Like Death
By Tim Waggoner
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There are no words for it. Ecstasy is laughably inadequate, as are rapture, euphoria, bliss . . . . Ugly, harsh syllables that come nowhere near capturing the merest fraction of what he feels. The experience is primal and transcendent, like birth, like death.
Scott Raymond lost his parents in a bloodbath when he was only nine years old, but despite the occasional headaches and hallucinations, he's managed to turn that trauma into moderate success as a true crime writer. The success doesn't extend to keeping up the relationship with his estranged wife and son, however. Hoping to regain a sense of normal family life, he follows them to Ash Creek, Ohio under the pretense of writing a new book about a missing six-year-old girl.
There, he encounters a young woman who shares the missing girl's name. She leads Scott into a world of psychotropic spiders, shark-toothed teenagers and the expression of nearly every dark desire. Fear and fascination lay equal claim as the nightmare fantasies of this realm bleed into Scott’s daily life and his attempts to maintain a relationship with his son.
Soon, he will need to use this world of cruelty and pain to face his past, his future, and what his life might have become. If he fails, it is only a matter of time before the nightmare that bloodied his childhood will reach out to ensnare his own son.
Tim Waggoner’s novels include the Nekropolis series of urban fantasies and the Ghost Trackers series written in collaboration with Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson of the Ghost Hunters television show. In total, he’s published over twenty novels and two short story collections, and his articles on writing have appeared in Writer’s Digest and Writers’ Journal, among other publications. He teaches creative writing at Sinclair Community College and in Seton Hill University’s Master of Fine Arts in Writing Popular Fiction program. Visit him on the web at www.timwaggoner.com.
Tim Waggoner
Bram Stoker Award-winning author Tim Waggoner writes both original and media tie-in fiction, and he has published over forty novels and four short story collections. He teaches creative writing at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio.
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Reviews for Like Death
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5In Like Death, true crime journalist Scott Raymond witnessed the brutal murder of his family as a child. Despite that, he has managed to settle into a somewhat normal life with his wife and child. After Scott starts to exhibit bad signs of extreme rage, his wife leaves him. He starts to investigate the disappearance of a six year old girl named Miranda. During the investigation, he is pushed into a world that exists beneath the surface of our world, one that he is starting to get glimpses of. During the investigation, he develops a strong attraction to a sixteen year old girl who is also named Miranda. Meanwhile Scott is being targeted by the people living underneath this surface.I didn't particularly enjoy Like Death. For me, it was just a strange novel that didn't appeal to me. I could never fully get myself engrossed in the book. The writing was competent and professional. The characters for the most part felt underdeveloped and not characters that I could root for, especially the main protagonist, Scott. All in all, it's a book that I would avoid. It's not terrible, but there are far better offerings out there.Carl Alves - author of Blood Street
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book was not what I was expecting. I was expecting dark fantasy, this is fairly dark supernatural horror. I found it actually a bit disturbing and was debating if I could make it through the book. I did and while I would say I’m glad I did, I will say that the story did come together very well by the end.The book started with a man who was possibly going insane, or was being driven insane. The man already had issues, he was the sole survivor of his family being massacred almost in front of him. He had managed to block out almost the entire episode except for the bits and pieces that come back in dreams or flashes of memory.He has recently been estranged from his wife and son. His wife made the separation because she could see his violence slowly escalating. She partly blamed it on his childhood trauma, and partly on the job he chose for himself. He writes about true crime and all the grisly details.Now, after following his family to a new town, his actions appear very stalkerish and he’s on the trail of a new story. A little girl that disappeared a year ago. When he tries doing research for the story he meets an interesting woman who leads him down the rabbit hole. A trip that would make the Divine Comedy seem like a jolly jaunt.Overall, a very disturbing read. Very well done, very well put together. The story had a lot of very vividly described gruesome scenes. The book was not for the faint of heart, nor for the squeamish. It took me over half-way through the book before the last piece clicked and I had a good understanding of what was going on and where it was likely to be going. After that point, it flowed much better for me and I could almost enjoy the book. In the end I thought it was rather brilliant but enjoy, is not the word I would use to describe my experience in reading it.