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Eidolon Avenue: where the secretly guilty go to die.
One building. Five floors. Five doors per floor. Twenty-five nightmares feeding the hunger lurking between the bricks and waiting beneath the boards.
The First Feast. A retired Chinese assassin in apartment 1A fleeing from a lifetime of bloodshed. A tattooed man in 1B haunted by his most dangerous regret. A frat boy serial killer in 1C facing his past and an elderly married couple stumbling and wounded from fifty years of failed murder/suicide pacts in 1D. And, finally, a young girl in 1E whose quiet thoughts unleash unspeakable horror.
All thrown into their own private hell as every cruel choice, every deadly mistake, every drop of spilled blood is remembered, resurrected and relived to feed the ancient evil that lives on Eidolon Avenue.
Proudly brought to you by Crystal Lake Publishing.
- Sales Rank: #642758 in eBooks
- Published on: 2016-01-15
- Released on: 2016-01-15
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"a great read...powerful and jarring" - Cemetery Dance "Lyrical, poetic, and devastating, Jonathan Winn's Eidolon Avenue is everything good horror should be. At times, I couldn't help feeling as if I was reading early Barker, and I can't think of a higher compliment than that. Pay attention folks, Winn does as his name suggests, and this is a killer collection of nightmares." - Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Turtle Boy, Kin, and Sour Candy "Jonathan Winn's writing is solid and assured, and EIDOLON AVENUE: THE FIRST FEAST is a big, sweeping, fantastical and exotic work that is as engrossing and thrilling as it is disturbing and horrifying. Winn is definitely an author to watch." - Greg F. Gifune, author THE BLEEDING SEASON
"Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast is my first reading experience with author Jonathan Winn, but it won't be my last. The structure of his five novellas is similar to the structure of Thomas Disch's 334, a collection of stories of the inhabitants of an apartment building in a future NYC, 334. Like Disch, the strength of Winn's writing is the excellent characterization - the unusual inhabitants of those five apartments are the stories. Put a magnet on a note with Jonathan Winn's name underlined on the fridge, then watch for his byline. Recommended." -- Gene O'Neill, THE CAL WILD CHRONICLES, THE HITCHHIKING EFFECT, AT THE LAZY K
"Jonathan Winn draws his narrative around you like a velvet noose. In a heartbeat, the warm embrace of his lyrical prose gives way to deadly tension, and you're left gasping for breath." - Doug Murano, co-editor of the Shadows Over Main Street series and Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories.
Jonathan Winn's Eidolon Avenue is a suffocating walk with a black hood above your face, you can only smell the fear trapped in rotten flesh, listen to the blood's poetry and trample pulsating shreds of humanity. Even if you're in the darkness, the pages of this book will become your new eyes. Highly Recommended. - Alessandro Manzetti, Bram Stoker Award Nominee, Author of Eden Underground.
About the Author
In addition to Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast, Jonathan Winn (Member, HWA) is a screenwriter and author of the full-length novels Martuk ...the Holy (A Highlight of the Year, 2012 Papyrus Independent Fiction Awards), Martuk ... the Holy: Proseuche (Top Twenty Horror Novels of 2014, Preditors & Editors Readers Poll), Martuk ... the Holy: Shayateen (2016) and The Martuk Series (The Wounded King, The Elder, Red and Gold), an ongoing collection of short fiction inspired by Martuk...
His work can also be found in Horror 201: The Silver Scream, Writers on Writing, Vol. 2, and Crystal Lake's Tales from the Lake, Vol. 2, with his award-winning short story Forever Dark.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Outstanding extreme horror
By Shane .D Keene
I think it's kind of apropos that my first fiction review of April is Jonathan Winn's latest release from Crystal Lake Publishing. While it's not a poetry collection, it does begin with a poem. The prologue in it's entirety reads:
"There is a place on Eidolon
that stands five stories tall.
Beyond locked doors,
dreams dreamt no more,
the tenants await their fall.
And on this day
on “Eye-da-lon,”
which waits five stories tall,
vindication sweet
feeds the hunger replete
as the walls inside whisper
Let’s eat."
That prologue serves two purposes, one of them being that it gives me a good lead in to this review, and the other being that it gives you a good idea of the nightmare you're about to experience when you enter the ramshackle building that awaits you on EIDOLON AVENUE.
Like so many authors I write about on this blog, Jonathan Winn is new to me. But I've heard good things about him from friends and colleagues both, so I was happy to dig into these five viciously dark novellas connected by the hallways of this decrepit building where the damned and the guilty go to perish.
"It’s said all of Shanghai wept when she died.
It’s said over three hundred thousand marched in a funeral procession four miles long that blustery March day in 1935. It’s also said that somewhere in the sobbing throng several women committed suicide. Their silent screen Goddess, Ruan Lingyu, ending her life with a fistful of sleeping pills at the too-young age of twenty-four spawning a grief only death could calm."
Thus begins the first chapter of the first tale where we meet Lucky, the sole occupant of Apartment 1A. Except she's not really the sole occupant. Instead, she is surrounded by the spirits of all the people she's brought death upon in her long life as an assassin. This opening passage shows us very early on that Jonathan Winn has a very unique, very eloquent voice. And he uses that to draw you in and hook you right out the gate.
Winn has a very nonlinear style that takes a bit of effort to follow, particularly in the first story, but his plots are fascinating, well thought out, and terrifying, as in the fast paced and darkly disturbing Apartment 1B, where a young man is forced to face his sins in a most brutal and sometimes gut-wrenching fasion.
I could go on and on synopsizing these stories but the publishers have done a good enough job with that already. So I'm just going to tell you what I think really makes these novellas work and what makes me think Jonathan Winn is a brilliant young author. There are two things that really stand out for me. One is that Winn's characters are fantastic, so incredibly well developed for such short works, and, love em or hate em, they make you feel something, and they make you interested in their fates. The other thing, and this one is huge for me, is that his endings are f***ing perfect. Some of the hardest hitting, wickedly horrific finales I've ever read. Because of that, the stories stay with you long after you've read the last word.
As I've already said, Jonathan Winn is a new discovery for me, but one whose work I'm completely enamored with and I can't wait to see what he's got in store for us next. Remembering that the apartment building on Eidolon Avenue is five stories tall, there's the potential for a f***load of gruesome horror coming out of that building and I'm anxious to see what's up the next flight of stairs. And the one after that, and... If you haven't read Jonathan Winn yet, you want to, I promise.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Good Reading
By LAS Reviewer
You never really know what your neighbors might do when no one else is around.
The main character in “Apartment 1A – Lucky” was an old woman nicknamed Lucky who has carried a terrible secret for decades. It took me a while to get into this story because of how often the narrator jumped from her dark memories of the past to the quiet life she was leading in the present. These time periods were often so jumbled up in her mind that I wasn’t sure what was going on or how I should interpret certain scenes. I wanted to understand them much better than I did, but they were often so blended together that I couldn’t tell where the past ended and the present began. With that being said, her eerily calm descriptions of the things she’d seen and done made me shudder. They were a chilling introduction to the horrors hidden inside all of these apartments.
“Apt. 1B – Bullet” was about a drug addict who kept discovering strange things happening to his skin. Sometimes he’d find a brand new tattoo when his drugs wore off and he woke up. At other times one of his existing tattoos would grow larger or develop details that it had never had before. The fast pace worked well with the subject matter of this plot, especially during the last few scenes when there was a lot of information to take in. I also liked how much attention the author paid to small details as he described what the main character was experiencing.
What scared me the most about “Apt. 1C – Click” was how coldly Colton described the women he had picked up. It was like he was talking about buying a new lamp instead of getting to know a fellow human being. Sometimes the most frightening thing of all is someone who is this detached from life. I was fascinated by how vividly this part of his personality was shared with the audience. It was exactly what the storyline needed in order to be as creepy as possible.
Is there such a thing as loving someone too much? In “Apt. 1D – Anniversary,” Marta and Benji have been happily married for many years and never want to be separated. Their response to the possibility of one of them dying and leaving the other one behind was as disturbing as it was fascinating. There were a few problems with the logic of it all that I would have liked to see more attention paid to, but it was still intriguing to see how Benji and Marta planned to solved this problem.
There were parts of Umbra’s relationship with her grandmother in “Apt. 1E – Umbra” that never made sense to me. As a child Umbra was sent to live with her grandmother after a tragedy. Based on certain things the grandmother eventually mentioned, though, it seemed odd that the grandmother would have ever agreed to take the girl in. While I was definitely spooked by the main plot, I spent much more time questioning this part of the tale than I would have liked to. It would have been helpful to have a longer explanation of why the main character ended up living with her grandmother as that decision was so important to all of the scenes that came after it.
I’d recommend Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast to anyone who likes their horror gory and visceral.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
In Your Face Horror!
By pvlimbaugh
Have you ever driven around the city, just to browse through different neighborhoods? Sometimes you glance at these old buildings and have to wonder, who lives there, what do they do? Are their lives like mine, or is there something else hidden behind the façade?
Jonathan Winn has given us a glimpse into one such building, set on Eidolon Avenue, we are introduced to the residents of the first floor. Each reliving a past that is better forgotten. With explicit detail, we are brought into their lives, to get a taste of living on Eidolon Avenue.
Let’s start with the old lady in 1A, you know the type. Lost in memories of regrets, alone in her golden years waiting to die. But, Death never comes easy for those who await it, oh no, Death feeds off your need for release. Wanting you to relive every moment of those torturous regrets that can never be undone.
As we enter 1B we find a man who’s been running from his past. Using violence to subdue his fear of what he’s done, who he is. Aah, but one cannot run forever, eventually the past has a way of slithering into our present making us face the reality of our lives. Like a mirror, the old building on Eidolon Avenue reflects the sins of your past.
“Colton f#*@ing Carryage,” who does he think he is! Once part of the crème de la crème, he now resides in 1C, a dingy flat with stained walls and lost tomorrows. Colton’s soul reflects the decay of the building, seeped so deep in rot there is no redeeming quality to be had. With just a click, any girl can be had, until that is, they’ve had enough.
Oh Marta, Marta, what have you done? Fifty years married to the same man, they have vowed to live and die together. But, somewhere down the line things have gone askance. The move to Eidolon is to be their last. Celebrating their last anniversary dinner with a dinner guest, Marta relates their time together. Time has a way of diminishing facts, but as you know it doesn’t change them. The walls of 1D have heard enough, it’s time for truths to be told.
The last residents of the first floor are little Umbra and her Gran, they occupy 1E. I believe over time old buildings pick up pieces of those dwelling behind their doors. Little essences that eventually grow as one to make up the personality of such buildings, a life of their own, so to speak. Little Umbra is a lonely girl, sent to live with her grandma after the untimely deaths of her parents. It is here, in this run-down apartment that she finds a kindred spirit in the heart of the building. Both with dark secrets to share.
The book cover is beautifully done by Ben Baldwin; it so aptly captures the stories within. Don’t let the “Mature Content” label throw you off, this is just plain old explicit in your face horror at its best. Yeah, maybe you might want to think twice before sitting down to dinner while reading this book. Some may get a little squeamish while ripping the meat from their rib bones with their teeth while reading of flesh being shredded in strips from a man’s body.
I have to say, I treated this book like a fine meal, it is not to be rushed, but enjoyed slowly so you can linger a bit between each course and allow it to be fully digested. These are stories that won’t be soon forgotten. I highly recommend this book.
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