And Gordon's great-great-great-grandfather was Harmon Smith, a circuit-riding preacher who was killed by members of his own church and still, 200 years after his death, reappears regularly in town - so regularly, in fact, that the locals have gotten quite used to his presence (though he always takes one of them with him each time he comes through). His first wife (whom Nicholson has rather cleverly named Rebecca) died mysteriously five years ago, but her spirit still haunts the farm, leaving the scent of lilacs in her wake. Gordon's family has a long history in Solom. She found Gordon Smith, a theological scholar living on his ancestral farm in the small town of Solom, North Carolina (a town patterned after rural Todd, NC). After divorcing her husband Mark because of his drug addiction, Katy was looking for a more stable type of fellow to help raise her daughter through these trying years. Katy Logan and her tween daughter Jett Draper are trying to start over. One wonders if his fellow North Carolinians appreciate how he portrays their home region in his novels, but the number of readers who do is still growing, and I am one of them. This review covers his 2006 novel The Farm, one of his paperback originals, now out of print (and thus, by my own definition, 'forgotten') but readily available used. He also has a free ebook of tips for writers, called Write Good or Die. His latest novel is Drummer Boy, though he is probably still best known for his Bram Stoker Award–nominated debut, The Red Church (recently reprinted by his own Haunted Computer Books). He quickly became one of the genre's 'writers to watch.' Recently, he has embraced the viral marketing potential of electronic books and has begun to self-publish a selection of his high-quality horror fiction. The Guns of Sapinero by Peter Brandvold writing as.įor more of Friday's Forgotten Books, visit Pattinase.įor a handful of years, horror author Scott Nicholson released a paperback original each year through Pinnacle Books.The Twisted Thing by Mickey Spillane (included in.The Big Bang by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Coll.Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Sm.Gun Work: The Further Exploits of Hayden Tilden by.Feed by Seanan McGuire writing as Mira Grant (zomb.Alibi by Teri Woods (unabridged audio book read by.Joyride by Jack Ketchum (includes bonus novella We.Friday's Forgotten Book: The Farm by Scott Nichols.

The Farm by Scott Nicholson