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Every story ever I've loved has shown me something beautiful in an otherwise dark and twisted world.
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Another life form has crawled out of the cellar of my unconscious. I didn’t think my first novel, Tanner’s Glen, had a sequel, but I was wrong. I found it down there, scuttling in the dark, pale and malformed, but with a savage desire to live. So, I decided to feed it, and see if it would grow.
Tanner’s Glen was a simple story: Lonely boy meets a monster in the woods. Boy falls in love with Monster, though he’s sure she plans to eat him. Then, government agents come to kill Monster and boy fights to protect her. But before agents can get them, Monster kills agents and…well, you’ve read the story. You know how it ends.
Noah Weismann’s story is finished, I think. But long after he’d vanished into that New Hampshire wilderness, I kept thinking about all the wonderful things I discovered in the world he left behind.
I kicked these curiosities around with no real intention of doing anything with them.
Then, one day, I saw a monster in the woods...
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When the floods return to the valley, Noah Weismann isn’t afraid. He doesn’t believe in river devils, and his Uncle Tanner’s sudden disappearance was a lifetime ago. The only things to fear are the ghosts of his past and the monsters in his own head. But when a mysterious creature rises from the water, he’s only begun to know terror...
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Second Chances
What if you could do it all again?
Bill Miller lives a lonely widower's life. After the unsolved disappearance of his only child, followed shortly by the death of his wife, he's spent the past three decades gradually isolating himself from his neighbors, the news, and the world at large. When a thunderstorm blossoms into an unexpected tornado, he knows his dilapidated house won't stand up to its fury. He's more than willing to close the book on his earthly existence, anyway.
What would you do differently?
But when the furious winds fade, he finds himself waking up to a strange afterlife in the form of a moment forgotten in time, in a mysteriously restored house and the body of a younger Bill. A time when his wife and daughter should still be alive, yet are curiously absent. Armed with the knowledge of the ending that awaits them all, Bill searches for a path to a better outcome for his family.
Would anything change, in the end?
But to do so, he must dig deep into the shadows of the past, to face his own failings and seek answers to the questions that haunt his older self. All the while, reality shifts around him, with each step forward dredging up a new nightmare. Can he fight his wretched future by righting the wrongs of the past? Or will he find that his hands are tied by the threads of fate, and that you really can't go home again?
About DAN
The stories that speak to me are the ones that bring us face to face with what we fear most. Not death or violence or pain, but the unspeakable horror of being unloved and cast aside, by our friends, our species, the universe. Everything I write is an attempt to confront that fear. Sometimes, I get close.