Bestselling Author Offers Delicious Apocalyptic Halloween Ttreat

Online, October 27, 2010 (Newswire.com) - This Halloween horror has a new standard in fiction. By basing his newest novel, Grim Reaper: End of Days (Variance Publishing/Tor-Forge), on the literary classic, Dante's Inferno, NY Times and international bestselling author Steve Alten is setting a new standard of sophistication for horror fiction. After being challenged, frightened, and thrilled by Alten's twisted apocalyptic vision in Grim Reaper, readers will regret returning to the often all-too-predictable horror fare.

Set in 2012, exactly 666 years after Bubonic Plague wiped out half the world's population, Grim Reaper is an epic tale that truly tests the reader's belief system when a man-made version of the Black Death is unleashed in Manhattan. Would you destroy a city of 3 million to save 6 billion? Alten's tour-de-force forces one to realize that no snowflake in an avalanche is ever innocent, and that good and evil serve a greater purpose. While Dante's Nine Circles of Hell provide for a deliciously horrific narrative, there is far more to this hero's journey, and the reader will be spellbound by their own conclusions. Grim Reaper is both the Trick and the Treat; an unusual balance between entertainment and spectacle. And just in time for Halloween!

While Alten's educational background have prepared him to both entertain and challenge readers, an armed robbery that nearly stole his wife's life at the time he was penning Grim Reaper clearly made its mark on this, his tenth novel. (Alten recounts the details in his touching Author's Note) He is also author of the Domain series, the Meg series, Goliath, The Loch, and The Shell Game. Additionally, he founded and participates in the not-for-profit organization Adopt-An-Author, which is utilized in classrooms across the country to motivate high school students to read.

Grim Reaper: End of Days is available in bookstores and online. Readers can find the author and book on Facebook. They can also learn more about the author and book, as well as watch the Grim Reaper video at this amazingly creative author's website: www.stevealten.com.
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