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    Acid Rain

    By Ian Thompson

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    A storm from hell itself?

    After a weekend stopover in the big city, the six passengers of a double-decker bus are on their way home at night. Maddie, their driver, is tough and experienced... but soon very out of her depth. Before they can reach the outskirts of the city, a rainstorm begins like no other Maddie has ever encountered...

    This rain is raw, searing acid. Just a drop on human skin is enough to inflict an agonising burn – and those people caught in the downpour suffer horrendously. Chaos consumes the streets as victims go wild from excruciating pain. Vehicles collide in the panic and the bloodshed escalates...

    The acid rain is attacking not only organic matter, but also plastics, rubber, metals, glass and other materials. It slowly eats through shelters – like buildings and vehicles – to devour the living prey inside.

    Maddie’s bus becomes both a prison and a haven for the seven travellers. Escaping the storm is their only chance for survival. They flee through a landscape being transformed by a dark, liquid apocalypse... while their vehicle deteriorates and their nerves shred with terror...

    Working together, the travellers try to reinforce their mobile shelter and to overcome the harrowing ordeals forced upon them. But how long will the bus continue to run before it succumbs to the acid? Is there any hope left in this realm of torment and death?

    And what new horror awaits them... even more grotesque and appalling than the acid rain?

    This is the twelfth in the series of Short Horror Tales - quick reads written to captivate the reader with thrills, chills and unexpected twists.

    Reviews from this author’s horror releases:

    “...thoroughly spooky, enticing and well written from start to finish.”
    “...great... I could feel the fear...”
    “...shows true mastery of the short horror story... a wildly imaginative antagonist unlike anything I’ve read before... a quick, captivating read full of horror and thrills. The tense action and suspense of Glancing Blow make it incredibly hard to put down...”
    (Glancing Blow – Short Horror Tales #1)
    “...When the blood starts to splatter, Nigel’s day gets really rough. Thompson has devised a brilliantly brutal creature to sic on his leading man. Creative and twisted, the monster is a total terror... Hooker is an absolutely insane, blood-pumping ride... With a wicked cool monster and a page-turning climax, this is one Creature Feature you won’t want to miss out on...”
    (Hooker – Short Horror Tales #2)
    “Great short story...”
    (Ignition Source – Short Horror Tales #4)
    “...well-written, descriptive and enthralling page-turner, that’s not for the faint-hearted... The twists and turns kept me on the edge of my seat...”
    (God Of War)
    “...extremely well written and very dark. The author did a great job of creating a palpable sense of doom that surrounds the main character from the beginning, and then creating more tension and horror as the story went on...”
    (Into The Hole)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIan Thompson
    Release dateMar 24, 2018
    ISBN9781370770281
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