Title: Maggie's GraveAuthor: David Sodergren
First Published: October 8, 2020
Publisher: Self-Published
Pages: 268
Genre: Horror, Splatterpunk
Format: Ebook
Source: Kindle Unlimited
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Synopsis:
The small Scottish town of Auchenmullan is dead, and has been for years. It sits in the shadow of a mountain, forgotten and atrophying in the perpetual gloom.
Forty-seven residents are all that remain.
There's nothing to do there, nothing to see, except for a solitary grave near the top of the mountain.
MAGGIE WALL BURIED HERE AS A WITCH reads the faded inscription.
But sometimes the dead don't stay buried. Especially when they have unfinished business.
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What can I even say about Maggie’s Grave other than that it was one of the most intense and thrilling books I’ve ever read! A haunting folk tale about a witch who looms over a dying Scottish town and the dumb young adults who inadvertently awaken her. It is B movie camp at its finest that starts slow but puts the pedal to the metal, it’s over the top and gratuitous in all the right ways.
Maggie Wall’s gloriously brutal entrance is a scene that has lived rent-free in my head for months. The second half of the novel had me in a chokehold while metal music was playing in my head, I stayed up all night racing to finish the book.
When I finished reading, I spent hours recounting the entire story to my husband absolutely raving about the book! Maggie’s Grave instantly catapulted David Sodergren to the top of my list of authors I need to read more books by, and I’m so glad I finally sat down to give one of his books a shot.
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“There was no justice. Just men with a perverse pleasure in the destruction of women’s bodies.”
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About David Sodergren
David Sodergren lives in Scotland with his wife Heather and his best friend, Boris the Pug.
Growing up, he was the kind of kid who collected rubber skeletons and lived for horror movies. Not much has changed since then.
Since the publication of his first novel, The Forgotten Island, he has written and published a further five novels, from slashers to gialli to folk horror to weird westerns. He is currently working on several more novels, including a trilogy of violent revenge stories to be published in 2022.
David Sodergren also writes extreme horror under the pen name Carl John Lee.
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