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With Blogger acting up so badly, there's no way I'm risking doing a post with ten graphics in it to show autumn colours so I'm going my own way this time. Since it's October, I'll go with a horror theme and ten books I want to read that feature dangerous trips!
1) Jon Athan-Do Not Disturb
On their way to Las
Vegas for a pair of bachelor’s and bachelorette's parties, Colton and
Lacey run into some car trouble. They find shelter at Motel Ace, located
in Middle-of-Nowhere, Nevada. They’re welcomed by a quiet clerk and
they meet a cast of interesting travelers. They expect a quiet, romantic
night at a dingy motel as they wait for the mechanic. Then they hear
the screaming in the other rooms. Then they see the clowns outside. And
those violent, deformed clowns want to come into their room to play…
2) Darcy Coates-Hunted
22-year-old Eileen goes
missing while hiking in the remote Ashlough Forest. Five days later,
her camera is discovered washed downriver, containing bizarre photos
taken after her disappearance. Chris wants to believe Eileen is
still alive. When the police search is abandoned, he and four of his
friends create their own search party to scour the mountain range. As
they stray further from the hiking trails and the unsettling discoveries
mount, they begin to believe they’re not alone in the forest… and that
Eileen’s disappearance wasn’t an accident. By that point, it’s too late to escape.
3) Gregory Bastianelli-Snowball
A group of motorists
become stranded on a lonely stretch of highway during a Christmas Eve
blizzard and fight for survival against an unnatural force in the storm.
The gathered survivors realize a tenuous connection among them means it
may not be a coincidence that they all ended up on this highway. An
attempt to seek help leads a few of the travelers to a house in the
woods where a twisted toymaker with a mystical snow globe is hell bent
on playing deadly games with a group of people just trying to get home
for the holidays.
4) Sergio Gomez-Camp Slaughter
It’s a local legend. No
one is sure if this “Camp Slaughter” place is real or not. But a group
of college kids renting out a cabin deep in the woods of Pennsylvania
will soon realize the truth. They’ll realize the danger, too. Or rather,
the cannibal out in the woods will bring the danger to them…
5) Kealan Patrick Burke-The Tent
Hocking Hills, Ohio is
an oasis for campers, hikers, nature enthusiasts, and for those who just
want to get away and lose themselves in the wild. And as long as you follow your guide's advice and stay within the permitted areas, you can expect to survive the night. Because
deep within the dark woods, something insidious awaits, something few
have ever seen, something ancient, unknowable, and insatiable. If you go down to these woods today, you won't live to see the sunrise...
6) Jonathan Chateau-The Death Wish Game
A one-way bus ticket to Florida offers Rodney Corso the chance at a fresh start from his dead-end life in South Carolina. Unfortunately, he'd never reach his final destination. During
the ten-hour trek to Miami, Rodney and the rest of the passengers
awaken to find themselves duct-taped to their seats; stranded in the
middle of nowhere. Their captor reveals himself, informing them that
they are participants in a game of survival. “The rules are simple,” he tells them. “Follow the flares to reach the safe zone. Make it there, and you live. Stay, and they will come tear you apart.”
Who
is running this game? What awaits them out there in the darkness? And
will these flares lead to freedom or straight into a trap? If
Rodney and the others want to live long enough to find out, they will
have no choice but to uncover the dark secret that has brought them here
and face a nightmare, unlike anything they have ever experienced
before.
7) Ike Hamill-Extinct
Channel Two predicted a
blanket of snow for Thanksgiving weekend--unusual, but not alarming for
the little Maine island. What comes is a blinding blizzard, and a mass
disappearance of nearly every person Robby Pierce knows. He and his
family flee, trying to escape the snow and the invisible forces stealing
people right from the street. Miles away, Brad Jenkins battles the
same storm. Alone, he attempts to survive as snow envelops his house.
When the storm breaks, Brad makes his way south to where the snow ends
and the world lies empty. Join Brad, Robby, and the other survivors as
they fight to find the truth about the apocalypse and discover how to
live in their new world.
8) Matthew R Fleming-The Dreams
Waking up in an unknown
forest with four strangers, James has an unsettling feeling that the
group is not alone. As tension mounts and he finds himself questioning
the motives and loyalty of his companions, one of the group members
disappears, leaving only a pool of blood behind. It soon becomes clear
that something very large and unnatural is in the deep secret places of
the forest. And it knows they are there . . .
9) Greig Beck-To The Center Of The Earth
Today, caving
specialist Mike Monroe leads a crew into the world’s deepest cave in the
former Soviet Union. He’s following the path of a mad woman, and the
words of an ancient Russian alchemist, that were the basis of the
fantastical tale by Jules Verne. But what horrifying things he
finds will tear at his sanity and change everything we know about
evolution and the world, forever.
10) Matt Betts-White Anvil
Fleeing an approaching
blizzard, a military train carrying prisoners and a handful of citizens
derails in the mountains. The survivors fight to stay alive and regroup
as the terrible storm buries them in snow. Only then do they discover
the train also carried another cargo—two cars loaded with biological
experiments—genetically-altered sasquatches conditioned to annihilate
anything they find.
