The Reaper Effect
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The town of East Glen, five miles from the East Glen Chemical Research Facility. An orange 1998 model Camaro sped down one of the narrow roads in town that led in from the interstate while metal music erupted from the speakers inside. A half-smoked cigarette rested in-between the thick fingers that held the top of the black steering wheel. Pale blue eyes watched the road as black goatee-enclosed lips took the cigarette and pulled rich smoke from its brown filter. The clock in his car read 12:03 am as he looked down at it.
He noticed that the road was unusually void of traffic for a Friday night, and he could see a vague amber glow off in the distance below a trailing cloud of smoke that was barely visible in the turbid night sky. He imagined that it was a fire caused by the dry weather that had stuck with them for a few weeks, and thought nothing more of it as he took one last puff from the cigarette and prepared to flick it out the cracked window.
He looked at the window for a second while disposing of the cigarette butt, and when he looked forward to the road ahead he had enough time to see and feel his car hit a person that was walking up his side of the road. He could hear the body roll over the top of the car, and saw it fall in the road behind him in his rear-view mirror. The person then rolled off the road and into the tall grass that waited in the ditch. Victor immediately slammed on his brakes and brought the car to a sudden halt; wasting no time getting out of the car to see what he had just done. The hood of the car was bent upward on the driver's side, and just above the headlights rested a severed arm that was wedged partially under the damaged orange hood. Victor covered his mouth as the realization of what he had done hit him like a fist.
He placed his hands onto his knees as his stomach grew weak. He gagged several times and then spilled the contents of his stomach onto the pavement. While wiping his mouth he noticed that the severed arm stuck onto his car was in various states of festering decay. His eyes grew wide as he turned around sharply to find rotten flesh wrapped partially in a rotting blue suit less than ten feet from him. Without thinking twice he lunged forward and kicked it firmly with his right foot, knocking it down and away. Victor then jumped into his car and floored the accelerator after closing the door, and was quickly a safe distance away from the walking waste he had seen.
"What the fuck's going on?" He muttered to himself in panicked breaths as he tried to calm down. "That's just not possible. The fucker was dead before I hit him...but he was walking...What the fuck’s going on?"
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About the Book
"The Reaper Effect" is a prologue story about a man named Victor who has lost everyone in his life and is in the process of moving some place new to try and start over. While on his journey, he becomes stranded in a small town where the dead feast on the living and supernatural elements are pulling the strings. This is also the first part of a man's journey into a much darker world that lives within our own.
"The Reaper Effect" is the first in a series that will encompass a man's last night alive; and his entrance into the world of the supernatural and inhuman.
The goal of this book was to write something that possessed action, blood, gore, and ended in a way that you couldn't predict by just reading the first few chapters. This book in a lot of ways is a dedication to the horror movies of the 1980's; an era of film that has sadly all but vanished from the larger picture. Hopefully "The Reaper Effect" and other books that are new to the horror world will help to jumpstart the modern generation.
About the Author
Jason Grimm is a North Carolina native; one who's childhood consisted of one interest that surpassed the others: horror movies. From "Friday the 13th" down to cult classics like "The Evil Dead", horror was the one genre that stood out the most. With his first novel: "The Reaper Effect"; Jason Grimm hopes to pay tribute to the films and stories that inspired him while adding new twists and flavors to the supernatural fiction people have savored for decades.