Guest Post: Dark Vengeance by Russell James

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Will the blood of innocents release the evil trapped at Galaxy Farm?

A coven of witches has moved into the tiny town near Galaxy Farm. They know about the evil entity that lies trapped there, and they hope to resurrect it and set it free to renew its hunt of mankind. All they need for their sacrifices is the blood of innocent children. Only Laura Locke and Theresa Grissom have the skills to defeat this supernatural danger, but their previous brush with the evil at Galaxy Farm has shattered their relationship. If they can’t work together to stop the coven in time, hundreds will die. Starting with Theresa’s son.

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People must think I hate the state of Tennessee. 

My first novel, Dark Inspiration, had Laura Locke and her husband move into a haunted house in rural Moultrie, Tennessee. Things got grim. My fourth novel, Dark Vengeance, returns to Moultrie. Laura and her friend Teresa uncover a coven of witches trying to resurrect a demon. Things get even grimmer. 

I really love Tennessee. My wife was born there, I lived there for eleven years, I have great friends that still do. The countryside is beautiful, the people warm and friendly. 

But horror needs a setting that engenders isolation. Small town living is isolating, surrounded my acres of woods and farmland, pitch black at night in the absence of the light pollution suburban and city folks take for granted. Your nearest neighbor is a mile away, and anything could be going on over there, even witchcraft. Tennessee fit the bill both times, benign as it is in real life. 

Laura and Teresa are also isolated emotionally in this story. Best friends in the first novel, they went through a lot. Evil haunted spirits, psycho neighbors, a murderous husband and a murdered sheriff. Both women barely escaped with their lives, and the stress was too much for their friendship to endure. As the evil outside town starts to build, both of them face it alone. 

But they can’t defeat it alone, and the story follows their struggles with each other, and the coven that threatens the unsuspecting town. 

A novel takes me almost a year to complete. I couldn’t stay in my fictional Tennessee that long if I didn’t like the real one so much. So pick up Dark Vengeance and come stay a spell in Moultrie. When the ghosts stay still, and the witches aren’t casting spells, it’s a great little place. 

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About the author:

Russell R. James was raised on Long Island, New York and spent too much time watching Chiller, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and The Twilight Zone, despite his parents' warnings. Bookshelves full of Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe didn't make things better. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Central Florida. 

After a tour flying helicopters with the U.S. Army, he now spins twisted tales best read in daylight. He has written the paranormal thrillers Dark Inspiration, Sacrifice, Black Magic and Dark Vengeance. He has two short story collections, Tales from Beyond and Deeper into Darkness. His next novel, Dreamwalker, releases in 2015.

His wife reads what he writes, rolls her eyes, and says "There is something seriously wrong with you." 

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