Near Dark is a community existing on the edge of a truth that can never be revealed. It is a place where hunters seek their prey, satisfying a hunger and a need that no human could ever imagine. Now an unknown evil stalks them, threatening to tear their world apart. . . .
Live the Journey . . . Experience the Horror . . . Discover the Truth. Catharsis tells the story of a troubled young woman with special gifts and heavy burdens. . . . In an attempt to escape mysterious forces that may ultimately destroy her, Eve Shelby packs up her little sister, Dez, and embarks on a journey with a group of fellow telepaths. After a car accident leaves one person . . .
At the House of Cats, those felines who are cursed to become humans when the moon enters Leo find a safe haven between two worlds. But the House has fallen into disrepair; the cat who should be leading them has run away. She dreams of being a chef, of living as a human all the time (or at least six . . .
Faolan runs our family with an iron fist. As a rule, he takes what he wants, and mows down anyone who gets in his way. Or sends Cormac to do it for him. But maybe that’s what it is to be First. Thing is, what he wants now is Keaira, whom I love. He’s says he needs her . . .
Catharsis turns out to be a different sort of story underneath than it appears to be on the surface.
While it begins feeling a little bit like a conventional horror story, it ends up concentrating on the main character’s attempt to come to grips with events in her past.
I’m not much of a fan of revamping old horror creatures—whether it’s Twilighted vampires and werewolves, or the overuse of zombies in today’s culture. I often wonder what we’d come up with collectively as a culture if we weren’t working on the latest Buffy/Twilight/True Blood/Vampire Diary—what if we made up something new?