|
|
THE WITCHES OF WEST END
AVENUE, NEW YORK
by Clodomiro Giraud,
Jr.
ISBN 1-59113-482-X
THE WITCHES OF
WEST END AVENUE, NEW YORK is an imaginative tale of
beastly-beautiful baby killers, magic, and mayhem.
It begins in Salem, Massachusetts in the 17th century as settlers
come across a ghost town and decide to fix it up. But in picking
this particular place to build a new life, they have opened their
lives to horror. In welcoming some strange women who have come to
town, they have actually invited witches to take control of their
lives and the very blood of their precious babies. But to their
rescue, from a town not far from theirs, comes a man named Kimble,
and he and his followers-"the chosen ones"--soon learn secrets that
enable them to successfully do battle with these evil witches.
Not all died, however; some lived on to fly into New York city in
the 20th century to create a new kind of mayhem and murder. But
their plans didn't include having to fight a warlock bent on sending
their evil spirits back to hell.
New York City, 1985
In a quiet residential area of New York known as West End Avenue,
the weather suddenly becomes cloudy and overcast, threatening rain.
A child looking skyward sees a strange shadow within the clouds that
both excites and terrifies him, and he runs back into his building
to tell his mom.
Through deceptive methods that involve the death of a tenant, two
beautiful women named Jane and Ruth actually 17th century witches in
disguise gain residence at this same apartment building, never
imagining that Richard, a harmless-looking man in a wheelchair who
happens to be a lawyer, would become their most dreaded enemy in the
days to come.
Danny and Gary, two college students in an upper-class neighborhood
known as Garden Pond, go to a new night club after class where they
run into a beautiful woman named Lorraine who will soon decide one
of their fates and cause untold grief for the other. About the same
time, the owner of the club and his bodyguard are killed by some
kind of beast that leaves a bloody, grisly mess that horrifies and
puzzles the police and the two detectives handling the case. But
this is only the first murder of many that detectives Frank and
Jackson will soon be investigating.
As the neighborhood suddenly becomes the center of a string of child
abductions and murders, Richard begins to have haunting dreams of
his father surrounded by ghostly shadows of dark figures wearing
hoods. These dreams lead Richard and his sister, Ann, to search out
his strange past. With help from a friend and ex-cop named Ralph,
the men soon find themselves in the ghostly town of Spellbound,
still under the control of the same witches who once inhabited it in
the 17th century.
You won't want to miss the action as the battle between good and
evil heats up!
. |
