SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — Alan Gibson owns a pick-your-own pumpkin and Christmas tree farm. Not typically the stuff of horror fiction. But that’s exactly the setting he used as the setting for his new book, “The Dead of Winter,” about two couples who come to a farm much...
What do you get when you mix loner hikers, a 2200 mile trek from Maine to Georgia, and a culture that requires you to trust strangers? For many, it’s a rewarding hike on the Appalachian Trail. For me, it sounded like the perfect recipe for a horror novel. While...
A Twisted Maze of Fright Written by Megan Sandwick A.B. Gibson’s ability to paint a vivid picture with words that you can literally feel as you read draws you in to his latest thriller, The Dead of Winter, from the start. The detailed description of the Winters’ farm,...
A.B. Gibson combines tropes from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and other slasher films with elements from the gothic novel to develop a disturbing, if familiar, horror story. As Halloween approaches, it’s the last few days for the annual Pumpkin Fest. Families enjoy...
Four friends reunite at a bed-and-breakfast and find some local Halloween-themed attractions to be a little too frightening in Gibson’s debut horror yarn. Married couple Josh and Julia meet up with their pals Dillon and Tara at the tail end of the PumpkinFest at...
