The Dead List by Stephen Williams

Be careful what you have wished for because it is about to come true

Michael Morgan’s sixteenth year was going to be a memorable time for them all.

The problems of adolescence should have been enough of a battle for Michael but he is about to confront a new and vicious terror.
The only child of a professional couple who are locked in an adulterous marriage, he begins a relationship with a divorced neighbour
to escape from horrific visions that have taken control of his mind and thrive on his fear... a fear bred by guilt. He is afraid now that
his mind has somehow breathed life into the shadows and that the horror of his dreams is real after all.

The month of November is fast approaching and the parish priest has asked his congregation for written lists of deceased relatives
and friends - the November List of the Dead - that they might pray for the release of souls from Purgatory. Michael has no one to
add to the List and is consumed by guilt because he will not be able to take part in this annual religious ceremony. His innocence is
seized upon by an evil Purgatorial soul that would never have been included in any November Dead List, one that would never have
been released from torment on Judgement Day.

Returning to the world of the living on Michael's thread of innocent guilt, Jacob Robertson takes on a terrible form and embarks upon
a wave of brutal assaults and murders. A city is plunged into terror from the horror of this unknown serial killer, a teenager believes he
is going insane and all men fall under the net of suspicion. Michael sees his November List of the Dead growing at an alarming rate.
Unknown to him, Jacob decided that as a reward for allowing him back into this world, Michael will have the names he needs for the
List... and then proposes to take the boy as his own reward for services rendered.

What happens when Michael realises that his wishes are coming true? How can one boy defeat a paranormal horror? And will he be
in time to save the rest of his friends? The language of The Dead List is brutal and coarse. Adolescence is a violent time that rapes the
innocence of childhood and fear reigns supreme. The novel depicts this loss of innocence as the child enters the living purgatory of
adulthood because Michael’s fear is not simply a fear of death and what lies beyond the shadow, it is the fear of maturity, the fear of
life itself.


Check out the Look Inside feature on this page to become a part of Michael's harrowing world. Parental guidance is advised, this book
contains adult material.

About The Author

Stephen Williams is the author of:

Novels ... Servant Of Desire, Death Speaks In Whispers, The Dead List, A Bad Place To Die, Beast On The Landing
Short Story Collections ... Games Men Play, Avoiding Lebanoth
Non-Fiction ... Tarot A Book Of Secrets
Poetry ... Walk With Strangers, Going For The Throat, Laced With Cobwebs, Rags Of Old Conversations, Doves Eat Hawks Collected Poems 2013

All titles are available as Amazon Kindle books.

Stephen Williams has written numerous articles, essays and short stories for newspapers and magazines across the world. In reviewing
and awarding the prize for “Computerised Judas”, contained in Avoiding Lebanoth, Mr Stephen Fry commented that Williams’s work is
both formally and stylistically imaginative.

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