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Vince Churchill
VINCE CHURCHILL has three published novels: The Dead Shall Inherit The Earth, The Blackest Heart, and The Butcher Bride. The Dead Shall Inherit the Earth was featured in Xbox Magazine's "ZOMBIES! Collector's Edition" as one "The 37 Greatest Zombie Triumphs. Vince has a Sunday column in the Jacksonville Journal Courier newspaper, and his Splatter Pattern column appears regularly for The Hacker’s Source magazine. His short fiction has appeared in anthologies such as The Undead, The Undead II, The Horror Library - Volume I, and The Beast Within. He was also a list contributor in the recent Book of Lists: Horror. Vince’s latest novella, Condemned, anchors the Butcher Shop Quartet II anthology published by Cutting Block Press. Vince’s next book is the end-of-the-world thriller Good Night, My Sweet. He invites you to visit his website: www.vincechurchill.com. |
| From Midnight Walk's reviews: |
| "Vince Churchill's Late Check-In, in spite of its time-honoured subject (a haunted hotel accommodating a lonely traveller on a stormy night) manages to create a suspenseful and scary atmosphere." |
| Bookgeeks |
| ""Late Check-In" by Vince Churchill checks us into one of the most frightening noir hotels ever..." |
| Creature Feature Tomb of Horror |
| "...the story has an impressive Tales of the Darkside twist ending that's both creepy and satisfying..." |
| Dark Scribe Magazine |
| "Late Check-In is another fine addition to the many classic ghost stories we all love." |
| Famous Monsters of Filmland |
| "I also enjoyed Late Check-in by Vince Churchill about a traveler who is tormented after checking in to a strange motel..." |
| Fatally Yours |
| "Whether in an exotic locale or firmly grounded in native soil, the writers featured in the compilation expertly convey the emotions of fear, revelation, and outright horror. In "Late Check-In" by Vince Churchill, for example, there is the horror of the weird hotel: "Room number 9 was darker than the hallway. There were no shadows or any traces of gloom. It was nothing less than hell-pit black. When the door was half open the darkness inside began to force its way into the hall. Shapeless at first, the black entity molded itself into a hand. And then it made another. And another. And another. A mob of hands, some as small as a child's and some as large as an ape's, reached and clutched, stretching from beneath shadows that might have been tar. All reaching, reaching out to me."." |
| Hellnotes |
| "...has some genuinely frightening imagery -- reminiscent of scenes from Simon Clark's VAMPYRRHIC -- that is quite effective." |
| Horror Drive-In |