by Michael Pang
Genre: YA Paranormal Fantasy
Release Date: March 1st 2016
SolaFide Publishing
Summary from Goodreads:
A near tragic incident at the hands of his psychotic mother left Declan Peters alone and with so many questions.
Years later, Declan is determined to find a way to be closer to his mother and takes a job at the institution where she's being held. That fateful decision will be the impetus for a chain of events so terrifying that Declan will question his own grasp on reality.
What he finds will be more horrifying than anything he's ever experienced and more dangerous than anything he's yet known. In a place, rife with demonic possession and sadistic beings, will Declan finally be able to find the answers he's longed for before its too late or will he succumb to the evil forces that inhabit the institution and all who live there?
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Excerpt:
“I want to go to my room now,” said
Kyle who turned abruptly toward his room.
Declan and Joe were startled from
Kyle’s response. “I think Kyle is tired, Andy; we’re going to go get him
settled in,” Declan quickly responded. Andy wasn’t Declan’s favorite in terms
of volunteer coordinators, however, he was offended when people were rude to
the pastor. Since Declan was a kid he’d known Andy, and he could testify to how
the volunteers had helped the patients recover. Whether it was truly the grace
of God or not, Declan could not deny the patients’ progress.
“Well, I’ll be seeing you later,
dude. Hope you get up to snuff soon,” said Andy, as he turned and said a quick
prayer for the room he was about to leave. Declan and Joe were walking into
Kyle’s room to get him settled as Andy placed his hand on Kyle’s door. His next
stop was Kyle’s room, and he started saying a silent prayer for Kyle.
Just then, Kyle violently turned
toward the pastor and yelled, “Leave me alone!” The voice that came from Kyle
sounded so foreign and so utterly wrong that it sent shivers down Declan’s
spine.
Kyle ran toward the pastor, and Joe
caught him by the arm to try to stop him. With inexplicable strength, Kyle took
hold of Joe and threw him at Andy by using one arm. Joe collided with Andy and
fell. Declan instinctively jumped onto Kyle’s back, snaking his hands
underneath Kyle’s arms to restrain him, before he could do any more harm to Joe
and Andy. As his hand made contact with Kyle’s skin, he felt an overwhelming
gloom that seemed to destroy all that was sunny and happy. All the feelings of
dread and misery that Declan had ever felt in his life surged out from all the
repressed corners of his mind. He felt that he would prefer to be dead rather
than to live the rest of his life. As the sense of coldness spread across
Declan’s body, he felt almost frozen.
Kyle started to spin to try to
throw Declan off, and it jogged Declan out of his gloom. He tried to use his
weight to pin Kyle down, but Kyle was much stronger than he appeared. He stood
as if there was a mere child on his back. Kyle started spinning faster, but
Declan held on tight.
“Help, guys, help! What are you waiting for?” shouted Declan as
he clenched his legs tighter around Kyle’s abdomen. He kept his eyes closed
because he felt that if he opened them, he’d be sick all over the linoleum floor
from all the spinning Kyle was doing.
Joe ran into the room with a
sedative shot he’d pulled out of the locked medical cabinet outside the room.
He leaped onto both Declan and Kyle to add the extra weight to help pin Kyle
down, but immediately, he was flung off, and he fell hitting his shin on the
bed table. “Ahhh!” he screamed.
Declan managed a shout to Joe.
“Throw it to me!”
Joe carefully tossed the sedative
to Declan. It arched toward the ceiling and Declan held one firm grip on Kyle’s
arm while he held up his other hand. He
caught the shot and grabbed it tightly.
“Got it!”
He looked at the tranquilizer in
amazement, almost proud that he had caught it despite the chaos and
shouting. But his conquest was
short-lived; Declan hesitated a fraction of a second too long. Using his newly
freed hand, Kyle grabbed Declan off his back and with a loud grunt placed
Declan into a tight chokehold in front of him. Declan started to make gagging
noises and his eyes widened with terror when he realized that Kyle’s free hand
was inching toward his neck. He struggled but Kyle was too strong. When the
injection went into his neck, he screamed.
Immediately, darkness crept into
Declan’s vision and threatened to overwhelm him as deoxygenated blood flowed
through his brain. Luckily, the sedative worked quickly.
Just before Declan lost consciousness, Kyle’s arms fell limp
and collapsed, letting go of Declan.
Guest
Post:
I
would like to thank you for allowing me to share a little about my young adult
paranormal fiction novel, IN THE EYES OF MADNESS of the DECLAN PETERS CHRONICLES
series, and myself. Let me start off saying that I’m a huge fan of the
paranormal and urban fantasy genre. I
feel that I already spend most of my day in the real world (going to work,
playing and taking care of my kids, and spending time with my wife). When I open a book, I want to dive into a
world that is magical, where anything can happen. So, one might ask, well, why not just pure
fantasy novels? Fantasy novels tend to
build amazing magical worlds that can allow the reader’s imagination to
completely run free. I would agree with
that. And I do enjoy a fantasy novel every so often for that reason. However, urban fantasy has the ability to
cause a paradigm shift from how we would view our everyday life. They like to twist the things that would seem
mundane into things that really make you wonder. And when you then add the paranormal theme to
these urban fantasies what you end up with is a masterpiece that drills down
the dark forbidden paths that you would avoid in real life. These stories
tantalize your curiosity, fear, excitement, and bewilderment all at the same
time.
I
guess I would say that the idea of my novel came to me in a somewhat mystical
way. About four years ago, my wife and I
had our first baby. Months of sleepless nights went by and we both looked like
zombies. Then, one night a very strange dream (more like a nightmare) came to
me about a teenager working in a mental asylum. The patients there were all
gaunt and ghastly with very abrupt demeanor changes. Some of the things the
patients were doing were fairly odd and supernatural (like levitating,
retrieving objects via telekinesis, and speaking with multi-vocal projections).
And I remember wandering to myself, are
these people all just insane or demon possessed. Then the teenager went
into a room and called the patient residing in the room, “mom.” She turned around abruptly, and the expression
on her face was terrifying as she pounced on him. I woke up immediately. As
shaken from the dream as I was, I couldn’t help wanting to find out what
happened to the teenager. I tried to go
back to sleep in hopes of getting the dream to continue. But it didn’t work. The next morning, I told my wife about the
strange dream and how I had hoped that it had continued when I went back to
sleep. So my wife told me that it sounded
like it would make an excellent novel and that I should write my own ending.
And
over the past four years, I’ve been working hard (writing and re-writing) this
story. It’s funny how things tend to
fall into place. When I started writing
the story, my role within the energy company that I was working at the time for
had changed. And I ended up traveling almost every month. There were just so many movies that you can
watch on the plane before you get extremely bored, so I continued my writing
while I was on the plane and at the airports during a layover. Were I at home, I think I would have spent
the time with my wife and kids instead.
And now, four years later, I published my 222-page novel, IN THE EYES OF
MADNESS, with Sola Fide Publishing. IN
THE EYES OF MADNESS is volume one of the DECLAN PETERS CHRONICLES series. You
can expect to dive into a magical world that mirrors our own. Explore hidden
secrets behind the heroes and the villains that are sure to keep your minds wondering.
About the Author
Project manager by profession but modern Renaissance man by nature, Michael Pang has dabbled in many different areas in his career. From working with steam turbines to eventually switching into the world of IT, his plethora of experience highlights his personality – he’s a person always searching for more knowledge.
Michael was born in Hong Kong in 1983. His family immigrated to San Francisco when he was three and eventually landed in Florida. After graduating from high school, Michael gained his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech. Despite his currently demanding work schedule, Michael is very involved in activities at his local Project Management Institute Chapter where he fulfills his passion for teaching as the Vice President of Education. But, his desire to serve and help others doesn’t end there, he’s an avid Christian and very active in his local church. He loves kids, with two daughters of his own with his lovely wife, and volunteers at children’s church in his ministry.
He speaks fluent Cantonese and Mandarin and in his free time enjoys reading, writing, eating, cooking, playing music, dancing, singing, and watching musicals. One of his mottos is “Everyday that he hasn’t learned something new is a day wasted.”
Michael was born in Hong Kong in 1983. His family immigrated to San Francisco when he was three and eventually landed in Florida. After graduating from high school, Michael gained his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech. Despite his currently demanding work schedule, Michael is very involved in activities at his local Project Management Institute Chapter where he fulfills his passion for teaching as the Vice President of Education. But, his desire to serve and help others doesn’t end there, he’s an avid Christian and very active in his local church. He loves kids, with two daughters of his own with his lovely wife, and volunteers at children’s church in his ministry.
He speaks fluent Cantonese and Mandarin and in his free time enjoys reading, writing, eating, cooking, playing music, dancing, singing, and watching musicals. One of his mottos is “Everyday that he hasn’t learned something new is a day wasted.”
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