Margins
In Black book cover
In Black
2015
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4.23
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206
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Chase thought he’d been hired to do some painting, but when the paint dried, it created a black void through which was a chamber. Suffering abounds, but Chase manages to escape with his life…and the strange black paint. Needles is a town that time seems to have forgotten. Run down, desperate—the perfect place for Paul to pimp out his girlfriend and close enough to Laughlin for him to gamble away her earnings. When he discovers the eerie black paint, he creates a depraved brothel in a hidden void and hightails it to Vegas to make some real dough. Chase spends his fugitive life in search for his missing wife and the black paint. After requesting the help of someone he is loath to work with, he finds himself driving through the desert to Sin City for a showdown like no other. He was warned about the black paint, but didn’t listen. Now he has to find and destroy it before more innocent lives succumb to its unfathomable darkness.

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Author

Robert Essig
Robert Essig
Author · 19 books
Robert Essig is the author of over a dozen books and well over 100 short stories. His latest books are Follow the Maggot Wagon (Infected Voices) and Tweaker Creatures (The Evil Cookie). He is the editor of several small Press anthologies, most recently Chew On This! (Blood Bound Books), which was nominated for a Splatterpunk Award. Robert is on all major social media platforms. He lives with his family in east Tennessee.
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