Amazon Category:  Horror Publisher: 1stbooks Library ISBN-10:  0759681228 Type: Fiction Pages: 495 Copyright: Jan 1 2001 Take a Connecticut SLAYride with 666 of history's most notorious villains...(Recommended for a Best First Novel STOKER Award!) THE FEARS OF A CLOWN... Henry Voulkos is Pokerface the Clown. The kind that's crying on the inside. He doesn't want to drink, or beat his daughter, or remember the war. All he wants to do is put on a good show. But MALICE, The Archdemon he's indebted to, wants him to put on HER show. And on a storming night of betrayal and madness, the curtain rises... THE ACTOR'S NIGHTMARE... Colin Shepard thought that his struggle for stardom in Los Angeles was Hell. But now that he's come home to Meriden, Connecticut, he's found out what Hell really is. It's becoming the chief suspect in the brutal murders of an entire family...HIS family, who've been slaughtered before his eyes. It's pursuing a possessed killer through a raging blizzard. It's the discovery that his dead family WON'T STAY DEAD... THE CIRCUS IS COMING... And its Ringmaster is MALICE. Immortal and insane, she's one of Hell's most feared tormentors. After centuries of plotting, she's assembled an army of history's most notorious killers. She's found the perfect pawn among the living to be their living gateway to our world. And as Armaggeddon begins on a freezing night in Meriden, the darkness turns CLOWNWHITE... Excerpt THE FEARS OF A CLOWN... Henry Voulkos is Pokerface the Clown. The kind that's crying on the inside. He doesn't want to drink, or beat his daughter, or remember the war. All he wants to do is put on a good show. But MALICE, The Archdemon he's indebted to, wants him to put on HER show. And on a storming night of betrayal and madness, the curtain rises... THE ACTOR'S NIGHTMARE... Colin Shepard thought that his struggle for stardom in Los Angeles was Hell. But now that he's come home to Meriden, Connecticut, he's found out what Hell really is. It's becoming the chief suspect in the brutal murders of an entire family...HIS family, who've been slaughtered before his eyes. It's pursuing a possessed killer through a raging blizzard. It's the discovery that his dead family WON'T STAY DEAD... THE CIRCUS IS COMING... And its Ringmaster is MALICE. Immortal and insane, she's one of Hell's most feared tormentors. After centuries of plotting, she's assembled an army of history's most notorious killers. She's found the perfect pawn among the living to be their living gateway to our world. And as Armaggeddon begins on a freezing night in Meriden, the darkness turns CLOWNWHITE...

WORTH LOSING SOME SLEEP...
"Worth losing some sleep over...is it frightening? Yeah. Is it violent? Yeah. Is there sex? YEAH...but most of all it's a fun read." --JOHN PAUL ALLEN, Author of GIFTED TRUST

WHAT A FIND!
"Will make your spine tingle and your hair stand on end...be prepared to have nightmares." --MIKE JONES, PALMERS GREEN READER (UK)

LEFT ME IN A POOL OF SWEAT..., "Left me in a pool of sweat...I highly recommend all of K.K.'s work." --DANIELLE NAIBERT, www.artofhorror.com.