The Digger's Rest (52 page)

An Unfinished House
by K. Patrick Malone

• Gold Medal Winner, Horror, Nation
  Indie Excellence Book Awards, 2010
  

• Bronze Medal Winner, Foreword Magazine Book
  of the Year Awards, 2010
  

• Winner, USA Book News National Best
  Books Awards, Horror, 2010
  

• Winner, Arizona Author's Association Awards
  (2nd prize), 2010
  

• 1st Runner-Up, New York Book Festival,
  2010
  

• Honorable Mention, Los Angeles Book
  Festival, 2010
  

• Honorable Mention, Nashville Book Festival,
  2010
  

• Honorable Mention, New England Book
  Festival, 2010
  

• Honorable Mention, London Book Festival,
  2010
  

• Honorable Mention, Paris Book Festival
  2010
  

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Other Works by K. Patrick Malone

An Unfinished House

Steel yourselves readers, because nothing
you have ever read can prepare you for An Unfinished House, K.
Patrick Malone’s most harrowing and uncompromising foray yet into
the darkness of both the natural and supernatural, and New York
Book Festival 2009 Fiction First Runner Up.

Michael Golden, a hard working, every day
builder and family man comes home from work one evening to find
that his shy home maker wife has been killed in a car accident
leaving him with two small children in the historic old colonial
house they’d just bought. But something no one could have ever
imagined happens when an outlaw biker arrives on his doorstep with
a secret so devastating that it rocks An Unfinished House and those
who live there to the very core of their existence; tearing the
face off of human emotion and redefining the meaning of the word
“love” with a haunting that will peel the paint off your walls and
an ending that will leave you . . .shattered.

Feel welcome, readers, come into An
Unfinished House, comforted by the smell of cinnamon baking in the
kitchen and ducks swimming on the placid lake out back. But be
warned, you will not leave the same way because, by the end,
everything you ever thought you knew about life, death and love
will have changed completely. No one comes away from Unfinished . .
untouched. And as such, the author, K. Patrick Malone and
publisher, A-Argus Books, attach a five hanky warning alert as part
of this disclaimer.

Beyond The Pale

From the multi-award winning novelist now
comes a collection of stories by one of modern horror’s most potent
voices. Beginning with a ghostly romance (Tableau Vivant) through
two wet hanky hauntings (ARMY BRAT and One Little Indian Boy) to
downright wickedness (Nice, little old…) and the conscience
shocking finale of the title story (Beyond the Pale), Malone once
again delivers gripping, edge-of-your seat tension reflected
through the prism of his unique brand of character driven, thought
provoking spookery. So settle in, readers, put your feet up in your
most comfortable chair on a stormy night or by a roaring fire, and
be inextricably drawn into the shadowy emotional funhouse of
America’s Master of the Macabre. But be warned, grab the safety bar
and hold on tight, because once the ride begins there will be no
turning back until the very last white knuckled word.

Inside a Haunted Mind

Small town police Chief, Terry Chagford is
dying . . . of fright. The evil he thought he'd destroyed when he
burned down the old Victorian house on the edge of town is back and
it is after him. . . but not only him. It also wants Martin
Welliver, the World Trade Center survivor he'd dragged from a car
in the river not long before. Welliver, in an unfortunate twist of
fate, bought the house hoping to find peace and quiet from a
violent and uncaring world only to act as a conduit to revive the
evil waiting for someone like him to give it life. But what do the
Mah Jong tiles and dreams of murder have to do with it all? What is
the link between the house and the old woman with the Mah Jong tile
bracelet? Chagford is a man riddled with personal demons. With his
growing thirst for alcohol, increasing dependence on pain killers
and bouts of crippling depression, could it be that it is all just
the terrifying sum of his crumbling mind? And why can he not get it
out of his mind?

The Diggers Rest

Following his successful best-seller “Inside
a Haunted Mind,” K. Patrick Malone delivers a new spine-chilling
exploration into the macabre. A worthy successor to King, James,
Jackson and Lee, Malone is comfortably situated at the pinnacle of
his profession. From the pen of horror’s best-selling author, K.
Patrick Malone, comes another blood-curdling excursion into the
eerie world of the unknown.

King Arthur was just a fairy tale king. Or
was he? Demons and evil spirits are just fables to scare children.
Or are they. Do you dare find out?

Southwest England is the setting as Malone
sends his motley team of art archaeologists to explore a
long-concealed medieval castle ruins in search of the legendary
King Arthur. What they uncover, however, is a legend much older,
much more mind-rending and soul-shredding than anything anyone
could have conceived.

As with all of Malone’s works, this latest
will mesmerize readers and keep them on the very edge of their
seats until the last haunting word in an ending that defies
belief.

The House At Miller’s Court

“The Bookend Masterpiece to last year’s
award-winning An Unfinished House, K. Patrick Malone has created
the perfect companion read in The House at Miller’s Court.”

Readers can now add Head Football Coach
George Lathero to Malone’s Terry Chagford (Inside a Haunted Mind),
Mitchell Bramson (The Digger’s Rest) and Michael Golden (An
Unfinished House) as the most memorable protagonists in recent
horror literature. Big, handsome All American George and his pretty
new wife, Renee, try to revive their lives and their loves when the
move into the Civil War reconstruction manor house called Miller’s
Court with her fourteen year old son, Robin, George’s troublesome,
party-boy brother, Will, and Renee’s cancer-surviving Tammy Wynette
era mother, Vivian. All seems to be glorious for them, finally
happy for the first time in their lives, until Renee calls George
at work one day with ominous words. “George, Robin’s has a fever,”
sparking a journey of love and loss, guilt and shame for them all
as each are confronted by the ghosts within themselves. But why is
Robin burning? Uncontrollable temperatures leave doctors baffled
and lead George Lathero into a life changing redefinition of the
meaning of “Father Love” for a son that his not his own.

Once again, Malone has created an ensemble
of indelible characters and a thought-provoking haunting that will
leave readers on the edge of their seats, gasping as secrets are
revealed and leading to an ending that is nothing less than. . .
incendiary.

“Don’t cry, George. It’s only thunder.”

About our Author

Winner of more awards in the horror category
than any small press author in history, K. Patrick Malone never
ceases to amaze. His spine-tingling tales of terror in his novel
Inside a Haunted Mind was only exceeded by his second into the
excursion of mind-numbing horror in The Diggers’ Rest. Just when it
seemed that Malone had reached the pinnacle of horror, he surpassed
himself with yet another masterpiece, An Unfinished House. Surely
that had to be THE ONE, but no! In his best yet, The House at
Miller’s Street, Malone has ascended to the top of his profession,
among the best writers of the 21st century.