Title: The Eidola Project
Author: Robert Herold
Genre: Paranormal/Supernatural/Horror
Book Blurb:
A gothic version of the X-Files and Supernatural, The Eidola Project follows a 19th-century team of ghost hunters who become ensnared in a deadly investigation of a haunted house. They are a psychology professor, his assistant, an African American physicist, a young sideshow medium, and a traumatized Civil War veteran, each possessing unique strengths and weaknesses. Will any of them survive?
Excerpt:
Sarah retrieved the lamp and twisted the peg. The outhouse door swung open on its own, and she gasped.
“Momma?” Sarah asked as she held out her lantern. No. A ruined version of Molly stood in the doorway.
Before her disappearance, people often commented on the sixteen-year-old’s beauty, but in the last twenty-eight days birds pecked out her pretty blue eyes, and maggots now swam in the sockets. Molly’s head hung to the left at an odd angle. Her skin looked mottled with patches of gray, blue, and black. A beetle crawled out of Molly’s half-opened mouth and darted back in.
Sarah’s heart leaped to her throat, and she jumped back. She lost her footing, fell onto the outhouse seat, and dropped the lantern to the floor. She bent to retrieve it; thankful the glass globe did not break. Sarah looked up and saw an empty doorway.
Impossible, she told herself. Must’ve dozed off, had a nightmare, and woke up when I dropped the lamp. Her heart still pounded in her chest, and Sarah took a deep breath to calm herself.
Holding the lamp before her once more, she crept out…
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What makes your featured book a must-read?
The entire Eidola Project Series (three novels so far—a fourth on the way!) won 1st Place in the 2022 Paranormal Romance Guild's Reviewer's Choice Awards. Other awards earned by this title: Winner 2020 Reader Ready Award; 2nd Place 2019 PRG's Reviewers Choice Awards; Finalist in the Chanticleer International Book Awards.
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Author Biography:
Seattleite Robert Herold is the author of the award-winning Eidola Project novels, which follows a team of 19th-century ghost hunters who become entangled in deadly supernatural investigations, and the award-winning Seattle Coven Tales, about a grad student who becomes targeted for sacrifice by a modern coven of witches. In addition, Mr. Herold’s work has appeared in anthologies and on the Saturday Evening Post’s website. Find out more at: https://robertheroldauthor.com
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