourselves just to get from one day to the next...

I've done almost all the things that are used to begin a scary story: I've walked alone at night, I met someone from online, I've given out all kinds of personal information...if I looked at myself and my decisions the same way I look at fictional characters, I would have screamed my throat raw by now: "What the HELL are you thinking?!"

To make matters worse, I've been in some truly psychotic situations, such as being stalked for three and half years in college by a guy who chased me through a parking lot one day...or the time another guy drove onto my yard during the night and tried to force his way into my place, and I found out later he was wanted in three states.

I watch the news, I have a functioning brain, but I still manage to convince myself that horror stories are what happen to other people...

As always,
AstraDaemon