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PRAISE FOR.... BLACK & ORANGE
"With BLACK & ORANGE, Benjamin Kane Ethridge raises a dark new voice that will send a shiver down your spine. Weird, creepy and unnaturally entertaining!"
Jonathan Maberry
multiple Bram Stoker Award winning author of
THE WOLFMAN and
THE DRAGON FACTORY
 

“You are invited to a Halloween party (heh, heh, heh). But unlike any "celebration" you've attended before. Oh, yeah. For example, the kids here are doing more than wearing ghastly masks and trick-or-tricking-- nasty, frightening things. And to get to the party location, you have to jump on a "roller-coaster," but no modern conveyance with built-in safety assured, oh no. This is an old-fashioned ride on rickety, creaking, rotten wooden scaffolding, sharp turns making your head almost snap off your neck, the straight up climbs making your nose hemorrhage, hurtling straight down the terrifying speed slamming you forward unconscious, the trip guaranteed to loosen your sphincter and empty your bowels big time, before you reach the truly horrifying destination. BLACK & ORANGE is a scary, compelling, must read. Get it now...or we're sending the ghastly kids after you. And I mean it!”

Gene O'Neill
author of TASTE OF TENDERLOIN,
DOC GOOD'S TRAVELING SHOW, AND DEATHFLASH

“BLACK & ORANGE is the most fun I've had with a novel in a long time. It's freaky fun - perverse and elegant, and filled to bursting with wild energy. There are worlds within worlds percolating beneath the surface of this lyrical, well told tale and Mr. Ethridge gets the balance right, dazzling with an emotionally resonant work that's high on wonder and punctuated with enough icky moments to make even the most hardened of horror veterans go ewwww. Highly recommended!”

Michael Louis Calvillo
Bram Stoker Finalist author
of I WILL RISE,
AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT,
and BLOOD & GRISTLE



"Black & Orange may be the most original treatment of Halloween I've ever read, a masterful pumpkin patch of style and structure that heralds the arrival of a major new talent in Benjamin Kane Ethridge. The pages drip with a unique energy that transports the reader to a weird, wild, and terrible world that's as giddy and frightening as a hayride on October 31st."

 Gregory Lamberson
author of JOHNNY GRUESOME and THE FRENZY WAY



"A remarkable novel, dark and imaginative and unique. It keeps the pages turning!" 

 Nate Kenyon
author of THE BONE FACTORY

 

"BLACK AND ORANGE begins like a train and just keeps rolling. Benjamin Kane Ethridge has crafted a dark, yet colorful fantasy, with vivid characters and some of the punchiest dialogue I have read in a long time. Trust me, this book belongs on your must-read list."

    Rio Youers
author of MAMA FISH and
OLD MAN SCRATCH

 

"...effortlessly takes the reader through multiple twists and leaves you guessing until the very end. I highly recommend Black and Orange to fantasy and horror fans alike"

 Colleen Wanglund
MonsterLibrarian.com

 

"...doesn’t contain any vampires, zombies or serial killers. What it does have is a richly imagined, wide-ranging mythology, packed into a narrative that can’t be adequately summarized in a single sentence."

 Adam Groves
Fright.com

 

"...Black & Orange is a dynamic and unforgettable novel."
 Anthony J. Rapino
Dark Scribe Magazine