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| Bad Moon Rising | 
 enlarge | Author: Jonathan Maberry
Publisher: Pinnacle
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 29369
Media: Paperback
Edition: First
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.9
ISBN: 0786018178
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780786018178
ASIN: 0786018178
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Each year, the residents of Pine Deep host the Halloween Festival, drawing tourists and celebrities from across the country to enjoy the deliciously creepy fun. Those who visit the small Pennsylvania town are out for a good time, but those who live there are desperately trying to survive...For a monstrous evil lives among them, a savage presence whose malicious power has grown too powerful even for death to hold it back. Only a handful of brave souls stand against the King of the Dead and a red wave of destruction. Daylight is fading and a bad moon is rising over Pine Deep. Keep watching the shadows...
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 A very bad Halloween May 7, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Multiple Stoker Award winner Jonathan Maberry pulls off the near impossible in his latest novel, Bad Moon Rising (Pinnacle, 6 May 2008), the last in the Pine Deep trilogy - a truly satisfying ending to a horror epic. Far too often readers of multiple book series are left feeling just a little dissatisfied with the ending. That is not the case with Bad Moon Rising. Maberry, a highly talented new voice in storytelling, continues the breakneck pace of the first two novels, as the town of Pine Deep, Pennsylvania unknowingly awaits the Red Wave - an attack by a range of monsters as convincing as any in horror fiction. All on Halloween, in the town known as 'America's Haunted Holidayland'.
The cast of characters - good, evil, some possibly both - developed in the first two novels, Ghost Road Blues (Horror Writers Association's Stoker winner for Superior Achievement in a First Novel for 2006) and Dead Man's Song is fully utilised as the tension mounts to the point where the reader may find it necessary to place the book aside for some hours (a problem I had last encountered decades ago with Stephen King's Salem's Lot). There is incredible mayhem and death in this book - agonisingly described at times - but all in context and all to a level of realism often missed in the genre. Maberry's diverse background in the martial arts and other areas on the edges of our culture has been given full rein, proving the maxim a writer should write what they know.
Perhaps the most refreshing aspect of the trilogy is the way Maberry has worked in his deep knowledge of vampire and werewolf folkore to provide original takes on each of these monsters, which have been so abused and overused in recent fiction and film. As he points out in his Author's Note it is not often we read of a ghost who just doesn't know how to be a ghost. Enjoyably, here is a writer who convincingly tips his hat to some of horror's icons - both fictional and real.
One of the most evil villians recently created - Ubel Griswold - shares top billing with the brutal killer Karl Ruger, the cruelly violent Vic Wingate. Iron Mike Sweeney, a 14 year old who is not at all what he seems, the ghostly Bone Man, Malcom Crow, Val Guthrie, Saul Weinstock and the other heroes all appear fully formed and true to their destiny. Maberry plays no tricks - even the appropriately named Mayor, Terry Wolfe, acts out his role with not a hint of being out of character, or destiny.
But in the end, it's the story that counts - and this is a whopper. A mini-series would not do it justice. Over three books readers slowly learn to love and loathe many of the characters, to mourn their loss, to fear the villains and to imagine themselves in some of the situations. This empathy is a gift of the writer to the reader and is part of the spell that weaves it way from page one of Ghost Road Blues through the Epilogue of Bad Moon Rising.
Maberry is undoubtedly one of horror's rising new voices. He's prolific - one top of these novels he's producing four non-fiction volumes in as many years - and will publish a new series of bio-terrorism novels starting in 2009. Now's the time to get in on the ground floor - start this trilogy with Ghost Road Blues and you'll most likely be hooked.
chilling, thrilling and exciting horror tale May 6, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Thirty years ago in Pine Deep, Pennsylvania blight came upon the land killing crops and farm animals. This affected Uber Griswold, a Serbian werewolf, who lived in an isolated part of town drinking animal blood. After the affliction occurred, he went on a killing spree, murdering many humans until the Bone Man killed him and interred his body in the swamp. For years Griswold was in hibernation until he abruptly awakened and telepathically contacted his friend Vic Wingate who was making plans to bring Uber back to life.
Criminals Karl Ruger and Ken Boyd stop in Pine Deep when their car breaks down. In some mystical way Griswold turns them into vampires without killing them. Some know what they are including Crow and his pregnant lover, Val; as both had family killed by Uber years ago. Now Vic and Karl who worship Uber as their deity make plans for Halloween that if successful will destroy the town and much more; perhaps the country. With the confrontation coming soon, certain people will make a difference depending on which side they align with.
BAD MOON RISING is a chilling, thrilling and exciting horror tale that will appeal to fans of Salem's Lot. That audience and others will appreciate Jonathan Maberry's fine work as the key players especially the paranormal are three dimensional while starring in a complex plot that keep readers wondering who will win this battle between good and evil.
Harriet Klausner
Wow! May 17, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Wow, what a great read. Reminiscent of early King. Great pacing and likeable good guys and scary bad guys. The plot holds together nicely. Just like good old fashion horror adventures should be. A great compliment to the 1st two books, I think. I hope it's not the end of further adventures in Pine Deep.
Worth the wait May 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Pine Deep trilogy comes to a startling end in BAD MOON RISING. It seems like it has been a long time in between books, but this long novel comes to an epic conclusion that was truly worth the wait. I was sorry to see it end. Maberry is one of the most remarkable talents to come along in horror. The Pine Deep saga is extraordinary in its depth of character development and plot twists. This is epic reading on a LORD OF THE RINGS scale. Be sure to start with GHOST ROAD BLUES and then DEAD MAN'S SONG before reading this novel or you will be missing out on a lot. This is 1600 pages of amazing reading.
Best Yet June 5, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mayberry's best yet. All of the tension and excitement of the first two in this series come together in this one. If you can believe it, he creates even more in final book of the trilogy. The book stands on its own, however. So if you have only one great horror book to read this summer this is the one!
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