Dweller - Jeff Strand [104]
We should race, Toby thought. Make a game out of it.
Or maybe not. Maybe there were more games to come.
Toby could barely feel anything. Before he completely lost sensation in his arm, he twisted his body, flopping his arm over and putting his hand into Owen’s claw.
Owen’s claw tightened around his fingers. Toby closed his eyes and they began their next adventure together.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First of all, monster-sized thanks to Michael McBride, who was subjected to this thing chapter-by-chapter as it was written. Thanks are also due to my volunteer testreaders Tod Clark, Adrienne Jones, Rhonda Wilson, Joe Konrath, Jonathan Piccinini, and Elizabeth Snead White for their typo-hunting and feedback. And I need to fling additional thanks in the direction of Don D’Auria, Stephanie Rostan, Monika Verma, Norm Rubenstein, Joe Morey, Greg Lamberson, and my wife Janice.
There are about forty-eight tons’ worth of other people who deserve to be thanked (I weighed them) for countless reasons, but then I’d forget somebody, and then that person would scream “Why was ______ thanked and not me?” and then they’d start a smear campaign that would create a lot of hurt feelings and eventually result in the tragedy of six or seven lost lives. So I’m taking the “complete wimp” route and ending these acknowledgments here. Can’t be too safe.
CRITICS RAVE FOR JEFF STRAND AND PRESSURE!
“In a visceral narrative voice spiced with beguiling wit, Strand shows readers that humans are capable of far worse things than any supernatural monster.”
—Shroud Magazine
“You do not want to miss Pressure under any circumstances.”
—Dread Central
“[Pressure] is one of those psychological horror novels that will stick with you long after you read it…If you feel the need to read a book that will scare and horrify you at the same time, well, buy this book. It’s simply a horror masterpiece…It is a horror novel for the ages.”
—The Horror Review
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April 2010
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