Burn the Negative

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In this incendiary mash-up of horror and suspense, a notorious slasher film is remade...and the curse that haunted it is reawakened. Arriving in L.A. to visit the set of a new streaming horror series, journalist Laura Warren witnesses a man jumping from a bridge, landing right behind her car. Here we go, she thinks. It's started. Because the series she's reporting on is a remake of a '90s horror flick. A cursed '90s horror flick, which she starred in as a child-and has been running from her whole life. In The Guesthouse, Laura played the little girl with the terrifying gift to tell people how the Needle Man would kill them. When eight of the cast and crew died in ways that eerily mirrored the movie's on-screen deaths, the film became a cult classic-and ruined her life. Leaving it behind, Laura changed her name and her accent, dyed her hair, and moved across the Atlantic. But some scripts don't want to stay buried. Now, as the body count rises again, Laura finds herself on the run with her aspiring actress sister and a jaded psychic, hoping to end the curse once and for all-and to stay out of the Needle Man's lethal reach.

Reviews

Burn the Negative is a creepy, twisty, compulsively readable haunted house of a book built from horror movies and our obsessive response to them. You'll root for Laura and fear the Needle Man. Be sure to make the popcorn and dim the lights.
Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts

"A relentless supernatural page-ripper that doubled as pure catnip for the horror connoisseur in me."
David Yoon, author ofCity of Orange

"Burn the Negative knocked me sideways. It is both fresh and familiara dark, satirical, and unflinching observation of the movie industry and childhood celebrity, with a monster that will make even your nightmares wake up screaming."
Rio Youers, author of No Second Chances

This book had me hooked from line one! Slasher Final Girl Haunted hotel Cursed movie within a movie within a book Is it possible to seamlessly fold everything a horror fan loves into one story Josh Winning not only says it is, but in Burn the Negative, he pulls it off flawlessly.
J.H. Markert, author of The Nightmare Man

Satisfyingly creepy! A fantastic supernatural thriller that harkens back to horror's glory days.
J.D. Barker, author of A Caller's Game

Smart, fast-paced, and devilishly clever.
Shaun Hamill, author of A Cosmology of Monsters

Prepare to be caught in the Needle Mans gripyou wont be able to tear yourself away.
Kat Ellis, author of Harrow Lake

Josh Winning has won my heart with this Hollywood horror-noir, which plays out like A Nightmare On Sunset Boulevard.
Clay McLeod Chapman, author of The Remaking

Burn the Negative treads the line deliciously between supernatural and psychological horror, and Winning's story whips along at breakneck pace towards a shocking payoff.
Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces

I was gripped and chilled by Burn the Negative. There was the impulse to binge just one more chapter before closing the covers, combined with layered characterization, sensitivity, and Winning's respect for and love of pop-culture and what it gives, and takes away.
Deirdre Sullivan, author of Perfectly Preventable Deaths

Smart, spooky and steeped in horror movie lore, Burn the Negative will have you turning the pages so fast youll leave scorch marks.
Matt Glasby, author of The Book of Horror

An all-consuming obsessiona perfect mash-up of Night Film and Harrow Lake.
Dawn Kurtagich, author of The Creeper Man

Author Bio

Josh Winning is the author of the critically acclaimed The Shadow Glass. He is a senior film writer at Radio Times, has written for Total Film for over a decade, and is the cohost of movie podcast Torn Stubs. During his years as a film journalist, he has been on set with Kermit the Frog (and Miss Piggy), devoured breakfast with zombies on The Walking Dead, and sat on the Iron Throne on the Dublin set of Game of Thrones. Josh lives in London with his cat Penny and dreams of one day convincing Sigourney Weaver to yell "Goddammit!" at him.