He’s adorable

One of the vanguards of indie horror publishing, Necro Publications, has released its newest nightmare Monkey Farm.  How do you tell your best friend you may just be the one who murdered them, especially when they won’t even admit they’re dead?  That’s one of the questions author S.A. Check poses with the release of this fast-paced, sci-fi horror mystery with enough surprise twists to keep readers guessing until the very end.  Isn’t the cover adorable? Check out the synopsis:

Ask any kid in the town of Rumors Mill and they’ll tell you that playing anywhere near the Monkey Farm was completely off limits. The dark branches of the woods surrounding the abandoned lab held whispers of secret government experiments and creatures that lurked the property at night on both two legs and four.  So, it was no real surprise when young Effin and a group of friends decided to spend a fateful summer day in those woods, and one of them didn’t make it out alive. That day cost Effin his family, his friends, and more than a bit of his sanity. When he left town to go live with his aunt, he never looked back.  

Ten years and a sketchbook full of nightmares later, Effin’s past finally catches up with him.  A little girl’s gone missing in those same cursed woods. He knows returning home means facing his own tortured past, but someone, or something, is calling him back. With the help of the only two people who still believe in him, the ghost of his long-dead best friend, and the girl he left behind, Effin begins a search for a missing child, but ends up not only unlocking the secrets of the Farm’s checkered past but his own lost childhood. 

Though it seems highly unlikely, some small part of me hopes that monkeys are, if not the true antagonists, then at least an antagonistic force in this novel. In either case this sounds like a promising genre blend from a publisher that consistently releases fun content from some of my favorite authors. Fair warning, Necro tend to publish titles which lean towards extreme horror and as such are not for the faint of heart, but if you’re a sicko like me that won’t be a problem.

Monkey Farm is available now!