The Calling - Softcover

Paul M. Strickler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1427606552 ISBN 13: 9781427606556

Publisher: Black Castle Entertainment, LLC, 2006

Synopsis

The Sarasin family's move to northern Michigan is meant as a getaway from the stressful big-city life of suburban Detroit. Instead, they find themselves engaged in an epic struggle . . . with a demon, their new house's sinister past and with themselves. From a mysterious stranger who stalks them, to a hotel clerk who describes their house's former owner as "a doctor not of the living . . . but of the dying," from sounds of digging and voices under their house to an enormous "stone circle" used by Satan worship in the forest behind them, from the discovery of journals describing demon calling to a sheriff who may be "one of them," the Sarasins are plunged into a seemingly unstoppable descent as pawns in a game where the future of the world depends upon their ability to stop the creation of an immense "gate"--a portal between the world of the living and that of the revengeful dead. The Calling . . . where nightmares chronicle the past--and predict a horrifying future; where a Victorian mansion is thought to be haunted--and the truth is far worse; where a mysterious stranger is either a guardian angel--or the devil in disguise, and where a 600-year-old cult of demon worshippers isn t history--but just waiting for . . . The Calling.

About this title

About the Author

Paul M. Strickler was born in Ludington, Michigan. He graduated from Mason County Central High School in Scottville where he was awarded the Cox Award for Outstanding Student of Literature. Later, he attended Texas A&M University then transferred and graduated from Michigan State University with a BS degree in computer science and minors in English creative writing and political science. For four years, Paul worked as an intelligence analyst and programmer for the CIA in Langley, VA where he was awarded an Exceptional Performance Award--the Agency s highest honor--by the Agency s Director. After his work at the CIA, Paul moved back to Michigan and lived in Boyne City for the next 11 years. Currently, Paul works at a large aerospace company as their Director of Information Technology and lives with his wife and family on the western coast of Michigan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Black Castle Entertainment, LLC
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1427606552
• ISBN 13: 9781427606556
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 538