The Last Omen
Steven Nedelton
Author Bio
Steven Nedelton (aka Ned Stevens) is an Author of Suspense, Paranormal, Mystery and Horror novels. His thrillers are The Last Omen/Possessed, Coma Sins/The Madness of Ben Bluman, The Raven Affair, A Suitcase Mystery/Part 1 and Nemesis/Part 2, Dangerous Trade and Fear! His novel Fear!, historic genre, earned a five years recognition from the Midwest Book Review Journal. The novels are available on Amazon.com, in paperback, Kindle and audio book formats. The Last Omen is his latest Suspense/Horror thriller in Kindle, paperback and Audio. Author’s website is at www.snedelton.com
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THE LAST OMEN, Occult, AMAZON REVIEW
5.0 of 5 stars December 14, 2014 http://ow.ly/CdXyv
Dii, TOP 500 REVIEWER
This review is from: THE LAST OMEN: POSSESSED (Kindle Edition)
With his signature style for detail and that shadowy, suspenseful atmosphere, Steven Nedelton has dipped his pen into the world of the occult. With The Last Omen: Possessed, Mr. Nedelton also displays his ability to meld two seemingly separate plots into one, while neatly tying them together with a unique flourish as they create cross-hatches upon each other.
After inheriting his uncle’s fortune, author C. Adams begins to have nightmares and hear the sounds of an intruder in his newly inherited home. With no evidence, perhaps his writer’s imagination is getting carried away? The death of a neighbor is no hallucination and the investigating detective claims Adams’ uncle was part of a dark occult group. Meanwhile he finds an intense attraction to a beautifully mysterious and successful woman, who his disbelief, says she is possessed by a demon, who is becoming crueler as it rears its evil head. Little did Adams know that the day his uncle died, his life would never be the same.
A former foreign soldier, a trained specialist comes to America at the behest of his estranged wife, but something is off, nothing is as she said it was, there were no great job opportunities and no great wealth. Even the success of his in-laws has been exaggerated, as Johan comes to learn. When approached by a powerful and terrifying group to become their paid assassin, the money is too good to pass up, the work is easy with his marksman’s skills and just maybe he is helping rid the world of more evil.
These two men cross paths when Johan walks in on a pagan ritual that Adams is “part of.” From this point on, these two men will enter into a world they never knew existed. The question is will they escape alive? Who can they trust to believe and help them? The answers may surprise you…
Get ready to feel the chills traverse your spine, to hear noises and things that go bump in the night after entering the world Mr. Nedelton has created. Not for the faint of heart, expect to lose a few hours of reality as Steven Nedelton becomes your guide in the dark and sinister. You may want to sleep with the lights on for a night or two.
Book excerpt
According to Howard, Tom built the home himself with the help of his sister’s husband crew, her husband being a part owner of a local New York construction company.
The stench in the kitchen is so overpowering, it seems poisonous to Aengus.
They provide him with a piece of gauze impregnated with a chemical that insulates him from the smells of the apparently unusual death. He holds the gauze over his nose and mouth. The cops wear nose and mouth masks except for the detective he is with. He seems to be too tough to worry about petty annoyances like odors. Or, he is just simply used to death in all of its ugliness.
The victim, Tom Ryan, is dressed in his around-the-house clothing, in an old pair of shabby blue jeans and red checkered shirt, and sitting at the kitchen dining table, apparently having his dinner.
Only his head is not facing the plate with the meat and vegetables. His head is turned in some odd manner all the way to his right, toward the kitchen door they just came through and is now observing them as if curious who has come to disturb his repast.
Except there is coldness in that gaze, in that pair of eyes turned upward instead of ahead—in that frozen look of indescribable pain etched into his pale blue eyes. And his mouth is wide open into a huge ‘O’ warped, probably by pain, into an ellipse or some similar geometric figure in that last shriek of agony.
Even his facial skin, including all his age defining furrows, is stretched out to accommodate his yawning mouth—that final horror grin known as rictus. A special for the tomorrow’s Gazette ‘Horror, Top of The Day’ Photo Event.
“His neck was broken,” the detective explains in a lowered voice, as if out of respect for dead Tom Ryan.
Aengus tries to get closer to the dead man but the officer stops him.
“Don’t! The blood is all around; they disemboweled him. We need the footprints.
“Look around—the walls. You see the pentagrams? Everything’s in red. Does that mean anything to you?”
As he glances at the kitchen walls, and all around him, including the victim, he notices that Tom’s hands are tied with a rope to his body and that the body is secured with belts to the back of the chair. Even his legs are bound with ropes to the chair. Tom Ryan could not move neither left nor right. The old man was completely immobilized. And they could do to him anything they wanted to.
‘So, they gutted him alive,’ runs through his mind.
The pentagrams on the walls are in red, but they don’t look like drawn in Tom’s blood.
“That’s paint, we’ve already checked that,” the detective explains as if reading his thoughts.
“Who found him?” Aengus asks.
“His son and daughter-in-law. They called us—four hours ago. They’re both in shock, had to be taken to Bronx Lebanon.
The policeman is quiet for a moment, as if thinking. Then asks an unexpected question:
“What do you know about Black Magic? You writers do write about the occult.”
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