Liam and Pierce live in a country ravaged by a strange sickness. It’s called the CRUD and it turns its victims into rabid killing machines known as the Plaguers. The authorities wage constant war to keep the plaguers from overrunning the towns, boroughs, and cities. Liam and Pierce are plumbers sent to the infected zones to keep the taps and sewers flowing. They preserve the dwindling resources of their homeland. Come along in the van and spend a typical day with Liam and Pierce. A day of digging holes, twisting pipe, soldering joints, measuring twice, cutting once, plunging the bog, battling the plaguers in gruesome fashion, and telling crude jokes. No matter how dangerous or dirty the task, it’s just another day on the job for the Plumbers! The Plumbers is a horror/dark comedy novella from the author of Transfer, the Honger series, Night Things, and the highly acclaimed old school horror collection, What Price Gory.
Genre: FICTION / HorrorThe Plumbers was released on 10-31 and has received fantatstic reviews. An audiobook version has cracked a few Amazon top 100 lists.
“You know where that got started? Friday the 13th?”
“Can’t say that I do,” Liam said.
“It was back in the witch trial days,” Pierce said. “The puritans would burn, like, twelve witches a night. Thirteen was unlucky, even back then. So the burnings always ended on twelve. Or an even number, if there was less than twelve to burn. But one night, they lost count. Yeah? It was on a Friday the 13th. They burned a thirteenth on the thirteenth. Evanora, she was called. Evanora the evil. She was a right nasty and powerful crone. Evanora was the head witch of a secret coven. They got into all sorts of satanic carryings-on. Orgies, sacrifices, poxes. Evanora, as she heated on the stake, called upon the power of the Archfiend himself. She cursed the entire village. After that, every Friday the 13th, someone from that night--- judge, constable, witness, passerby--- would suffer a terrible death. It’s continued with their ancestors, to this day.”
“You’re having me on, aren’t you, Pierce?” Liam said.
Pierce snorted and laughed. “Yeah, mate. I don’t even know if they had Fridays back then.”
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Italian
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Translated by Maria Teresa Levante
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Author review: Thorough and easy to work with. Great job! Highly recommended. |
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Translated by Mel Blumen
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Author review: I love working with Mel!!!! She's the best! |
