The Carousel Man

When the ride ends, the terror begins…

The nightmares and visions are getting worse for crime writer Jack Rainne. He can’t shake the childhood memory of a haunting carousel ride in a desolate Missouri cornfield. The psych ward docs convinced him long ago the frightening images were all in his head. Twenty-five years later, he’s not so sure. He spots the carousel and its grizzled operator a thousand miles away from the Missouri cornfield, captured in a photo taken the night a young family vanishes from a local carnival.

The problem? Jack is in the photo, too.

Did I mention dead people? Jack sees them. And the murders he pens in his novels resemble several unsolved killings in the area. His wife, Sam, begs him to get help—right before she vanishes. With a trail of evidence pointing his way, Jack is forced to go on the run. His only hope for answers is a return to the Missouri cornfield where it all began. There, he uncovers a shocking truth—and a long-forgotten promise he’s condemned to fulfill.

Stephen Paul Sayers is the top-10 Amazon bestselling author of The Caretakers horror trilogy: A Taker of Morrows, The Soul Dweller, and The Immortal Force. As a college professor and research scientist, Stephen yields to the left-brain world of data analysis and statistics by day but releases the demons in his slightly twisted right-brain by night. It gets confusing around dusk when neither side is in control. Jet-setting between New England and the Midwest-well, more like driving back and forth in an RV-he divides his time between Columbia, MO and Plymouth, MA thinking up scary stories and watching classic horror films with his ill-behaved dog, Ollie. Visit Steve at stephenpaulsayers.com or reach out on Facebook: facebook.com/stephenpaulsayers; Twitter: twitter.com/SayersAuthor; or Instagram: instagram.com/stephenpaulsayer