This is another of the series of books written by Jack Kilborn in the Konrath/Kilborn Collective. The first set has a separate review. I read these with my Kindle Unlimited membership.
Origin: 5 Stars: I read this as a separate book, but since I wanted to read The List and Haunted House, I got the three book version. I’m glad I did, because re-reading Origin makes me remember why I love horror so much!
Imagine in President Teddy Roosevelt’s time, as the Panama Canal is being dug, a strange box is found. Imagine that this box brings fear to those who found it, and that fear encourages President Roosevelt to bury the box, along with scientists who know this is a lifetime assignment, who carefully watch the box. One day they then figure out how to open it. Whoops!
Come to present day. Every president has been briefed on what is going on in this buried, hidden bunker. However, each president is afraid of the world finding out what was in the box. Each president has to get scientists to the bunker, so scientists with something in their pasts with which the president can blackmail them with are found. As the scientists go underground, they are sworn to secrecy, with the burden of treason hanging over their heads, each knowing it will be a lifetime assignment.
Now the box is opened. What happens next? This book is full of screaming horror, and a fear that perhaps there’s a bunker out there of which we are not fully aware. Read this alone or in the omnibus. Worth it.
The List: 5 Stars: This is another I have already read. Sometimes I hate it when I download a book I’ve already read, sometimes, I’m glad. This is a glad time.
Pretend you are a police detective called to a murder scene. The deceased has a tattoo on his heel that you recognize, because you have one exactly like it on your heel. After some research, you find another murder victim had a tattoo on his heel. All of the tattoos, while in the same place, have a different meaning.
Suddenly, you find your life is in danger, just as you are put on “vacation” by your chief (Lt. Daniels, whom some of you may remember – her name is mentioned but that is her full participation), you and your partner, also on vacation, decide to do more investigating into the tattoos.
You find others with the same tattoos. However, during your search, you are thwarted by men trying to kill you, which is puzzling, because you cannot imagine why! But as more people with tattoos are located, the reason becomes clear: a megalomaniac wants you dead.
As you run for your life still trying to understand what these tattoos mean, you come to a horrifying discovery, and then the fun begins. Are you afraid? You should be.
Haunted House - 5 stars
As Mr. Kilborn is wont to do, this has characters from other books returning. All but one of the survivors of the other books in this trio of books is here; the one that is not a survivor is from one of the Luther Kite books. If you haven’t read any of those, go get them. Survivors of Kite are just as damaged as the survivors in the other books in this triology.
If you were offered a million dollars to participate in a fear experiment for a weekend in a haunted house because you survived the previous two books, would you do it? The Haunted House is famous. It comes in second only to the house in Connecticut as the most well-known haunted house in the United States.
The reason? An experiment what happens during periods of intense fear. Some accept, some do not. The ones that do accept are terrified out of their minds, but there is no million dollar prize at the end of the weekend as offered. Instead, there are other ideas for the weekend, and none are pretty.
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