Bryan Cassiday

About

I write thrillers and horror stories. I wrote "Zombie Maelstrom," "Helter Skelter" (2011), "The Anaconda Complex" (2011), "The Kill Option" (2010), "Blood Moon: Thrillers and Tales of Terror" (2009), and "Fete of Death" (2007).

A Shadow in Yucatan

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A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.

Story Behind The Book

Having seen scores of Hammer films and read Bram Stoker's "Dracula," I've always wanted to write a vampire story. So I did. It's called "I Kill for Your Blood" and it's included in my new book "Blood Moon: Thrillers and Tales of Terror." Not all of these stories are supernatural, but they are all chilling and violent. Not for the faint of heart. Blood will flow . . .

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"The writing bounces nicely along and readers will be eager to find out what happens. . . . It's definitely worth checking out." --Bailey the Bookworm

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