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Dark Within [Hardcover]

John Wooley (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)


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October 28, 2000
Readers and critics alike applauded John Wooley's first forays into the shadowy world of horror with co-writer Ron Wolfe Death's Door and Old Fears. Now, with his first solo novel, this horror master has written his most spine-tingling tale yet.

What if a high-tech stranger in a glittering metallic box showed up outside your door and offered you anything you wanted? Could you resist? Would you want to? And what if you found out too late that the fulfillment of your dreams came with a terrifying price--an inescapable one-way trip not only through the eternal torment of that box, but also through the dark recesses of your own soul?

That's the temptation confronting Jim and Deborah Douglas and their small-town Oklahoma friends when the dark stranger appears on their property. Before Jim and the others can fully understand what--or who--they're dealing with, they're trapped, one after the other, by a power that can probe their hidden secrets--their darkest fears and ugliest desires--and bring them to a screaming reality. It will take all the strength, all the courage--and all the faith--Jim can muster to save his friends and family. Because the only way to set himself and the others free is to confront the dark within. Within the box--and himself.


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"...traditional storytelling writ large, retaining the intimacy of a homespun yarn and leaping all barriers of the genre." -- Michael H. Price, author of Forgotten Horrors

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 229 pages
  • Publisher: Hawk Publishing Group (October 28, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1930709080
  • ISBN-13: 978-1930709089
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.9 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,312,181 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars who's afraid of the dark (within)?, April 1, 2001
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This is a wonderful first solo for John Wooley. The writing is so personable I felt as if I were part of the cast of characters as the story unfolded around me. The perfect balance of compassion and terror take the reader on a roller coaster ride through the sterile advancement of human technology without ever letting go of your hand. I found myself fearful of what would happen next yet engrossed enough to carry on to the end. I won't soon forget the people and events that took place in this book and I feel it's only a matter of time before it comes true... unless it already has...
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4.0 out of 5 stars Dark and creepy, February 1, 2004
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hrladyship (Las Cruces, NM United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dark Within (Hardcover)
John Wooley's voice and style are calm and quiet. No screaming. No blood. No bodies being ripped apart. In a rural setting, with average people, a horror comes visiting. A stranger in a coffin-like box that he promises never to leave, if he can only park in their yard, garden, or barn. Although Kard may be strange, he may not be entirely a stranger.

For $100 a week, Jim Douglas and his friends, living in a rural area near Claremore, Okla., agree to let Kard stay in corners of their properties. Inside the box, nothing is visible except Kard, in his jogging outfit, and blackness behind him, punctuated by small pinpoints of white light.

In spite of his promise to never leave the box, his presence begins to intrude into their lives. Suddenly his image appears on the children's computer monitor. Deborah Douglas is sure that she knows him from somewhere, sometime, and the possibility that she remembers him, seems to disturb Kard. Then, people begin disappearing. The reality of what's inside the box must be determined before the Douglases and their friends can rid themselves of Kard's presence. But the stranger is in control and they don't know how to fight him.

Readers who enjoy this and other of Wooley's horror novels might also enjoy Ash Wednesday and Soul Storm by Chet Williamson.

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5.0 out of 5 stars New Horrors for a New Century, August 27, 2001
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Great read! I found this to be an utterly fresh horror novel, a new approach for a new century. Wooley sets his tale along America's backroads, where danger spreads like the latest craze, unchecked by city suspicions. It's a brilliantly apt metaphor for the creeping change that takes us all unaware and corrupts our freedom. Wooley's unique voice lends his story a powerful sense of place. His vivid characters are a constant delight, drawn with unfailing wit and humanity. The conflicts they struggle with are as much within themselves as with the sinister Man in the Box, so I was always wondering what they would do next. As it speeds toward its devastating finale, this ultra-modern blend of new world tech and old world wisdom seems to ask a discomfiting question: Can we resist what we can't understand?
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