Ashes

By H.R. Howland

An unimaginable evil has burned its way across the globe in search of a kindred spirit, leaving in its wake the ashes of its victims. Now, in a small Pennsylvania town with a dark history of its own, it's found what it has been looking for.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425203530
• ISBN13: 9780425203538
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Rural Savagery

There's nothing I enjoy more than a novel about darkness descending on a small town --especially when that town is in my native Pennsylvania. H. R. Howland's ASHES is a chilling, fast-paced horror thriller will big leagure horrors set in a small rural town. Good characters, a nicely woven plot, and enough shocks to please any fan of the genre.

Spider is a great metaphore for evil!

This first book is a good read, starting in Honduras, with horrific violence, the transition to small town USA is creative. Some may feel that a spider as vector of evil is a stretch, but as a symbol of malevolence, laying in wait, lurking, waiting, with it's web spun for just the right human subject to walk past, a spider is perfect. The bigger and creepier the better. The ground work for a possession is well and carefully laid. We have a past history of a cruel, abusive sociopath that died 200 years ago, with his last living relative a Desert Storm veteran, who has been ill used by his supervisor at his job. Of course, this unlucky, nightmare ridden man is the subject that walks near that vector of evil. What ensues, is utterly magnificent chaos. As in any good story, the bad guy is sympathetic at times and at times I cheered for the destruction of those that blithely ruin other's lives. But as the story goes on, more of Roger is lost to the other that rides him. All in all, a strong first book, and I will not hesitate to read his next offering! at the least a 4 star effort, buy it, read it, you'll like it!