The Devil's Children

Harry Edwards and Adam Jones are childhood friends. Two weird kids whose friendship blossomed over the love of horror movies, and things that go bump in the night. The pair spent countless hours searching the area’s woodlands and abandoned buildings, in what appeared to be an imaginary game of ‘demon hunting’. Now in their mid-20’s, both men have long moved away from their small New English hometown. After a letter and a drunken late-night phone call, they decide to head back to the old town to play video games, explore their childhood haunts, and drink copious amounts of beer. When arriving in their hometown, they find reports of strange and inexplicable happenings. Folks seeing dead folks, a wayward historian sealing off newly discovered tunnels, the sightings of wild animals that don’t seem to be able to be killed. Soon, the men find themselves drawn back into the darkness that inhabited their childhood, a mystery that seems to have origins with the inception of the town itself, and with the disappearance of Harry’s teenage girlfriend thirteen years before. They also discover that the idiosyncratic games that they played as children, really weren’t games at all, and that the ties they share with the old town run deeper than just coming of age and geography. On Halloween night, they set out to put an end to the dark forces that pull at their bones like unrelenting children, and to uncover the unspeakable secrets of Wycombe, Massachusetts.

Benjamin Blake was born in the July of 1985. He grew up in the small town of Eltham, New Zealand. He is the author of the poetry and prose collections, A Prayer for Late October, Reciting Shakespeare with the Dead, and Southpaw Nights (also published by James Ward Kirk Fiction). The Devil’s Children is his first novel. Also by Benjamin Blake A Prayer for Late October (Poetry) Southpaw Nights (Poetry & Prose) Reciting Shakespeare with the Dead (Poetry & Prose)