Requiem

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Ava must fight an entity locked in on taking out the crew of the Eden, a moon-sized cemetery in space, as it brings back the souls of the dead buried aboard. One such soul is Ava's lost love, Roland. The spirits of the interred on the Eden haunt those aboard, including a visiting musician is tasked with writing a new song for the dead. Her Requiem calls a cosmic entity that illuminates their darkest fears and secrets. One by one, they're driven mad. Ava fights her grief and must rise up before they're lost and the entity reaches Earth. AUTHOR: John Palisano is the author of 'Dust of the Dead', 'Ghost Heart', 'Nerves', and 'Night of 1,000 Beasts'. His novellas include 'Placerita', 'Glass House' and 'Starlight Drive: Four Halloween Tales'. His first short fiction collection 'All that Withers' celebrates over a decade of short story highlights.

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"Palisano invites us into the vista of infinite space, teetering on oblivion. While technology welcomes us, something within us always grinds for awakening, and by delving into death, we will find it. A technological allegory for our time."

-- L. E. Daniels, Bram Stoker Award Nominee and author of Serpent's Wake: A Tale for the Bitten

"Smart, trippy, fast-paced and packed with dread, John Palisano's Requiem is a superb horror/sci-fi hybrid that will rattle your synapses and jangle your nerves."

-- Lisa Morton, six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award

"Imagine a huge cemetery floating in space and you have Requiem, an intensely creepy horror story that also asks the big questions: Are we wrong about the nature of reality What does it mean to be human Warning: Be prepared to feel like someone is walking on your grave."

-- Alma Katsu, author of The Fervor and The Hunger

"Possessing a firm grasp of tradition but with his vision clearly focused on the future, John Palisano is exactly the type of writer horror needs right now: bold, brave, imaginative and unflinching."

-- Bentley Little, Bram Stoker Award Winner

Palisano takes the 'haunted house in space' trope and twists it into something completely fresh and totally unhinged. Requiem takes the most terrifyingly hallucinogenic moments of Event Horizon and combines them deftly, and powerfully, with the most human and heartfelt themes of Contact to create a new vision of extraterrestrial visitation, formulating a new take on one of the all-time great taglines: In space, no one can hear you scream but you.

-- Philip Fracassi, author of THE THIRD RULE OF TIME TRAVEL and BOYS IN THE VALLEY

Author Bio

John Palisano is the author of Dust of the Dead, Ghost Heart, Nerves, and Night of 1,000 Beasts. His novellas include Placerita, Glass House and Starlight Drive: Four Halloween Tales. His first short fiction collection All that Withers celebrates over a decade of short story highlights.

Palisano won the Bram Stoker Award in short fiction for Happy Joes Rest Stop and Colorados Yog Soggoth award. His short stories have appeared in Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance, PS Publishing, Independent Legions, Space & Time, Dim Shores, Kelp Journal, Monstrous Books, DarkFuse, Crystal Lake, Terror Tales, Lovecraft eZine, Horror Library, Bizarro Pulp, Written Backwards, Dark Continents, Big Time Books, McFarland Press, Darkscribe, Dark House, Vincere Press and many more.

Non-fiction pieces have appeared in Blumhouse Online, Fangoria, and Dark Discoveries magazines and hes been quoted in Vanity Fair, The Writer, and the Los Angeles Times. Hes a recent past President of the Horror Writers Association.