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Will Castleton
Will Castleton
Series · 11 books · 2011-2020
By
David Bain
,
C. Dennis Moore
Books in series
#0.1
Island Ghosts
2011
"Island Ghosts" is a 3,000-word short story originally published in the now out-of-print hard-boiled DIME detective anthology (Futures Mysterious Press). It serves as an introduction to David Bain's Will Castleton stories, which include the full-length novel DEATH SIGHT and THE CASTLETON FILES story collection. Watch for two new Will Castleton novels coming soon: PURGATORY BLUES and RETURN TO ANGEL HILL (w/ C. Dennis Moore). In "Island Ghosts", "slightly psychic" U.S. Marshal Will Castleton's tropical vacation is no escape from his past. The reporter who cashed in on the tragedy resulting in Will's psychic abilities is hot on his trail as Will races time through a hurricane to save a woman's life.
#0.2
The Bridge
2011
In this adventure, Will Castleton, the slightly psychic detective who has appeared in other adventures such as NIGHTEYES and ISLAND GHOSTS, flies to a remote region of Oregon to help a rancher find a missing foster child. But the case soon takes a supernatural turn and Will may be heading back to Chicago with more than he bargained for...
#0.3
Samantha
2011
Paranormal detective Will Castleton, who has appeared in other adventures such as ISLAND GHOSTS and THE BRIDGE, gets a phone call in the middle of the night which appears to be about his girlfriend - who happens to by lying in a catatonic state in the hospital. But within an hour Will is thrust into an investigation involving vengeful spirits and a decades-old murder.
#0.4
Nighteyes
2011
Originally written for the VAMPIRE HUNTERS anthology, in "Nighteyes", slightly psychic paranormal detective Will Castleton wakes in the middle of the night with the feeling that he's being watched... Within hours he's racing to the suburbs of Chicago to save a young girl from the supernatural forces sapping her life away - and to a personal revelation which will change his life forever.
#0.5
Homeward Devils
2014
In this short novel, slightly psychic detective Will Castleton and his girlfriend Samantha are visiting Will's hometown of Green River, Michigan. But going home can bring you face to face with the ghosts of the past - as well as old enemies of a more physical nature. And then Will has a vision that someone will die before the night is over... It's not just angels who look homeward...
#1
Death Sight
2012
Hospitalized after drowning during a rescue attempt, newly graduated U.S. Marshal Will Castleton is besieged by visions of a hulking executioner torturing a bound man. A perilous race against time leaves Will broken, unsure if he even wants to join the marshals. Escaping to his Michigan hometown, Will finds his father dying, a young woman’s ghost desperate to communicate with him, and a biker kingpin out to make a statement by taking out local law enforcement’s golden boy.
#2
Phoenix Blood
2014
In thissuspense-filled thriller prequel to ISLAND GHOSTS: A WILL CASTLETON ADVENTURE, "slightly psychic" U.S. Marshal Will Castleton receives one of his most powerful visions of danger while delivering a federal witness - all he knows is a blood-covered man holds a kidnapped woman captive in an unspecified motel room. Within minutes Will is racing through the streets of Phoenix - can he fight and subdue the serial killer and rescue the woman, all while keeping his witness safe?
#3
Return to Angel Hill
2015
David Bain's psychic detective Will Castleton investigates C. Dennis Moore's haunted town of Angel Hill ! Paranormal investigator Will Castleton''s psychic friend Mazie calls on Will to accompany her when she's forced to return to her horror-infested hometown of Angel Hill, Missouri - a town she fled decades before, having been psychologically shattered by a harrowing vision in the woods. A death in the family pulls Mazie back to Angel Hill, but soon after stepping foot on her native soil, she and Will are caught up by spectral forces that twist a ghastly crime from the town's past into an all-too terrifying present. From David Bain's ghost-ridden town of Green River, Michigan to C. Dennis Moore's spectral city in darkest Missouri and back again, RETURN TO ANGEL HILL is a supernatural crime-suspense thrill ride you won't be able to put down! NOTE: RETURN TO ANGEL HILL is intended as a stand-alone novel from later in Will Castleton's career and is not a direct sequel to DEATH SIGHT.
#4
Purgatory Blues
2020
THE SEQUEL TO DEATH SIGHT.
A serial killer, a biker gang, a demon - Will must fight them all in a new full-length novel!
The harrowing, sometimes paralyzing visions of rats besieging him with each new serial killing in Green River might bring disgraced former U.S. Marshal Will Castleton’s psychic secret into the open. Meanwhile, local smalltime crime kingpin Crag Cahill is cooking up not only meth but deadly plans to expand with the help of the vicious Deathshead biker gang . He’s also scheming to take Will out for putting his sons behind bars. Plus Will is having demonic dreams of the hulking otherworldly hit man called The Executioner - who calls to taunt him on his real-world cell immediately after every dream. None of this is to mention Wil’s worried his girlfriend, Candice, might be cheating on him again...
The suggested Will Castleton series reading order:
DEATH SIGHT BLOOD & DONUTS (short story) PURGATORY BLUES WILL CASTLETON:
Darker Shades of Paradise
1\. PHOENIX BLOOD 2\. ISLAND GHOSTS 3\. COLD TIDE THE CASTLETON FILES RETURN TO ANGEL HILL THE HOUSE IN CYRUS HOLLER More Will Castleton stories and novels are forthcoming. Will also appears very briefly at the end of GRAY LAKE: A NOVEL OF CRIME AND SUPERNATURAL HORROR, a non-series stand-alone novel. It would fit in between BLOOD & DONUTS and PURGATORY BLUES. David Bain is the author of the Will Castleton paranormal investigator series, the Riders of the Weird West series, the Green River crime and horror series and many more novels and story collections (several co-written with C. Dennis Moore). An award-winning journalist, Bain is also a speaker and writing teacher, having taught writing to literally thousands of students over more than 25 years.
Cold Tide
2020
"Slightly psychic" U.S. Marshal Will Castleton has women, "Phoenix Blood" and "Island Ghosts" on his mind during the most frantic Florida "vacation" of his life when his boss calls and asks him to help hunt down a violent drug dealer from his past. Soon Will is chasing glitz and ghosts across gritty beaches and the humid Miami night! Will Castleton also appears in: DEATH SIGHT CHASING FATE (Forthcoming) PURGATORY BLUES THE BLOOD TIDE (Forthcoming) RETURN TO ANGEL HILL (w. C. Dennis Moore) The House in Cyrus Holler THE CASTLETON FILES and briefly in GRAY LAKE: A Novel of Crime and Supernatural Horror All books available in audio, ebook & print. All books free via Kindle Unlimited. David Bain is the author of the Will Castleton paranormal investigator series, the Riders of the Weird West series, the Green River crime and horror series, and many more novels (several co-written with C. Dennis Moore). An award-winning journalist, Bain is also a speaker and writing teacher, having taught writing to literally thousands of students over more than 25 years.
Authors
David Bain
Author · 15 books
C. Dennis Moore
Author · 19 books
#5
#11
The House in Cyrus Holler
2014
Psychic detective and ghost hunter Will Castleton (DEATH SIGHT, THE CASTLETON FILES) faces hulking monsters and interdimensional demons in a haunted holler in the Kentucky backwoods in this action-packed, over-the-top novella. NOTE: "The House in Cyrus Holler" also appears in PIERCING THE DARKNESS, a charity anthology from Necro Press benefiting The Children's Literacy Initiative and featuring authors such as Joe R. Lansdale, Jack Ketchum, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Keene, Kealan Patrick Burke, Jeff Strand, Jonathan Maberry, Ronald Malfi and many more!