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A Resurrection of Starlings: a horror novel Kindle Edition

by Gretchen Rix (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
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For your consideration: A horror novel set in the Piney Woods of East Texas near the town of Palestine where a train has mysteriously stalled.

It’s 1885. The snow has finally stopped and the train’s twelve passengers have just begun to realize they’re in deep trouble. There’s something out there and it’s calling up at them to be let in. The Buffalo Soldier on board might not be enough to save them, and the legendarily brutal mass murderer he guards is no one’s hero.

But it’s not a single hero that’s required. It’s all of them.

A Resurrection of Starlings.
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    231 pages
  2. Language
    English
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  4. Publication date
    December 14, 2021
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    3605 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09NN64X2S
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 14, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3605 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 231 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

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Gretchen Rix

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Genre writer Gretchen Rix was born in North Carolina many, many years ago, but got to Texas as soon as she could. She now resides in Lockhart, a small town near Austin that is the official BBQ capital of Texas. Her current wish list is for a Schlotzsky’s or Taco Cabana to set up shop in town.

At one time her favorite books were TARZAN OF THE APES and THE BLACK STALLION. By now, all the books by Terry Pratchett and Dick Francis have joined the list. Plus a lot more. She still loves STAR TREK.

She’s been writing since she was ten (inspired by Jo of LITTLE WOMEN), and has been publishing since 2010. Her books range from the sweet, romantic comedy of THE COWBOY'S BABY series to the humorous mystery series beginning with TALKING TO THE DEAD GUYS, and even to the action-adventure of THE SAFARI BRIDE, ARROYO, and THE GOODALL MUTINY.

She loves reading series books. She loves writing them too.

Although she has seldom written poetry, she does write short stories from time to time. She loves movies and television, has vowed she’ll never write a screenplay, and enjoys long walks through the neighborhood with the dog. The cat’s weren’t so easy to walk, so they stay inside at home.

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Patrick Kelly
5.0 out of 5 stars The Ain’t No Ordinary Train Ride
Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2022
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What just happened?

That’s what I kept asking myself as I read Gretchen Rix’s latest tale of the fantastic and horrible. Death and rebirth. Nightmarish recollections of concentration camps from prior centuries. Vicious zombie fights.

Reading this novel felt strangely familiar, as if the author had watched a nightmare of mine and took careful notes so she could recreate it on the page. Have you ever had a bad night’s sleep, where the same bad characters keep floating in and out of focus, trying desperately to harm you, succeeding, failing, exiting the frame one moment and coming back the next? That’s this novel. I felt twisted and turned and at the writer’s mercy.

And she ties it all together with a satisfying ending.

If horror is your thing, you really should read A Resurrection of Starlings.
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JenEllen
4.0 out of 5 stars Who or what is in control?
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2022
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This book has all the elements of things to keep you up at night. Repeated mistakes, days, events, the inability to leave, weather, remote area, the only nightmare of mine it did not have was the one about forgetting a locker combination. And the biggest question of all is who or what is in control? This was a quick read with light horror in a lot of ways yet heavy on the psychological aspects. It will leave you thinking. I did enjoy the alternate scenarios the author offered at the end of many chapters.
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Bill Oberst Jr.
5.0 out of 5 stars "A perfect bedtime read..short chapters peopled with the strange, the brutal and the oddly familiar"
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2022
Like Agatha Christie, Gretchen Rix in person (as those who've met her at conventions will attest) is the last soul you'd suspect to be a writer of death and mystery. And like Agatha Christie, Gretchen Rix on the page seems absolutely born to write about death and mystery.

You don't have to know the above to enjoy Ms. Rix's short historical horror novel “A Resurrection of Starlings.” I only mention it for an added layer of enjoyment.

Set onboard a mysteriously halted (and mysteriously abandoned) steam locomotive in the winter woods of circa 1885 Texas, it's the perfect bedtime read, a page-turner of pleasingly short chapters peopled with the strange, the brutal and the oddly familiar: a strong, flawed and distinctly unglamorous female hero, a malevolent child specter prone to tossing bloody snowballs, a horribly dismembered passenger gazing at their own corpse and, best of all, ethereal half-states of life and death, shifting between this world and the next in the drifting snows of silent woods and the hissing steam of a trapped train.

Put “A Resurrection of Starlings”on your nightstand. It's the kind of book horror and mystery fans should love to dog-ear. And when the book slips out of your hand each night you, heavy-lidded and fading, will hear, just faintly, the satisfying thud of a thing well done and all done...til tomorrow.

I'm so glad I encountered this author, a prolific sweet lady who writes of strange things in books that are just plain fun. Gretchen Rix' writing feels real, and (take it from someone who knows) it feels really, really weird. Agatha would approve. So do I.

You'll enjoy.
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