02422cam a2200361 i 4500 616251595 TxAuBib 20230113120000.0 221115s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781639101702 hbk.)ck 1639101705 hbk.)ck (OCoLC)1351691727 TxAuBib rda Markert, James, 1974-, author. The nightmare man : a novel / J.H. Markert. Night-mare man. First edition. New York : Crooked Lane, 2023. 326 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Blackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of Crooked Tree. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The Scarecrow. Now, on the eve of the book's release, the terrible story within begins to unfold in real life. Detective Mills arrives at the scene of a gruesome murder: a family butchered and bundled inside cocoons stitched from corn husks, and hung from the rafters of a barn, eerily mirroring the opening of Bookman's latest novel. When another family is killed in a similar manner, Mills, along with his daughter, rookie detective Samantha Blue, is determined to find the link to the book--and the killer--before the story reaches its chilling climax. As the series of "Scarecrow crimes" continues to mirror the book, Ben quickly becomes the prime suspect. He can't remember much from the night he finished writing the novel, but he knows he wrote it in The Atrium, his grandfather's forbidden room full of numbered books. Thousands of books. Books without words. As Ben digs deep into Blackwood's history he learns he may have triggered a release of something trapped long ago--and it won't stop with the horrors buried within the pages of his book. 20230207. Murder Investigation Fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Novelists Fiction. Books and reading Fiction. Mansions Fiction. Horror tales. Horror fiction. TXDCK