Cold on the Mountain, by Daniel Powell
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Cold on the Mountain, by Daniel Powell
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All they wanted was a vacation to the Grand Canyon. Instead, they found themselves on a collision course with a terrible, timeless darkness. Welcome to Adrienne, home to history’s worst serial killers and mass murderers. Nestled in an isolated meadow high in the Sierra Nevada, Adrienne is sort of like a cosmic lint trap. It collects the universe’s negative energy—all of our blackest human impulses—before purging that darkness back into the world in a yearly lottery. From Hitler to Bin Laden…Bundy to Gacy, Adrienne is the way station for dark energy that doesn’t just pass on—it passes through. When Phil Benson decides to take an unmarked detour over the mountain, he drives his family into the mouth of madness, where they are forced to join a captive labor pool with little hope for freedom. Escape is pointless and time stretches out into eternity, with every new day the same as the last. Sometimes, it’s better just to skip the shortcut. With echoes of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” Stephen King’s Needful Things, and Blake Crouch’s Pines series, Cold on the Mountain treads the boundary between horror and supernatural suspense.
Cold on the Mountain, by Daniel Powell- Amazon Sales Rank: #707904 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author Daniel teaches a variety of writing classes at Florida State College at Jacksonville. He has published numerous short stories and critical essays in journals, anthologies, and magazines, and his most recently released novel is the post-apocalyptic thriller The Reset. He is working on his doctoral degree in the Texts and Technology program at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Daniel enjoys fishing the tidal creeks of Duval County and jogging the haunted shell mounds of the Timucuan Preserve. He shares a home near Florida’s Intracoastal Waterway with his wife, Jeanne, and his daughter, Lyla.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Suspenseful, well-plotted and well-written - good book! By Tumbleweeds This book was a surprise. I very rarely read or enjoy fantasy books, but the author sent this to me and requested a review, so I thought I would trudge through it and try to be as objective as possible. The only fantasy books that I've read and enjoyed in the past have been Stephen King's Dark Tower series, so I was setting the bar pretty high when I learned that this book was fantasy and not a straightforward thriller.To my surprise, I found myself staying very engaged with the story. Briefly, a young family is enroute from California to Las Vegas, and takes a shortcut that turns out to be a one-way street into the town of Adrienne. This town not found on any map, and Phil, Wendy and their two children soon discover that there is no way out - all roads lead back to town. They soon learn that the inhabitants of Adrienne are the dark souls of the world's most evil human beings that ever lived - a cauldron of negative energy. Dictators, killers, despots - once they die, they come to Adrienne. Every so often, "normals" like Phil and Wendy find themselves trapped as unwilling residents of the town. Nearly 1,000 "normals" are expected to live there, work, not make any trouble and, of course, not leave. Many of Adrienne's "normals" have been there for decades. Incentives for good behavior are occasionally offered, and bad behavior is dealt with harshly.The author knows how to tell a good story. The reader gets a good sense of place and, more importantly, really gets a good feel for the main characters. The ending is satisfying and ties up all the loose ends. Although it is fantasy, I found myself really engaged in the story as Adrienne seemed to take on a life of its own. I was also relieved to find that there were no space aliens, vampires, werewolves or zombies!Upon reflection, I think that this book is every bit as good as King's fantasy books. The writing is smooth, the plot is carefully woven and it's told very well. I am always happy when I read something outside of my usual genre and find it worthwhile - enough so that I feel comfortable recommending it to others and would buy another book in this genre by this author.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. "Well, I suppose it all starts with a shortcut. Hard to pass up a good shortcut, ain't it? Damn near impossible..." By Grady Harp Florida author Daniel Powell `practices what he teaches'. This young outdoorsman teaches a variety of writing courses as a Professor of English at Florida State College at Jacksonville while pursuing a doctoral degree in Texts and Technology at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He has published fifteen books and his stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies.It takes a balanced mind to explore the immediacy of now while placing characters in a near ludicrous situation that were it not for the skill of the author could take on the make believe usually with a core in games kids play. But Daniel has more Edgar Allen Poe in him than he realizes. He has created a story so off the wall but at the same time so completely and creepily credible that he has invented a new realm of fright.COLD ON THE MOUNTAIN refers to the little strange berg called Adrienne encountered while taking a shortcut from California to Las Vegas - a dark place in the Sierra Nevada Mountains where things that go bump in the night occur. Adrienne is the gathering place for negative energy, where the populace contains the like of serial killers and mass murderers of the sort of Adolph Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Osama Bin Laden, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy et al await for their lottery number to be called in order to be re-born and provide darkness to the world in order to balance the light. Normal people who venture into this hell, most having taken a shortcut, are imprisoned as slaves, caught in the not so quicksand of horror for decades. But an interesting collection of trapped souls it is - people you'd want on your side - if you ever happened upon Adrienne.Into this black hole venture the Benson family - Phil, his wife Wendy and their two daughters Cammie and Carrie - trapped quite by accident in a captive labor pool with little hope for freedom. Escape is pointless and time stretches out into eternity, with every new day the same as the last.How Daniel provides `light' to this region of dark could be construed by some as `folksy', but after the reader has been through the pages of this terrifying novel, the light is most welcome. Yes, Daniel Powell DOES practice what he teaches - fine writing. Grady Harp, June 15
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. “Cold on the Mountain” was a fun and freaky read By Kris Sanderson “Cold on the Mountain” was a fun and freaky read! The premise is one that I think many readers will find immediately appealing: a shortcut through the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the border between Nevada and California is actually a portal to a very dark town called Adrienne. Why the darkness? The town is where serial killers and other famous murderers go when they die and where they wait for their lottery number to be called in order to be re-born and provide darkness to the world in order to balance the light.Many poor, unfortunate travelers are accidentally caught in the portal during the periods it opens to release dark energy and to restore normals who had previously gone missing. These normals have been kept in indentured servitude to the dark forces. They are there to provide labor and the occasional necessary sacrifice to denizens of Adrienne.This story centers on a family of four: Phil, his wife Wendy and their two daughters Cammie and Carrie. As they are caught in the portal, they must face the dangers inherent in living with people like John Wayne Gacy who runs the local hotel and Joseph Goebbels, the town’s current mayor. Along the way they meet Albert De Salvo a.k.a. the Boston Strangler who happens to be the landlord of another normal, Denny Wren, a San Francisco 49er also caught and who had been helping others acclimate during his two decade stay in Adrienne. An interesting cast of characters populating Adrienne provide an portrait of the town and there is some wonderful black and gallows humor.The people that have gone missing have not disappeared without notice however. There are many family members on the outside of the portal seeking resolution to the loss and hopefully recovery of the missing. This group is led by Bo, Phil’s brother and Bo’s wife Kelli. They are joined by Miriam who escaped from the portal and who had come to understand how it worked and had developed a technique to access it and the sheriff, of a skeptic of Miriam’s but willing to try anything to solve the large number of missing persons cases in what essentially amounts to the mirror town located outside of the portal, Bishop.All manner of events transpire to those on both sides of the portal. The grand finale takes place during the yearly opening of the portal where the lottery is drawn for both dark energies to be reborn and normals to re-enter Bishop. This is a thoroughly entertaining story. I was loath to put it down. I almost managed to read it in one sitting. I look forward to more stories by this author. A short book, but worthy of four stars!
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