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These Things Linger

By: Dan Dan Franklin, Cemetery Dance Publications
Narrated by: Joseph Stephenson
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Publisher's summary

When Alex Wilson’s estranged uncle unexpectedly dies, Alex realizes he would do just about anything to make peace with the man who had raised him as his own.

He’d even reach out to the dead.

But things more dangerous than ghosts haunt his uncle’s broken down trailer and the nearly abandoned one-gas-station town of Fair Hill just beyond. Things that can devour the living and the dead alike, and are all too ready to answer his call.

Some parts of our past never really leave us. There are things that don’t know how to die.

These things linger.

From the author of the acclaimed The Eater of Gods, These Things Linger is a twisting and unforgiving novel of desperation, depression, heritage, and of other hungry, vicious things.

©2024 Dan Franklin (P)2024 David N. Wilson
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"This grimy but energetic horror novel from Franklin (The Eater of Gods) follows Alex Wilson as he deals with supernatural horrors in the small town of Fair Hill, Md. Readers seeking a ghoulish ghost story should take a look." - Publishers Weekly

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Beautiful

This is one of my top five books ever! If you like grief horror, this is a must.

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lots of twists and turns

*lots of twists and turns
* a hard look at expectations we put on ourselves

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Beautifully written

This story was beautifully written and compelling. If I'm being honest, I had to push myself a little in the beginning because it took a few chapters to really get going, but I love a good slow burn.
The questions that this book left me with are: what would I do if I had a chance to talk to a passed loved one? And is it worth it to pursue that connection?
Dan Franklin has done it again with another BOH brawl entry and I look forward to where his books will go to in the future

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ghosts

I liked the ritual stuff, I didn't like the bleak ending. it reminded me a lot of the book IT.

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so good!

"The pain went on and on, rolling over me in waves. It carved into my arm, my chest, my leg, setting my nerves on fire. The seconds ticked on, each one feeling like a minute, an hour, a lifetime. Time is different here. There’s so much more of it."
These Things Linger by Dan Franklin

"In the face of pain there are no heroes"
George Orwell 1984

"Time was a useless concept when you were sitting awake in the dark, and in constant pain."
Stephen King: The Dark Tower

"the pain standing out like a sharp moment in time."
Mindy McGinnis, In a Handful of Dust

"hurt has a way of stretching out a heartbeat into an infinity of going colder, slower, every breath another starburst of too much to cope with, lighting up the cerebrum with constellations of anguish."
Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

"She had no real interest, but hearing her voice reassured her that she wasn’t dead.
Not yet, at least."
Stephen King: The Dark Tower

"from his pain he knew he was not dead."
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

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