num_pages: 263
description: If a demon and its servants ruled your ordinary town demanding an annual virgin sacrifice would you have the courage to stop them? And at what price? This question confronts Amos Ross Suzie Mitchell and Vickie Riordan high school seniors in the new horror novel All Souls Day. In an alternate reality of the 1980's twenty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis triggered World War III and left the United States a devastated wasteland the ancient demonic god Moloch whose worship was forbidden by the Old Testament exercises absolute control over the Philadelphia suburb of Chatham's Forge. The town is an oasis of prosperity that the nuclear war hardly touched but its comfort comes at a fearful cost: at the high school prom every year the prettiest and most popular senior girl is chosen by Moloch and his servant the evil Pastor Justin Bello to be spirited away to a former National Guard armory known as the Castle where she is imprisoned alone for five months only to be beheaded and eaten alive by the demon on All Souls Day the second of November the anniversary of the war. And this year 1985 it's Suzie's turn...
language: English
title: All Souls Day
publisher: Silver Leaf Books, LLC