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★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “John Ward conjures a mercilessly bleak and brutal knife-wound of a narrative.”—Nick Roberts, author of The Exorcist’s House and Mean Spirited
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “A sweeping, harrowing tale of oppression and possession that follows a seemingly cursed character from childhood through his adult life as damn near everyone around him is overcome by evil forces. It’s like Annabelle, Insidious, and The Exorcist all trying to one-up each other.”—Ben Young, author of Stuck and Home
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Scary as Hell. If Blatty and Wan spawned a monstrous book baby, John Ward just unleashed that literary demon upon the world.”—Leigh Kenny, author of Cursed and Hush, My Darling
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “A Blackened Heart, A Blackened Soul is an unrelenting horror novel following our tragedy-stricken protagonist from childhood into adulthood. The terrors that reside in these pages will effortlessly fester their way into the corners of your mind and under the surface of your skin, not only because John Ward is an incredible storyteller, but because they’re coming from a place of genuine fear. This is grief and possession horror at its finest.”—Paul Avery Tindol, author of This House Will Never Be Warm and Hunting Snipe
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “A Blackened Heart, A Blackened Soul deftly balances horror and emotion, faith and doubt, and – above all else – struggle in the face of the bleakest of circumstances with the immeasurable strength of the human condition. In a time when Hollywood has ‘done demons to death,’ this novel is a ghastly hand emerging from the grave to drag us down with it.”—William F. Gray, author of The Devil Within Us All and Our Fathers’ Burden
