L.A. Detwiler: ‘The Christmas Bell’—will they fall to grandma’s malevolent secret?

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Written By Chris Well

Some Christmas ornaments should be left in the attic…

From USA Today bestseller L.A. Detwiler comes a disturbing paranormal horror novel that will bring hell to the holidays and chilling fear to the festivities.

When Candace Mills, 26, heads home for the holidays to visit her mother and ailing grandmother, she’s expecting a peaceful, dull Christmas. She has no idea, though, that a single Christmas ornament is about to send her into a whirling chasm of evil.

It starts with the Christmas bell, scratched and worn in one of Grandma Anne’s boxes in the attic. Once they put it on the tree, Grandma Anne starts to say terrifying things and act strangely. Candace and her mother assume it’s her dementia talking—until they start to have dangerous encounters with a fiendish being.

As the secrets of Anne’s past involving her twin sister rise to the surface, the women face sinister horrors from a dark force looking for revenge.

Will any of them be able to survive, or will they fall prey to the malevolent secret Grandma Anne is harboring from her past?

The Christmas Bell: A Horror Novel
L.A. Detwiler
Categories: Psychic Thrillers, Psychic Suspense, Horror Short Stories

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The Christmas Bell had some pretty terrifying stuff. Family members are often horrible and very few of us come back from the dead to haunt them in such an intense manner. (Jessica’s Reading room)

L.A. Detwiler is a USA TODAY bestselling author and a high school English teacher. L.A. Detwiler has published several novels and written for several women’s publications. After writing her debut thriller, The Widow Next Door, she is continuing to write novels in the genre, enjoying the dark, twisty plots and dedication to creepy realism.

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Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

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