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The Rest Stop

By: Eric Butler
Narrated by: Micah Cottingham
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The author of The Popelick Massacre and Donn, TX returns with a grindhouse tale in the vein of TCM and House of 1000 Corpses.

A rest stop with a reputation for abandoned cars in the middle of nowhere, and a family on their way to a new home turns into a tale of terror.

Sometimes, it's better to keep driving, no matter how tired you are.

©2023 Eric Butler (P)2023 Eric Butler
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The Rest Stop is a terrifying tale that will have your heart pounding and leave you breathless. Eric Butler weaves an intense story full of vivid imagery and unpredictable twists, guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat till the nail-biting finale.

Step into Eric Butler's Rest Stop if you dare...

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There have been a lot of tales warning about cannibals hiding out in the woods. What makes this one different is the constant terror throughout, and how it ended. Told like an intellectual version of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a family of three make what could very well be their last stop. A quick and brutal tale of psychological and physical torture capped off by an epic chase scene.

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Short, intense, and shocking, no time was wasted getting the reader into the story. Readers are shoved in face first into a terrifying and gruesome opening scene where the action starts before the setting is really established. “The punch you never see coming,” never stops punching you in the face as you read along. While a lot of the horror is off to the side/off camera, it somehow becomes more awful to know it’s going on while the protagonist can only imagine. There is not a moment where the reader is not silently willing the captives to get out and be rescued. The captors are unknown minus their names and what they say, but their intentions are at best vague.



I never stopped cringing through this story and at the end I shuddered. It never ends.



I now have new feels for road trips. “shivers”

Fast and Intense

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If you want to be disrespected while eating salad with olives, this is the book for you! I only recently got over my fear of using public bathrooms at my old ass age. Thanks, Eric Butler, I'll go ahead and move on to adult diapers.

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Butler has a way of writing so that the scenes play like movies in my mind. I've probably said that before in a review, but it's because it's true. If two movies could mate and create a book, this would be a tangling of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Turistas. Oh yeah, and of course the Rest Stop movies because how can I not mention those greats in this review?
This tale had a bit of blood and gore and very detailed graphic scenes which I'm sure will grab the extreme crowd (which I am and loved this read). Cottingham has become a familiar voice for me, which is comforting (for some odd unexplainable reason) when listening to gruesome violence

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