It was a day unlike any other in the town of Deacon’s Landing, Connecticut.  It was the day Kenny Atkins cornered Matty Anderson in the locker room on what turned out to be the final day of classes at Deacon’s Landing Middle School. When the school is destroyed by fire, the teachers speak in hushed tones of “Dark Annie” Carlson, one of their own who vanished mysteriously shortly before the start of the school year.     For nearly three decades the school remains dark and empty. Now the school is rebuilt and ready to accept students once again.  A series of seemingly random events arouses the suspicions of police officer Matthew Anderson.  Cryptic warnings from unrelated accident and assault victims and the return of Anderson’s childhood nemesis bring the legend of Dark Annie back to the forefront.  Anderson confides in two old friends, Brian Murphy and Holly Wayne, and together they must face  the secret horror buried beneath the idyllic façade of Deacon’s Landing.     In order to save the town’s children they will be forced to confront the truth, the legend and the terror of Dark Annie.

Dark Annie

Literature & Fiction

Christiano, Joseph J.

Genre Fiction

Tell-Tale Publishing Group

For Nick Wade, life was an endless series of heroin-fuelled highs and lows. Alienated from most of his remaining family, Nick leads a vagabond existence as one of West Philly’s lost addicts. When his girlfriend is killed in a car accident, Nick is ordered to Springbrook Healing and Recovery Center. There he forges an uneasy friendship with his roommate, an alcoholic named John Curran, and meets fellow heroin addict Sarah McCallister. As Nick struggles with the agony and sickness of withdrawal, he finds no solace even at night, when his dreams are filled with images of blood and murder.

The Shadow Man

Twins David and Diane Walsh, when together, can communicate with the dead. They have parlayed their gift into fame and fortune as the hosts/stars of the reality series The Cemetery Game. The inevitable excesses that come with their success lead the twins to a public relations disaster and they are forced into retirement. After nineteen months out of the public eye, David and Diane are lured back into the spotlight by their manager, Joyce Clark. If they can help an elderly woman communicate with her deceased husband, then perhaps the public-and more importantly, the network-will accept them once again. The twins are reluctant to accept the job, but Joyce is persuasive and they soon find themselves in Lansing, Michigan, in the home of Emily Andrews and her son, Brian. When the twins attempt to contact the elderly woman's husband, they are confronted by a spirit of untold power and evil. David and Diane are separated. While David searches frantically for his sister, Diane finds herself a prisoner within her own body. She is forced to watch as the maleficent spirit commits acts of unspeakable evil toward all who cross its path. Separated and with their powers at their weakest, the Walsh twins must navigate an unfamiliar city to reunite in time to stop the ancient, evil entity from fulfilling its unknowable plan. The Cemetery Game is about to begin again...

The Cemetery Game

Macabre Ink

Joseph J. Christiano takes readers back to the moon with the release of the Author¿s Edition of his best-selling novel, MOON DUST. The luxury starliner Sovereign of the Stars makes an unscheduled and unannounced landing at Armstrong Base, mankind¿s first permanent facility on the moon. Armstrong¿s commander, Colonel Michael Hansen, boards the vessel and discovers the mummified remains of the passengers and crew. A single comatose survivor is found. A team from earth arrives to begin an investigation. They are led by Lindsay Dwyer, a bureaucrat who far outranks Hansen, and who becomes the de facto commander of Armstrong. Things begin to go wrong soon after their arrival. Several of Armstrong¿s personnel are found dead, their corpses mummified. Hansen orders and evacuation of the facility only to discover the base has been locked down from Earth. Facing a terror of unknown origin and a mutinous executive officer, Hansen must find a way to keep his people alive long enough for them to discover how to defeat their enemy¿an enemy that reduces its victims to moon dust.

Moon Dust

Tell-Tale Publishing Group, LLC

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