He's transported readers back to 1983 with Jedi Summer and unveiled the haunted mind of a word-obsessed man in Snarl, but in his latest novel Thrift Store Puzzles, author John Boden is taking readers to an elder care facility in the small town of Cordry, where a former famous horror author has unknowingly unleashed a monster from the dark corners of his imagination.
Readers can put the pieces of John Boden's next enthralling story together when Thrift Store Puzzles is released on May 13th from Dead Sky Publishing, and Daily Dead is thrilled and chilled to exclusively reveal the cover art for the upcoming horror novel!
You can check out the cover and synopsis for Thrift Store Puzzles below, and to learn more about Boden's latest book and other exciting releases, visit Dead Sky Publishing's official website!
Thrift Store Puzzles Synopsis: Ken Allenwood is a man being devoured, from the inside out, one memory at a time. A once famed horror writer who now spends his days in an elder care facility waiting for the breath that will be his last and hoping he’ll retain at least some memories from his long and unusual life. Has the unraveling fabric of his mind tangled with the threads of his fictive endeavors?
Elijah is a boy who adores all things spooky, a boy who spends the bulk of his time alone.
Then a change comes to the little town on Cordry. The killings are vicious and devoid of pattern, almost. When Elijah tells Ken about them, the old man grows fearful and decides to use his unreliable windows of focus to help his friends figure out what is going on and who or what is behind the murders.
A monster has come to roost in their midst. A creature that craves blood and possibly much more, inheritance of a sort, acknowledgment. A monster from the very dark recesses of Allenwood’s mind, a horror very old and very bitter…
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John Boden was mostly raised in the mountains of Pennsylvania, in the small town of Orbisonia. He is a bakery manager by trade and finds a regular sleep schedule overrated. He currently resides with his beautiful wife and two sons, in a house sweetly haunted by the ghost of a beautician named, Darlene. He likes collecting lots of things and won’t usually shut up about it. He believes Elvis is the King, Bigfoot is real and Midian is where the monsters live. His writing is fairly well received and has been called unique of style.
Dead Sky Publishing | Pub Date: May 13, 2025
Pages 140 | ISBN 978-1639512058 | $15.99
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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