“Ingenious and funny . . . Magnificent.” — Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V for VendettaJack Sparks died while writing this book.It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book. No stranger to controversy, he’d already triggered a furious Twitter storm by mocking an exorcism he
“Ingenious and funny . . . Magnificent.” — Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V for Vendetta
Jack Sparks died while writing this book.
It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book. No stranger to controversy, he’d already triggered a furious Twitter storm by mocking an exorcism he witnessed.
Then there was that video: forty seconds of chilling footage that Jack repeatedly claimed was not of his making, yet was posted from his own YouTube account.
Nobody knew what happened to Jack in the days that followed — until now.
“Wow. Seriously hard to put down.” — M. R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts
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YouTube VS The Exorcist “The Last Days of Jack Sparks” is one clever knock-out of a horror novel, in that the author, Jason Arnopp, has figured out how to blend old-school horror tropes with social media addiction in a real page-turner.Our non-hero, one Jack Sparks, is a self-obsessed narcissist who’s risen to fame writing books about “things”. Drugs, gangs, etc., all bearing the titles “Jack Sparks On —–“. His downward spiral after becoming an addict while writing “On…
An incredibly tense read. A fresh horror classic. This book gives us a protagonist who is right up there with Ignacious Riley of Confederacy of Dunces in his level of self-delusion and self destructive ego. The guy is breathtakingingly, eggregiously, self-centered. Somehow though, the author manages to make us like him. That is an amazing feat.The book is very clever in that the conceit is that the book you are reading is the book that Jack Sparks is writing in the story. It contains author’s notes to his editor written in amongst…
THE Pre-Halloween Spooky Read! Oh wow. What a great book!!! The protagonist is disgusting in the way Patrick Bateman was, although their narcissistic ways comprise most, if not all, of any similarities between these two men.Jack is enough to bring bile up from the depth of our stomachs in his numerous examples of the many ways in which he is vastly superior to all other people. Yet amazingly, the author somehow gets us to like this guy…to start to relate; to develop a kinship.Oh, there is so much I can say to…