A cross between A Night At The Museum and Jurassic Park with a dash of Poltergeist, The Paleontologist will chill you to the bone and terrorize your dreams. You’ll never look at a museum exhibit the same way again. Luke Dumas has crafted a harrowing tale that’s scary enough to make you stop reading, but curious enough to force you to keep going.
Simon Nealy’s sister was abducted from the Hawthorne Museum of Natural History when they were kids. Now a doctor of paleontology and museum curator, Simon has returned to the Hawthorne to finish a dinosaur exhibit years in the making while also searching for answers about his long lost sister. But strange things are happening in the museum. Simon hears unexplainable animal sounds, sees giant bloody footprints and is stalked by prehistoric killers. Despite fearing he’s losing his mind, Simon searches the archives for clues about the and obsesses over solving his sister’s disappearance while trying to complete the exhibit on time for the big reveal. But what will be revealed is way more than dinosaur bones and will shake the community to its core.
A crime novel wrapped inside a ghost story, The Paleontologist combines two main storylines into one riveting story of obsession, madness and vindication. It explores the search for truth in the face of extensive skepticism and institutional opposition, and how the human spirit will not give up no matter the odds if the cause is just in the eyes of the pursuer. And that all it takes is a friend who believes in you, has your back and encourages you to keep going. It also helps if that friend has a fat checkbook and a similar window into a supernatural world that others don’t possess. Also, it has dinosaurs. Big ass dinosaurs. Which is awesome and scary. But mostly awesome.
Luke Dumas is carving out a nice niche on the scary story scene, going two for two with frightening the crap out of readers accompanied by a side of anxiety induced blood pressure increases. Don’t sleep on his horror stories…and don’t expect to sleep after diving into one.
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