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Sinkhole: A Horror Story Kindle Edition

by April A. Taylor (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Could you learn to get along with a complete stranger - or even your worst enemy - to save your life?

Ranked the #1 Most Popular Spooky Fiction Book on Goodreads.
Named one of the Scariest Books of 2019 by Grit Daily.
#1 Amazon Bestseller in U.S. Horror & LGBT Horror.

"Not for the faint of heart...Shift[s] the perspective of what a horror novel really has the potential to be. Sinkhole is an intelligent and terrifying triumph in the world of horror fiction." - Readers' Favorite

A sinkhole swallows a girl in Michigan. Fire shoots into the sky in Pennsylvania. Deer attacks leave people hospitalized in West Virginia. And this is all just the beginning of a catastrophic series of global events that will make you question everything you think you know about the planet, nature, and humanity.

From an award-winning, Amazon #1 best-selling author comes this harrowing tale of a world gone mad. Can anyone survive when Mother Nature unleashes her bad side?

Featured on 'Horror Continues to Thrive with the Scariest Books of 2019' - Grit Daily
Featured on 'Celebrate Halloween with These Macabre and Progressive Horror Books' - Medium.com
Featured on '7 New Horror Books That Will Actually Scare You' - BuzzFeed Community

"Sinkhole is another fine look at the natural world gone mad...a worthy addition to the emerging field of eco-horror." - Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger and The Deep

"A very fast-paced, short and punchy adventure horror novel. [It] has an outstanding change of direction halfway through...You will easily read all 200+ pages without drawing much of a breath or pause." - Horror DNA

"Sinkhole is your apocalyptic summer read." - Fangoria

"Sinkhole should be part of every horror fan's TBR pile." - Medium.com

"A fast-paced apocalyptic nightmare." - Grit Daily

Praise for the Author's Previous Books:

"Takes [the] standard genre template and turns it upside-down...the crazy whirlwind that ensues is enough to make even the biggest horror fan a bit dizzy...unique...with a literary approach that combines modern and mid-twentieth century techniques." - Inquisitr, The Best Horror Books of 2018

"Taylor weaves a haunting tale of a man who can't be sure if the desolate cabin he's staying in is full of ghosts or if his mind is playing tricks on him." - Popsugar, The 13 Most Chilling Horror Books of 2018

"I thought this would be a simple ghost story like Paranormal Activity. It wasn't. Filled with so much grief and craziness that I might need therapy." - BoredPanda, 7 Books That Scared Me Half to Death

"Unique... the author depicts the grieving process amazingly well. The story is claustrophobic... and what an ending. All of the flashbacks and delusions suddenly make sense... [it's a] sucker punch." - HorrorTalk.com

"A spectacular read...absolutely gripping. I couldn't force myself to put it down. Taylor did an excellent and meticulous job creating this story, forming imagery...invoking real emotion on the part of the reader." - The Horror Report

"A breath of fresh air...instilling such a deep, feral fear of the unknown that Shirley Jackson would be proud. Taylor doesn't pull any punches, and she refuses to play it safe, something that the horror genre could use a lot more of." -Justin Hamelin, Rondo Hatton Award-Winning Horror Journalist and Author

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Featured On:

'Horror Continues to Thrive with the Scariest Books of 2019' - Grit Daily
'Celebrate Halloween with These Macabre and Progressive Horror Books' - Medium.com
'7 New Horror Books That Will Actually Scare You' - BuzzFeed Community
Ranked #1 Most Popular Book in Spooky Horror and Ladies of Horror Fiction - Goodreads

"April A. Taylor's novella SINKHOLE is another fine look at the natural world gone mad--mad, as in angry at us, the failed custodians. A worthy addition to the emerging field of eco-horror." - Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger and The Deep

"Not for the faint of heart...the pace never lets up. Taylor builds both suspense and atmosphere well, with vivid descriptions and heated dialogue that hold tension until just the right moment. Shift[s] the perspective of what a horror novel really has the potential to be. Sinkhole is an intelligent and terrifying triumph in the world of horror fiction." - Readers' Favorite

"A very fast-paced, short and punchy adventure horror novel...[it] has an outstanding change of direction halfway through and hurtles toward a controlled but satisfying finish. You will easily read [it] without drawing much of a breath or pause." - Horror DNA

"Sinkhole should be part of every horror fan's TBR pile. Taylor masterfully weaves a lightning fast tale that's ostensibly about an apocalyptic situation but has oh so much more going on." - Medium.com

"A fast-paced apocalyptic nightmare." - Grit Daily

"This was an engaging and fast paced story...Taylor's prose reminded me of Daphne du Maurier's "The Birds" with its oppressive atmosphere and the feeling of dread." - StudioHNH

From the Back Cover

"Not for the faint of heart...Shift[s] the perspective of what a horror novel really has the potential to be. Sinkhole is an intelligent and terrifying triumph in the world of horror fiction." - Readers' Favorite

Could you learn to get along with a complete stranger - or even your worst enemy - to save your life?

A sinkhole swallows a girl in Michigan. Fire shoots into the sky in Pennsylvania. Deer attacks leave people hospitalized in West Virginia. And this is all just the beginning of a catastrophic series of global events that will make you question everything you think you know about the planet, nature, and humanity.

From an award-winning, Amazon #1 best-selling author comes this harrowing tale of a world gone mad. Can anyone survive when Mother Nature unleashes her bad side?

About the Author

April A. Taylor is an award-winning, multi-genre author and dark art photographer. Her debut novel, The Haunting of Cabin Green, was featured on:

-Popsugar's '13 Most Chilling Horror Books of 2018.'
-Inquisitr's 'Best Horror Books of 2018.'
-Ranker's '2018's Scariest Horror Books.'
-BoredPanda's '7 Books That Scared Me Half to Death.'
-BLGM's 'Best Gothic Horror Books.'

Sinkhole: A Horror Story and Missing in Michigan received 5-Star ratings from Readers' Favorite. Corvo Hollows was named a 5-Star Must Read Book by Reedsy.

Sinkhole: A Horror Story was featured on:

-Grit Daily's 'Horror Continues to Thrive with the Scariest Books of 2019.'
-Medium.com's 'Celebrate Halloween with These Macabre and Progressive Horror Books.'
-BuzzFeed Community's '7 New Horror Books That Will Actually Scare You.'

The Haunting of Cabin Green was the #1 Amazon best seller in the U.S. New Horror Releases category for three straight weeks. It went on to become a #1 Best-Seller in Gothic, Ghosts, U.S. Horror, and LGBT Horror. Additionally, it was the Top Vote-Getter in the Horror/Suspense category of The Kindle Book Review's 2018 Reader's Choice Awards.

Many of April's books take their inspiration from real-life events. Local history is woven throughout the Alexa Bentley Paranormal Mysteries Series, and all of her novels contain at least one or two elements from the author's life.

In her psychological thriller book, Corvo Hollows, April delved even deeper into her own real-life events through a fictionalized account of a terrifying encounter. The main character in Corvo Hollows also battles fibromyalgia, as does April.

Her Fine Art and Dark Art photographs have been published and exhibited around the world by a diverse list of media sources such as Fangoria, Scream: The Horror Magazine, and the short horror film Cathartic.

April is a proud member of the Horror Writer's Association. She lives in Michigan with the love of her life and their two cats. If her life was a cartoon, she'd be Lisa Simpson.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07YK6BC63
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Midnight Grasshopper Books (October 8, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 8, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1638 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 219 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #706,854 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #263 in LGBTQ+ Horror eBooks
- #1,350 in U.S. Horror Fiction
- #1,840 in Domestic Thrillers (Kindle Store)

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April A. Taylor is an award-winning, multi-genre author and dark art photographer. Her debut novel, The Haunting of Cabin Green, was featured on:

-Popsugar's '13 Most Chilling Horror Books of 2018.'

-Inquisitr's 'Best Horror Books of 2018.'

-Ranker's '2018's Scariest Horror Books.'

-BoredPanda's '7 Books That Scared Me Half to Death.'

-BLGM's 'Best Gothic Horror Books.'

Sinkhole: A Horror Story and Missing in Michigan received 5-Star ratings from Readers' Favorite. Corvo Hollows was named a 5-Star Must Read Book by Reedsy.

Sinkhole: A Horror Story was featured on:

-Grit Daily's 'Horror Continues to Thrive with the Scariest Books of 2019.'

-Medium.com's 'Celebrate Halloween with These Macabre and Progressive Horror Books.'

-BuzzFeed Community's '7 New Horror Books That Will Actually Scare You.'

The Haunting of Cabin Green was the #1 Amazon best seller in the U.S. New Horror Releases category for three straight weeks. It went on to become a #1 Best-Seller in Gothic, Ghosts, U.S. Horror, and LGBT Horror. Additionally, it was the Top Vote-Getter in the Horror/Suspense category of The Kindle Book Review's 2018 Reader's Choice Awards.

Both books in her Midnight Myths and Fairy Tales series became a #1 Best Seller in Amazon's Canada store during March 2018.

Many of April's books take their inspiration from real-life events. Local history is woven throughout the Alexa Bentley Paranormal Mysteries Series, and all of her novels/novellas contain at least one or two elements from the author's life.

In her psychological thriller book, Corvo Hollows, April delved even deeper into her own real-life events through a fictionalized account of one of the freakiest encounters she's ever been involved in. The main character in Corvo Hollows also battles fibromyalgia, as does April.

Like many writers, she started putting pen to paper during early childhood. Her first project was a family newspaper entitled The Taylor Family Times. Since then, she's spent more than three decades honing her craft through a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction projects.

April's appropriately spooky black cat, Riley, is her toughest editor and critic (look for pictures of him in action - and sleeping on the job - on Instagram!).

Horror caught her attention at a young age, and she's enjoyed exploring the darkness hidden inside everyone’s psyche ever since. She's also intrigued by each person’s capacity for astounding levels of goodness in the face of overwhelming evil.

April's horror, paranormal mysteries, thrillers, and dark, reimagined myths and fairy tales tackle both these topics. The darker side of humanity is also on display inside her Fine Art and Dark Art photographs, which have been published and exhibited around the world by a diverse list of media sources such as Fangoria, Scream: The Horror Magazine, and the short horror film Cathartic.

April is a proud member of the Horror Writer's Association. She lives in Michigan with the love of her life and their two cats. If her life was a cartoon, she'd be Lisa Simpson.

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Johanna

Terrifying and Engaging Read

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2019

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This book is very fast paced. The plot is both character and action driven, making for a very engaging read. It is set in several places across America, each experiencing a supernatural event that changes the character's lives forever.

The characters are diverse in personalities and backgrounds; I feel most readers will find someone to relate to and root for in the hopes they can survive the terrifying events occurring all around them. I finished the book hating one, loving most, and admiring the redeeming and justifying arcs of all.

The book asks if you can get along with a stranger or your worst enemy in order to survive. The author challenges the reader to put themselves in these very situations, making this a classic survival horror novel.

I would like to think myself the hero brave enough to face these horrors of nature, but I found myself hoping to never have to make the decisions these people did. If the world chooses to end this way, I'm popping a cyanide pill and wishing you all the best.

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Good Storyline

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2020

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I gave the book 4 stars, because the storyline was good, fast paced and held my attention to the end. After reviewing the other customer comments on Amazon prior to my reading it, I was wary. But the need for edits/corrections were minimal, and they did not detract excessively from concentrating on the story. At first, I was distracted by the omission of developing the characters, and minimal descriptions. As I became involved with the action in the story, that distraction faded away. I think the author did a good job of presenting a fast paced story of people responding to climactic disasters without prior knowledge or preparations for their changing circumstances. As in sci-fi, we become involved in the most preposterous situations, and do not normally compare it to the realities that we know. Criticism of the extreme conditions is pointless. It is an odyssey to be experienced, far from our past realities. I think the wrap up in the final chapters was well done, also. I did not feel the author rushed through the finish, as many authors do to keep publication dates in view. Overall, I enjoyed it, but would have appreciated more characterization in the first chapters, as the characters were introduced to the reader. Because of the lack of characterization in the early chapters, I thought this story was geared for young adults, who have a developed taste for blood and gore. I think there could have been much less physical description at the VA hospital, and still made her points clear. Graphic gore is not my type of book, but I do enjoy believable sci-fi.

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Not horror

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2020

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I was expecting a scary horror story. This was more of an apocalyptic story. Descriptions in story good. Ok read

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2020

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I would not describe myself as a horror fan, however, I started this book during the time of ‘social distancing’. I was bored with TV and my usual hobbies. This book riveted my attention within the first chapter! And that continued throughout the book. Excellent, exciting though gruesome, a range of human character explored and-hopefully- a reminder of the connection and interdependence of all life on our planet!

Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2021

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I found this book really interesting and scary. The characters were interesting, some likable, some not. It’s like Nature gone wild. Once I started it was hard to put down.

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2022

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Story started out fairly good and went downhill from there. Totally unbelievable, running into the preposterous. Would not recommend spending money on this story.

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2019

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What an absolutely horrifying story. The world seems to be coming to a horrible end, and there is nowhere you can run and nowhere you can hide. If you survive, can you be redeemed? Can you ever sleep again knowing what can happen? With that being said, the awesome story teller has done it again.

*I received an arc of this book for exchange of an honest review.

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Valdemar Cavazos

Not what I expected.

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2020

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I did not enjoy this book, I am giving it 3 stars because I can see how someone else with a different perspective could very well enjoy this read.
The author has a point to make and has an a few pages in the back dedicated to that point. This book just felt like a more interesting take on the terrible film "The Happening" and ended nearly the exact same way.
The characters start off interesting but never seem to take on an actual life of their own and I couldn't bring myself to care about any of them.

Its not a bad novel by any means, it just wasn't my cup of tea.

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ValG

Good fast paced horror

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 25, 2021

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Starts with a bang & races along to the end. Thought the end was a bit sudden though otherwise very good

Rose

well, why ever not?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2020

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This is a darned good book getting only four stars instead of the five it truly deserves due to the proliferation of the word ‘said’ in all the wrong places. Still, I’ve read worse in that regard so four it is. Why ever not? Why couldn’t it be just that way? It’s a social commentary yet when you read the book you’d not notice that about it. In short, I liked it. A really good read, short and to the point. Some might say a typical post appocolyptic story and yet it’s not really the appocolypse but something that nature simply has to since nothing else will cull the human race. Well done.

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Mark Speed

Probably for a younger reading age

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 12, 2021

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I'd not describe this as really horrific in any way. It came across a bit like one of those 70s or 80s made-for-TV disaster movies. I think it's probably for a much younger audience, and I know that eco-disaster is to them what the fear of nuclear war was for my generation, so three stars rather than two.

Mrs. Margaret Brady

Good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 7, 2021

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I enjoyed this book.the characters were believable and the storyline gave you something to think about .worth reading on a lazy day .

Phoenvix

Mother Nature loses Her Rag

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 26, 2020

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Brilliant story, the chapters were short and punchy so it was easy to get into the "oh, just one more" trap. Loved the perspective of the natural world once it became clear what was happening. Sad for a few characters but gleeful at one in particular's end.

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