Gerard Houarner

Books

In the Country of Dreaming Caravans
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 48,850. Language: English. Published: August 27, 2022 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
Once and now, a little girl who plays with ghosts and spirits is lost in the desert… No family, no friends, just memories of an old life in a world of cities and cars, and a head full of visions and dreams that don’t belong in the world. She likes to tell stories. Many times, she wonders what she is worth to the living who sell her, to the spirits and ghosts and djinn and ghuls she plays with.
Visions Through a Shattered Lens
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 167,740. Language: English. Published: January 24, 2016 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
What visions may come, when peering into the darkness through the shattered lens of a broken world: —the sins of the father being vested on the son in "The Chain-Lynched Man." —the nature of angels, the price of their existence in “The Unborn.” —the horrors of drug addiction, in "Bone House." —Lovecratian cosmic dread, with a distinctly un-Lovecraftian heroine, in “Out of the Shadows.”
Road From Hell
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 153,480. Language: English. Published: May 16, 2015 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Horror » General
Max the Assassin is in Hell. Tormented by vengeful spirits and his secret self, the demonic Beast, Max suffers for the pain he caused when he lived, and for losing his chance at redemption through love. Angel, Max's son, is devastated by his father's death and wanders the desert between the worlds, searching for a way home. Can Hell be broken? Can the dead return to life?
Road to Hell
Series: The Resurrection Cycle, Book 4. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 129,870. Language: English. Published: August 4, 2013 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Horror » General
Max is a man. An assassin, to be exact. But within him lurks the Beast, an unholy demon that drives Max to kill – and to commit acts even more hideous. Throughout the years, the Beast has taught Max well, and Max has become quite proficient in his chosen field. He is an assassin unlike any other. To put it mildly. But now Max has a son, an unnatural offspring named Angel, born of Max's pain.
Waiting for Mister Cool
Series: The Resurrection Cycle, Book 3. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 72,240. Language: English. Published: May 15, 2013 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction
Max, an assassin driven by terrible appetites and a demonic inner Beast, finds himself mistaken for another, far more ordinary killer hired to fight for one of two rival groups vying for control of a remote, abandoned government base with its own secrets and supernatural power. Caught between two even greater evils, Max is drawn into a war that will feed terrible human and supernatural appetites
A Blood of Killers
Series: The Resurrection Cycle, Book 2. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 171,050. Language: English. Published: April 16, 2012 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Anthologies » Horror
Prolific horror author Houarner (The Oz Suite ) assembles a disturbing collection of 13 reprints and 12 originals.
The Beast That Was Max
Series: The Resurrection Cycle, Book 1. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 116,700. Language: English. Published: February 19, 2011 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
Max walks in two worlds; he resides in the borderland between the world of shadowy government conspiracy and the world of vengeful ghosts and evil gods, between living flesh and supernatural spirits – between life and death. For Max is the ultimate killer, an assassin powered by the Beast, an inner demon that enables him to kill – and to do it incredibly well. Includes Tree of Shadows - new!

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