Welcome to day three of the Flame Tree Press Blog Tour for John Everson’s new novel The Devil’s Equinox! This darkly erotic horror story about arcane rituals and parental love was released on June 13, and I’m joining some fellow bloggers to spread the word about it. My review will go live at a later date, but for now, please check out the synopsis, author details, and tour schedule!

Austin secretly wishes his wife would drop dead. He even says so one boozy midnight at the bar to a sultry stranger with a mysterious tattoo. When his wife later introduces that stranger as Regina, their new neighbor, Austin hopes she will be a good influence on his wife. Instead, one night he comes home to find his wife dead. Soon he’s entranced with Regina, who introduces him to a strange world of bloodletting, rituals and magic. A world that puts everything he loves in peril. Can Austin save his daughter, and himself, before the planets align for the Devil’s Equinox?

John Everson is a staunch advocate for the culinary joys of the jalapeño and an unabashed fan of 1970s European horror cinema. He is also the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Covenant and its two sequels, Sacrifice and Redemption, as well as six other novels, including the erotic horror tour de force and Bram Stoker Award finalist NightWhere and the seductive backwoods tale of The Family Tree. Other novels include The Pumpkin Man, Siren, The 13th, and the spider-driven Violet Eyes.

Over the past 25 years, his short fiction has appeared in more than 75 magazines and anthologies and received a number of critical accolades, including frequent Honorable Mentions in the Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror anthology series. His story “Letting Go” was a Bram Stoker Award finalist in 2007 and “The Pumpkin Man” was included in the anthology All American Horror: The Best of the First Decade of the 21st Century. In addition to his own twisted worlds, he has also written stories in shared universes, including The Vampire Diaries and Jonathan Maberry’s V-Wars series, as well as for Kolchak: The Night Stalker and The Green Hornet.

AWARDS:
Covenant – HWA Bram Stoker Award for First Novel, 2005
Letting Go – Bram Stoker Award Finalist, Short Fiction, 2007
NightWhere – Bram Stoker Award Finalist, Novel, 2013