Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. Feel free to grab the button & join in! Be sure to include a link to your post in the Mr. Linky at the bottom of this post!
Today I’m featuring newest ebook from one of my favorite horror authors: Liquid Fear by Scott Nicholson:
When Roland Doyle wakes up with a dead woman in his motel room, the only clue is a mysterious vial of pills bearing the label “Take one every 4 hrs or else.”
Ten years before, six people were involved in a secret pharmaceutical trial that left one of them murdered and five unable to remember what happened. Now the experiment is continuing, as Dr. Sebastian Briggs wants to finish his research into fear response and post-traumatic stress disorder. He’s backed by a major drug company and an ambitious U.S. Senator, but he also has a personal stake in the outcome.
Only by taking the mysterious pills can the survivors stave off the creeping phobias, carnal impulses, and madness that threaten to consume them. But the pills have an unexpected side effect—the survivors start remembering the terrible acts they perpetrated a decade ago. They are lured back to the Monkey House, the remote facility where the original trials took place, and Briggs has prepared it for their arrival.
Now they are trapped, they each have only one pill left, and cracks are forming in their civilized veneer.
After the pills are gone, there’s only one option. “Or else.”
Read about it at Haunted Computer or view it at Amazon, BN.com, Smashwords
Scott has created a pretty exciting blog tour for Liquid Fear. Eleven blogs are participating in this tour today. At each stop, learn about one of the characters featured in the book. Here’s a little bit about Roland Doyle:
What’s your biggest fear?
It really sucks when you wake up in strange city, your driver’s license bears your face but someone else’s name, and there’s a vial of pills with the label “Take one every 4 hrs. or else.” It sucks even more when you find a dead stranger in the bathroom.
Roland, a recovering alcohol, believes he’s fallen off the wagon and committed a terrible crime during a blackout. But the name on the driver’s license seems oddly familiar, and as he puts the pieces together, he returns to his ex-wife Wendy, who was also a volunteer in a long-ago experiment in fear response. They piece together the past and come up with a terrible conclusion, one that leads Roland to believe he’s a murderer.
Roland is in many ways the most fragile of the experiment survivors, and he believes his drinking is the cause of his memory lapses. But when he is reunited with the others, he takes on a leadership role, although responsibility is his greatest fear. But when they reach The Monkey House, all bets are off, because they are out of pills, and the only thing left is “or else.”
Dive into Liquid Fear and decide for yourself just how much fear is enough.
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Scott Nicholson is author of 20 books, including Disintegration, The Skull Ring, Speed Dating with the Dead, and The Red Church. He’s also written the children’s books If I Were Your Monster and Duncan the Punkin. Visit him at Haunted Computer.
Scott is also hosting a giveaway as part of this tour. Win a $10 gift certificate to either Amazon or BN.com! One point for tweeting this post (be sure to include @hauntedcomputer and @jennsbookshelf in your tweet), one point for Facebooking, and one point for commenting below.
The winner will be announced on April 8. If Liquid Fear—available for
99 cents at Amazon, BN.com, and Smashwords–hits the Top 100, a $100 winner will also be selected from participating blogs. Hop all the blogs and increase your odds!
Did you read a particularly frightful book this past week? Link it up here:
What a great giveaway! Please enter me.
Wow, I’m not usually into things this creepy but, at the same time, I think the concept looks really neat!
It was a fun read please count me in on the drawing
Barry
anamchara(at)gmail.com
Just bought can’t wait to read
Candy
dragonfly1976 at gmail dot com
Your versatility is amazing, if I hadn’t know you were the author I never would have guessed. I’ve loved all your books, but this may be my favorite so far.
Gail in Florida
cowgirl3000 at gmail dot com
Sounds like a good story.
sgiden at verizon.net
Please enter me in contest. Sounds like a really great book. Tore923@aol.com
Got it, now I need to read it!
lorraine_lanning [at] yahoo [dot] com
I’m going to copy and paste at each site, I don’t have a lot of time to comment today
Another interesting character, alcoholic this time?
http://twitter.com/#!/darlyn5/status/53915933470752768
Got it! Ready for the rainy Sunday in Santa Monica.
Christa
cpolkinhorn(at)verizon(dot)net
Hey, everyone, thanks so much for your support and purchases, and good luck in the drawings! We’re close to the $100 prize trigger so bug the heck out of your Amazon friends! Thanks for hosting, Jenn, you run a fun blog!
Scott Nicholson
Twitter: JaidisShaw
says:
Thanks for the contest! Please enter me!
JaidisShaw at yahoo dot com
Bought this earlier and am eager to dive in this weekend! Looks fantastic.
You must stop teasing me!!
Vivien
deadtossedwaves at gmail dot com
Looking forward to it.
tweet – http://twitter.com/#!/DonnaS1/status/54086289154252800
bacchus76 at myself dot com
Thanks for the chance!
spamscape [at] gmail [dot] com
Can’t wait to read it, thanks for the chance!
This sounds great. Thanks for the chance to win.
+1 Tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/Melanie_2006/status/54222422982918146
peacelily_2006(at)yahoo(dot)com
Twitter: truebookaddict
says:
These characters sound really intriguing! I’m enjoying learning about all of them. Thanks for the chance!
tweeted: http://twitter.com/#!/truebookaddict/status/54311291644416000
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/michellestockardmiller/posts/122279924513866
I’d love to play please
lesly7ch(at)yahoo(dot)com
Would love to win! Thanks for the contest!
Hi everyone, great turnout! Give it a try, Pam, it’s not so scary!
Hope you enjoy it, Gail, Candy, Lorraine, David, Barry–please consider writing a review unless you hate it–in which case, don’t! LOL
Darlyn, not based on anyone WE know!
Please be sure to tweet and facebook to improve your odds, everyone! Also, a good surge in sales will trigger the $100 gift card that YOU might win! Please consider gifting it to your friends who like mysteries, thrillers, and suspense! (a 99 cent surprise)
Scott Nicholson
Scott’s Liquid Fear, right from the first sentence to the last, kept me entertained. I’m a wrinkly, so have read heaps… Scott rocks!
Going to read this very soon!!
Twitter: BrendaBWallace
says:
As soon as I get some reading time, Liquid Fear is first on my list. Looks fantastic!
This sounds SO good! l just went and brought it and l am now going through the blog tour =)
Tweeted – http://twitter.com/#!/BooksforCompany/status/55046405630328833
Commented =)
“It sucks even more when you find a dead stranger in the bathroom.”
That depends on how attractive the dead stranger is…
Hee hee! Cha-cha-cha, Daddy-O!
Sounds like a great book. Thanks for this!
Tweeted
http://twitter.com/#!/darkmotives/status/56424029606772738
Lorraine Lanning, you have been selected by Random.org as our winner! Come on down, you’re the next contestant on the Price Is…oh wait, never mind! You win.
Thanks everyone for helping spread the word about Liquid Fear and I hope you’ll come back and visit Jenn often. You’re also invited to join my newsletter for future giveaways:
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Scott