WELCOME TO BLACKSTONE

Designed by a madman, built with inmate labor and home to the nation’s worst criminals, Blackstone Penitentiary was considered the Alcatraz of the Midwest. Over a one-hundred-year history, it amassed the more odious distinction of being the most haunted location in America.

PAROLE WILL BE GRANTED

No longer in operation and left abandoned, it awaits renovation for inclusion to the National Register of Historic Places. Spearheading the ambitious restoration project is Anthony Creighton, a caretaker seeking to unlock the reformatory’s long-buried secrets. He enlists four strangers to help in that mission, individuals who possess extraordinary psychic abilities. Along with a skeptical scientist, the group embarks on the first full-scale paranormal investigation of the notorious prison. Their goal: to confirm the existence of life after death.

TO ANYONE WHO SURVIVES THE NIGHT

Six guests. Ten thousand ghosts. And all of them fighting to escape.

[NOTE: With the Crypt TV contest now over, I’m taking down the entire manuscript. If you’d like to read BLACKSTONE, it’s available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and iBooks for $3.99. Print copies are also on sale for $15.00.]

A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR

Hello Readers, Haters, and Passersby --

My name is Jared Sandman. I’ve published half a dozen genre novels over the past several years. Horror mostly, but also a murder mystery and a sci-fi thriller. Check out www.jaredsandman.com to learn all about them.

I don’t know much about Inkshares or how this whole enterprise operates; frankly, I joined because I heard about their current contest with Crypt TV and thought it was a cool idea. So I signed up on a whim and decided Blackstone would make a fun read-along for the upcoming Halloween season. After all, everyone loves a good ghost story for Halloween.

The contest runs for two months, from the beginning of September through the end of October. That’s roughly sixty days. And because Blackstone has thirty chapters, I shall post successive chapters every other day. That means Blackstone will wrap up on Halloween weekend, so the timing works out perfectly.

Plus, because the novel is already finished, you won’t be subjected to any of my rough draft nonsense. Everybody wins!

Make sure to tell your friends and followers about this project, so they can catch up and read along too. If you enjoy books like Richard Matheson’s Hell House, Stephen King’s The Shining, or Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, then Blackstone will be a treat.

Please click "FOLLOW" at the top of this profile page if you want to read along with the whole book. And follow my author profile as well (two separate things, I gather); if enough people seem interested, I could be persuaded to post my next new novel on Inkshares.

Anyone who follows me, I promise to follow you back . . . home.

At night.

In the dark.

And you won’t ever see me.

-j.s.