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Burn the Negative

(2023)
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A chilling slasher from a razor-sharp new horror voice, perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix and the Scream franchise


‘A
creepy, twisty, compulsively readable haunted house of a book built from horror movies and our obsessive response to them. Be sure to make the popcorn and dim the lights’ Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts

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Journalist Laura Warren arrives in L.A. to report on a remake of a '90s horror flick.

A cursed one, which she happened to star in as a child.

When
eight of the cast and crew died in ways that eerily mirrored the movie's on-screen deaths, a traumatised Laura left and changed her entire identity.

But just as she reaches the set,
a man falls from a building right in front of her. It's happening again.

This time, Laura is determined to end the curse once and for all.

If it doesn't come for her first . . .



Genre: Horror

Praise for this book

"Satisfyingly creepy! A fantastic supernatural thriller that harkens back to horror's glory days." - J D Barker

"Josh Winning has won my heart with this Hollywood horror-noir, which plays out like A Nightmare On Sunset Boulevard." - Clay McLeod Chapman

"Prepare to be caught in the Needle Man's grip - you won't be able to tear yourself away." - Kat Ellis

"Smart, fast-paced, and devilishly clever." - Shaun Hamill

"An all-consuming obsession - a perfect mash-up of Night Film and Harrow Lake." - Dawn Kurtagich

"This book had me hooked from line one! Slasher? Final Girl? Haunted hotel? Cursed movie within a movie within a book? Is it possible to seamlessly fold everything a horror fan loves into one story? Josh Winning not only says it is, but in Burn the Negative, he pulls it off flawlessly." - J H Markert

"I was gripped and chilled by Burn the Negative. There was the impulse to binge just one more chapter before closing the covers, combined with layered characterization, sensitivity, and Winning's respect for and love of pop-culture and what it gives, and takes away." - Deirdre Sullivan

"Burn the Negative is a creepy, twisty, compulsively readable haunted house of a book built from horror movies and our obsessive response to them. You'll root for Laura and fear the Needle Man. Be sure to make the popcorn and dim the lights." - Paul Tremblay

"Burn the Negative treads the line deliciously between supernatural and psychological horror, and Winning's story whips along at breakneck pace towards a shocking payoff." - Ally Wilkes

"A relentless supernatural page-ripper that doubled as pure catnip for the horror connoisseur in me." - David Yoon

"Burn the Negative knocked me sideways. It is both fresh and familiar - a dark, satirical, and unflinching observation of the movie industry and childhood celebrity, with a monster that will make even your nightmares wake up screaming." - Rio Youers


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