-Author of Dark Fiction-
L.V. Gaudet
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Come see what secrets lurk on the dark and dusty shelf of a fiction writer.
BOOKS
Books: The ultimate submergence into another world.
Come see what secrets lurk on the dark and dusty shelf of a fiction writer.
The McAllister Series Book 1
Where the Bodies Are
What kind of dark secret pushes a man to commit the unimaginable, even as he is sickened by his own actions?
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A young woman is found discarded with the trash, brutally beaten and left for dead. More bodies begin to appear, left where they are sure to be found and cause a media frenzy. The killer’s reality blurs between past and present with a compulsion driven by a dark secret locked in a fractured mind. Overcome by a blind rage that leaves him wallowing in remorse with the bodies of victim after victim. He is desperate to stop killing. The search for the killer will lead to his dark secret buried in the past, something much larger than a man-on-woman killing spree.
The McAllister Series Book 2
The McAllister Farm
Take a step back in time to learn the secret behind the bodies in Where the Bodies Are
*Warning: If Old Yeller triggers you, this book will too.
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The McAllisters are a private people who do not like to have attention drawn on themselves. Their own family history is as dark as the secret hiding in the woods. But when a serial killer starts murdering young women, they quickly find themselves drawn into the spotlight when the town decides William McAllister is the killer.
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The attention is a threat to both William McAllister's profession and his family. He has no choice but to find the killer himself.
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He might not like what he learns.
The McAllister Series Book 3
Hunting Michael Underwood
Step deeper into the twisted mind of a serial killer as he slips further into madness in this disturbing psychological thriller.
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Find out what happens to Michael Underwood as the story of Where the Bodies Are continues.
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Hunting Michael Underwood follows on the heels of book one, Where the Bodies Are, bringing the first two stories and their characters together as the search for the killer continues.
Michael Underwood has vanished and everyone is searching for him. Detective Jim McNelly is determined to not stop until he finds him. Working with the detective, Lawrence Hawkworth is still chasing the bigger story he knows is behind the bodies. Jason McAllister knows he must stop the killer he created before he goes too far. He may be the only one who can stop him.
Unable to let go of his barely remembered past and the search for his sister, the killer goes looking for Jason McAllister's past and his family.
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The McAllister Series Book 4
Killing David McAllister
David McAllister must die.
Crazy comes to a head in this disturbing psychological thriller.
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When an unbalanced serial killer sets his sights on a little girl, there is only one way it can end. Someone will die.
Sometimes the only way to stop a monster is to kill it. He has gone by many names, but he was raised as David McAllister and finding what he is looking for is not enough to quiet the darkness inside him.
While Detective Jim McNelly and his report friend Lawrence Hawkworth continue to hunt them down, the McAllisters move into hiding. David McAllister's psychosis continues, but now Sophie's daughter is in danger. He believes she is his sister Cassie as the small child he lost.
Having found his now adult sister Cassie does not stop his past from tormenting him.
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Garden Grove
Garden Grove Meadows "Where Families Come to Live"
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Who wants to stop construction at the new Garden Grove residential development? Everyone, it seems.
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A new housing development promises a better future in a growing bedroom community. A project that seems to be the eye of a storm of strange events. Plagued with vandalism, the work crew poisoned, altered blueprints, and human remains intentionally planted for the crew to find.
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Who is trying to stop the development?
The Gypsy Queen
1952 - The end of the paddlewheel boat era
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Travis discovers the newest get rich quick scheme in an abandoned riverboat. Dreaming of the wealth and glamour she will bring, he becomes obsessed with rebuilding her.
Darius sees onl rot, decay, and their ruination in the old boat. Travis's best friend and unwilling business partner, Darius is unwilling to abandon Travis to his fate. He is committed to seeing it through, regardless of the costs to himself.
Struggling to rebuild her together, they are pitted against everyone from the Shipbuilders' Union to the even more ruthless local casino boss, who desires to possess the Gypsy Queen himself.
As Travis and Darius's lives become further intertwined with the Gypsy Queen, the strange accidents surrounding the boat escalate. Under the Gypsy Queen's Spell, Travis is oblivious to the sense of dread that fills those who enter the boat as she awakens with a hunger for blood. The Gypsy Queen's dark past will not be forgotten.
Old Mill Road
Everything leads to one place . . . the abandoned mill down the old Mill Road.
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Twelve years ago four kids found something in the woods. Now someone found it again.
The abandoned mill off the old Mill Road has a dark history that has been told for generations, a story about something sinister haunting the woods.
Unable to remember the events of twelve years ago and troubled by the haunted look he sees every time he looks at his sister's eyes, Nick returned to learn what happened.
Still obsessed with Felicia and NIck's family suddenly vanishing int he night, David is determined to get answers from Nick, while his brother Ian tries to temper his obsession.
Everything leads to one place . . . the abandoned mill down the old Mill Road.
All Dark Places 3
A Dragon Soul Press Anthology
Includes:
Dark Shadows by L. V. Gaudet
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Manitoban author Lori Gaudet’s short story “Dark Shadows” is making its debut in Dragon Soul Press’s new horror anthology All Dark Places 3, released in print and eBook October 30, 2021.
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Dark Shadows by L. V. Gaudet: Grayson is introduced in this inaugural foray into his world. When a bus crashes on a desolate highway, the survivors are picked off one at a time by faceless ghouls in the night. Except for Grayson. Grayson has a unique problem. Everywhere he goes, he sees monsters and witnesses their cold collection of the spirits of the dying. Called devourers of souls by some, he is certain they are after him for reasons he cannot begin to guess at. An artist by nature, his sketches are more than prophetic. They mirror the disturbing assaults of the soul takers.
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You can find Dragon Soul Press’s anthology All Dark Places 3 with Dark Shadows by L. V. Gaudet here http://books2read.com/ADP3.
Haunt
A Dragon Soul Press Anthology
Includes:
The Darkest Night by L. V. Gaudet
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Manitoban author Lori Gaudet’s short story “The Darkest Night” leaves its wonderous blight in Dragon Soul Press’s horror anthology Haunt, released September 30, 2022.
Haunt is available here: http://books2read.com/DSPHaunt
Grayson’s world falls prey to The Darkest Night.
You met Grayson in the story Dark Shadows, published in Dragon Soul Press’s All Dark Places 3 anthology, where a bus crashing on a desolate highway brought the faceless ghouls in the night. Called devourers of souls by some, they come to take the souls of the dead. Grayson is not in the story this time, but the soul takers are.
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The Darkest Night by L. V. Gaudet: As dusk descends on a cemetery, people awake, confused how they came to be there. They are locked in. Shadows deepen and night falls, bringing disturbing terror with it.
Kailyn almost screamed. Panic clenched her chest in a tight fist that would not let her breathe. It felt like it stopped her heart from pounding, although she could still hear its thrumming low and persistent in her ears.
The skeletal face was withered, the skin mottled dry and papery wrinkled. The sunken cheeks sunk further when it opened its mouth and brought the other skeletal hand up, placing the index finger to its crinkled lips in a “hush” sign.
Her eyes locked with its, mesmerized by those shocking eyes, unable to look away. The flesh around them seemed almost melted, sagging into the wrinkled cheeks, the red watery flesh behind the bottom lids visible. The eyes were shot through with a thin web of veins and discolored, filmy looking. The hair framing the face hung down dry and stiff in a tangled ruined bun in shades of white and grey.
When the voice came, she was surprised it sounded anything like human. It was dry and cracked.
“Come, little girl, hide,” it whispered at her.
Kailyn was too terrified to move. The skeletal hands gripped her arms below the shoulders, and it pulled her back away from the shambling shadow in the mist.
A sob caught in her throat. Trapped and unable to escape, it became a solid lump that threatened to choke off her air.
The bony arms wrapped around her, and the cracked voice whispered in her ear.
“Shush.”
It dragged her down deeper into darkness, into the cool cave-like stillness of a hollow inside narrow concrete walls. It huddled there, hugging the little girl against its skeletal thin frame, shivering. In a low moaning voice, it began to hum very quietly, its cheek against her hair and mouth close to her ear.
The shadows come for them. Unstoppable. The soul takers. Each hour that presses towards dawn, more are taken. They cannot escape. Some abandon hope, acquiescing calmly to their fate. When the sun finally comes, only one will be left. She is different from the rest.
“Kailyn sat there huddled, whimpering and hugging her legs. She rocked back and forth and stared wild eyed at nothing, saying over and over and over, “I'm not dead. I'm not dead. I'm not dead.”“
The Darkest Night includes the poem “Twi the Light” at the beginning..
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You can find Dragon Soul Press’s anthology Haunt with The Darkest Night by L. V. Gaudet here http://books2read.com/DSPHaunt.
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