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A Place For Sinners: A Novel of Survival Horror Paperback – October 22, 2020

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Sometimes, survival is a sin.

Ko Mai Phaaw, a remote island off the coast of Thailand, awaits its visitors. They will cross the sea at dawn. They always do. All creatures seek retreat in the end.

On the rickety boat is Amity Collins and her brother, Caleb. They have waited years to leave behind their claustrophobic Australian town, an overbearing mother, and their shared traumatic past. For them, this is the long overdue trip of a lifetime.

Also aboard is Robert, a burned-out American businessman in the throes of a midlife crisis. Only he's not alone. Bedbugs and regrets he can't shake have hitched a ride, too.

Tobias, the German backpacker, is in wanderlust. And denial.

Finally, there is Susan Sycamore, a woman with a horrific secret. She has journeyed from country to country, leaving a trail of carnage in her wake.

All of these lives are about to converge on a single strip of sugar white sand. "Discover paradise," the advertisement read. "Come and feed the monkeys!" It sounded like such a good idea at the time.

But on this beach, blood will be shed, and no one will ever be the same.

An uncompromising novel of surreal terror from the author of HOUSE OF SIGHS and THE FALLEN BOYS.

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October 22, 2020
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"Aaron Dries helps lead a new generation of Splatterpunk for a new dark age."

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"I promise that you haven't read anything like this story."

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"...My first taste of pure terror in written form."

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"The most ghastly representations of guttural evil I have ever laid eyes upon."

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About the Author

Australian author, artist, and award-winning filmmaker Aaron Dries helps lead a new generation of Splatterpunk for a new dark age (Brian Keene, author of The Rising). His debut novel House of Sighs was written whilst back-packing through South East Asia, including Thailand, where inspiration struck for his book A Place For Sinners. Aaron won the international Leisure Books/ChiZine/Rue Morgue Magazine Fresh Blood contest, and later released The Fallen Boys, described by filmmaker Mick Garris (director of Stephen King's The Stand and Masters of Horror) as beautiful and brutal. He collaborated with Mark Allan Gunnells on the apocalyptic thriller Where the Dead Go to Die, and recently published the novellas And the Night Growled Back (Cemetery Dance) and The Sound of His Bones Breaking (Crystal Lake Publishing). His short fiction has appeared in numerous horror anthologies. He is currently at work on a new novel and multiple screenplays. For more information visit aarondries.com or contact him on Twitter @AaronDries

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Aaron Dries; 3rd ed. edition (October 22, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 322 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0648994503
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0648994503
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.24 x 0.67 x 7.99 inches

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Author, artist, and filmmaker Aaron Dries was born and raised in New South Wales, Australia. His novels include House of Sighs, The Fallen Boys, A Place for Sinners, and Where the Dead Go to Die, which he co-wrote with Mark Allan Gunnells. His short fiction and illustration work has been published world-wide. Aaron's most recent release is the highly-acclaimed Dirty Heads: A novella of cosmic coming of age horror. Feel free to drop him a line at www.aarondries.com. He won’t bite. Much.

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Amanda Milner

A mind altering trip through every fear and emotion

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 15, 2020

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Another gruesome tale by the mind bending author, Aaron Dries. This story is graphic in ways that shocked me, exposing fears i didn't know i even had, and somehow blanketed by sadness and loss all at the same time. Exceedingly disturbing imagery, mystery, terror, and urgency all wrapped up in his well crafted voice that keeps you turning pages well into the night.

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I was recommended this book from one of those “you enjoyed this? You may like this!” adverts. And… sadly, I didn’t like “this.” It was extremely self-indulgent and while I give it some praise in raw brutality it was not, in my opinion, splatterpunk. It was scenically flourished and otherwise bleak. There is one specific character who is written well but is then written off. The other characters just get to have different mental health issues all at the same time and have no relatable or redeeming qualities.

Overall, this book gave me no horror, it just gave me a run through the jungle action adventure with some gore.

As other reviewers akin to me have said - it was tough to trudge through. I am glad to have it off my shelf.

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Brennan LaFaro

Beautiful prose precedes ultraviolent events

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 6, 2020

Big exhale. This is my first experience with an Aaron Dries book, and it’s… a lot. The story opens with a rescue effort for young Amity Collins, who is lost in the wilderness. The results are equal parts tragic and life-altering leaving Amity deaf and fatherless. Fast forward thirteen years, and Amity, alongside her brother Caleb, decide they’ve had enough of Evans Head, Australia, and decide to travel, ending up in Thailand. A series of events sends them, alongside a few other characters that the reader head hops along to an island called Koh Mai Phaaw to see a local primate-centered tourist attraction.
Once they arrive at the island, everything goes bad. Not pretty bad. Not relatively bad. Real, real bad. What follows is a no-holds barred, ultra-violent(borrowed from the back cover) extravaganza where no character is safe, and Dries doesn’t allow you to look away while he eviscerates and mutilates. Despite the warning the synopsis on the back provides, I found myself ill-prepared for just how gory things would get. There’s a hint given the events of chapter one, but the island visit is truly on another level.
My only complaint comes with the final act of the book. Up until about page 250 or so, the story is enthralling and relatively straightforward. There are hints and subtle elements of the supernatural, but around the third act, things get weird, things get trippy, and for me, things got incomprehensible. Readers who are smarter than I am may find a lot to like here, but there were some things that went over my head.
Something that stands out almost as soon as you open the book is the prose of Aaron Dries. His writing is vivid and even though his descriptions can be downright unsettling, there’s an air of beauty to everything he writes. It didn’t surprise me to learn that Dries works/has worked in nursing and social work. A Place For Sinners would be at home being labeled splatterpunk, but there’s a humanity in the atmosphere throughout the story that doesn’t always show up in comparable works.
While A Place For Sinners didn’t work for me quite as much as I’ve seen it work for others, the writing style Dries employs has me intrigued. This is an author whose other books I’ll be looking out for. Notably, Cut To Care - Dries’ short story collection set to be released next year. A Place For Sinners is now available through Beneath Hell Publishing.

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Seasoned Horror Readers-This is For You

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 14, 2021

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Sometimes, in the genre of horror, a reviewer stumbles upon a dark, glistening vein in the granite of horror. Maybe the reviewer reads a book from a specific indie press and enjoys it so much, they find themselves reading other books they have to offer. Or maybe the reviewer finds an author and they run in a circle of like-minded authors who do collaborative work—so the reviewer finds not just one new favorite author, but several!

I found Aaron Dries in one of the aforementioned dark veins in the granite. Being the excitable and curious reader that I am, I bought myself some of his books. A Place for Sinners entices you with an intriguing premise; boiled down it amounts to the simplest of tropes: A traveling experience to the jungles of Thailand goes terribly wrong.

But what I thought I was signing up for is not at all what I experienced. No, my friends…this novel is so much more than I bargained for.

The reader is invited to go on a journey with the main protagonist, Amity Collins. It is Amity we first read about when she’s only seven years old, and it is Amity the reader will feel most at home and at ease with. Several other characters will travel in and out of the narrative, bringing with them their own, unique POV, but the reader won’t desire to live there. It was refreshing to me to discover that the author knows that.

Aaron Dries gave me a home base, a safe place in Amity Collins. This is important because there are characters in this book that are unsafe. Dangerous. Horribly, horribly disturbing people. I was struck multiple times, almost like a slap in the face, with Dries’ unflinching prose.

There is one line that is so messed up at its core, and delivered with such casual elegance, that I almost missed it until it started glowing in my brain like a neon sign and I was forced to go back and read the line again. I would gasp out loud, “What?” My eyes would dart back and forth, reading that one line over and over—trying to wrap my mind around it—but such evil utterances don’t give more details or explanations. They just are what they are and they stick in your side like a thorn. As I went deeper and deeper into this book, I became a collector of these painful thorns.

What begins as a cathartic adventure to Thailand for Amity and her brother Caleb comes apart at the seams, ultimately ripping open into sheer madness. I’m not exaggerating when I express to you that A Place for Sinners is one thousand different ways to be scared. Everything from wild animals to insects and sociopathic serial killers to isolation. Aaron’s wheelhouse is submerging his reader into the atmosphere of his novel—in this case, a suffocating jungle setting—while simultaneously preying on your worst psychological fears. Needless to say, I was anxious and unhinged emotionally the entire time I read this book.

My only real criticism is that some of the action sequences were disorienting. A few times there were two POVs in dueling streams of consciousness and it was difficult for me to find my footing and understand what I was reading. I longed for a reliable narrator to swoop in and give me a logical telling of what was happening. But again, that speaks to the full submersion the reader experiences—almost drowning in the dark prose and chaos.

It’s my recommendation that if you are a seasoned horror reader looking for something unusual that will knock you on your butt, this is the book for you. I promise that you haven’t read anything like this story, ever.

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