Sarah
stopped her flippancy and sat back with a start when the medium’s rotund head
came up to stare at the audience. The woman’s eyes glowed green.
Several
women in the audience gasped and even men made low utterances of surprise.
The
medium’s arms rose before her as electricity danced between the palms of her
hands. She stood and raised her charged hands above her head, then threw her
arms wide.
The
room erupted in a flash of light with a deafening boom.
The
medium collapsed back onto the chair as a green spectral girl formed in the
mist floating above her head.
“Momma!”
the girl wailed. “Help me, Momma. It hurts!”
A
bejeweled woman in black, three chairs to Sarah’s right, jumped to her feet.
Tears streamed down her face. “It’s her,” she cried. “Oh, God, it’s Mary!”
Standing,
a bald man put a protective arm around the sobbing woman. The man looked up at
the specter and then at the medium. His thick eyebrows knit together as he
squeezed his eyes shut and fought back tears of his own. “We’ll pay whatever
you ask. Just give our daughter peace!”
A
faint smile passed over the medium’s lips.
Without
warning, the entry doors behind the audience burst open like the gates of Hell.
A demonic figure in dark rags stormed into the room, screaming.
The
Eidola Project
An
Eidola Project Novel
Book
One
Robert
Herold
Genre: Horror
Publisher: Wild Rose Press (Black Rose Imprint)
Date of Publication: November 18,
2019
ISBN: 978-1-5092-2406-7 Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-5092-2407-4 Digital
Number of pages: 290
Word Count: 69870
Cover Artist: Debbie Taylor
Tagline: The Eidola Project is recruiting. Dare to
join them?
Book Description:
It's 1885 and a drunk and
rage-filled Nigel Pickford breaks up a phony medium's séance. A strange twist
of fate soon finds him part of a team investigating the afterlife.
The Eidola Project is an intrepid
group of explorers dedicated to bringing the light of science to that which has
been feared, misunderstood, and often manipulated by charlatans. They are a
psychology professor, his assistant, an African-American physicist, a sideshow
medium, and now a derelict, each possessing unique strengths and weaknesses.
Called to the brooding Hutchinson
Estate to investigate rumored hauntings, they encounter deadly supernatural
forces and a young woman driven to the brink of madness.
Will any of them survive?
Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/SZovJ-MZQ5Y
About
the Author:
The supernatural always had the
allure of forbidden fruit, ever since Robert Herold’s mother refused to allow
him, as a boy, to watch creature features on late night TV. She caved in.
(Well, not literally.)
As a child, fresh snow provided
him the opportunity to walk out onto neighbors’ lawns halfway and then make paw
prints with his fingers as far as he could stretch. He would retrace the paw
and boot prints, then fetch the neighbor kids and point out that someone turned
into a werewolf on their front lawn. (They were skeptical.)
He has pursued many interests
over the years (among them being a history teacher and a musician), but the
supernatural always called to him. You could say he was haunted. Finally,
following the siren’s call, he wrote The Eidola Project, based on a germ of an
idea he had as a teenager.
Ultimately, he hopes the book
gives you the creeps, and he means that in the best way possible.
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