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JG Faherty
Author JG Faherty enjoys photography, classic B-movies, urban exploring, pumpkin beer, and good wine. When he was a child, his favorite playground was a nineteenth century cemetery, which people believe explains quite a bit.

JG attributes a lot of his interest in the macabre from his growing up in the haunted Hudson Valley of New York. Here, stories of haunted houses, UFOs, and creatures lurking in the woods run rampant.

He has been a fan of science fiction and horror since he was first able to change the channel. One of his earliest memories is seeing “Night of the Living Dead” and “Planet of the Apes” at the drive-in as a double feature with his parents.

Addicted to things like “Star Trek”, “Godzilla”, and classic sci-fi movies like “Them!”, being introduced to horror on the big screen converted him right away. As a result, science fiction took a backseat to the thrills offered up by vampires, zombies, werewolves, ghosts, and monsters.

Throughout his elementary, grade school, and high school years, he read everything scary that he could get a hold of. Authors like Shelley, Poe, Wellman, Stoker, King, Wilson, Straub, and Koontz.

In college, he made his first real attempt to write some horror of his own, but that experiment went horribly and he went fifteen years before trying to write fiction again.

In the interim, he tried all kinds of jobs, including things like R&D scientist, lab tech, lab manager, zookeeper, photographer, marketing specialist, teacher, and resume writer.

Faherty’s debut novel, called “Ghosts of Coronado Bay”, was released in the year 2011. He writes YA and adult horror/fantasy/sci-fi, and his stories range from dark, quiet suspense to over-the-top gruesomeness.

“Cemetery Club” is the first stand alone novel and was released in the year 2012. Twenty years ago, four friends woke up the ancient evil, and it is only the Cemetery Club that can stop it before the entire town winds up dead. Or worse.

Rocky point is a tiny town with a rather violent history. Illegal medical experiments, mass graves, and brutal murders that date back hundreds of years. Of course, when Todd, Cory, Marisol, and John form the Cemetery Club, they don’t know any of this. They have discovered the best place to party after school lets out. It is an old crypt. However, then things begin to go bad. People start getting killed and the Cemetery Club realizes the cause. Some malevolent creatures that transform people into zombies. Nobody believes them, they descend down into the infested tunnels underneath the town and manage to somehow stop the cannibalistic deaths.

The horror is starting again in the present tense. The Cemetery Club has to reunite to beat this menace for good. The one problem is that, now, they are unable to remember just how they did it the first time around.

It is a race against the clock to figure out the true source of evil that infests Rocky Point, as the Cemetery Club goes into the cryptic maze, in order to face off against their demons in this final showdown.

“The Burning Time” is the second stand alone novel and was released in the year 2013. There is an ancient evil that has come to Hastings Mills, and there is just one guy able to stop it.

Where The Stranger goes, so does evil. Wild dogs are in the fields, roaming. The people turn on one another in a murderous fury. Innocent women jump off bridges. Swimmers go missing, the victims of some deadly beast haunting their waters. The worst hasn’t even come yet. The Stranger plans on opening a gateway to the nether realms and releasing the Elder Gods to bring Chaos on Earth.

There is just one guy that knows the truth. One country mage whose family fought The Stranger in the past. Will he be able to defeat this ageless foe before Hastings Mills has been reduced to nothing more than a smoking ruin and the townsfolk are unwilling blood sacrifices to the Old Ones? With just the help of a young lady and her teen son, he is going to have to utilize all his arcane knowledge in order to thwart his enemy and prevent the final apocalypse from happening.

The Burning Time has come in Hastings Mills.

“Carnival of Fear” is the third stand alone novel and was released in the year 2014. The Halloween Carnival seemed to be the perfect way to spend one Friday night, however a group of teens finds they are trapped inside a haunted Mansion, they are going to learn the horrible truth about this carnival as well as the demons who run it.

Now they have to fight their way through the maze of torturous attractions where werewolves, vampires, aliens, and all kinds of other monsters have come to life, eager for human blood. While the body count continues to increase, friendships are lost and formed, and some unlikely heroes start to emerge.

The final showdown is in Hell, where the ultimate fight between evil and good is going to determine each of their fates.

“Castle by the Sea” is the fourth stand alone novel and was released in the year 2014. Jason and Erika were having the best time at the Halloween carnival. Until their swan boat in the Tunnel of Love capsizes amid some heavy waves and maniacal and blaring laughter. They come to, and they are no longer at a carnival in Ohio, but are standing at the edge of an ocean in a raging storm. Atop a high and barren hill, out in the distance, looms this enormous castle.

Instead of answers, Erika and Jason just find more impossibilities inside the stone walls. All of the lavish rooms are lit up by fireplaces and torches. The mysterious host claims to not have one of those newfangled telephone inventions. The furniture and decorations are a century out of date.

Outside, in the dense mist and the raging storm, lurk some odd and threatening figures. Inside, there is another couple that seeks refuge that think it all has to be a nightmare. Maybe it is. Or maybe it is something much worse.