Dead Man's Song
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DEAD MAN’S SONG is the second book of the Pine Deep Trilogy, a series of supernatural thrillers by Bram Stoker Award winning author Jonathan Maberry.
The first book in the trilogy, Ghost Road Blues, won the 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel.[1] The book was also nominated for Novel of the Year but was edged out by ‘‘Stephen King. Publishers Weekly called the book “horror on a grand scale…reminiscent of Stephen King’s heftier works.” Ghost Road Blues focuses on the manhunt for vicious serial killer Karl Ruger who has been drawn to Pine Deep by an ancient evil.
In Dead Man’s Song, Malcolm Crow and local newsman Willard Fowler Newton, begin tracking the backstory of the events of thirty years ago, while at the same time Vic Wingate and Karl Ruger quietly begin building an army of the undead to prepare for Griswold’s return. They intend to launch the Red Wave, a massive attack scheduled for Halloween Night. While Crow and Newton are down in Dark Hollow, a remote spot where Griswold both lived and died, one of Ruger’s companions, Boyd, has become a strange kind of mindless vampire. While Griswold’s ghost sets a trap for Crow, Wingate sends Boyd after Val Guthrie.
The series concluded with Bad Moon Rising.
