The ninth installment in John Ward’s ‘Scareville’ series is out now!

Crystal Lake Publishing is thrilled to announce the release of Scareville: Stay Out of Fort Dread by John Ward. Ward is a horror author from Norton, Ohio, now residing in Canton. He is the author of the Scareville middle-grade horror series, and the horror novel, A Blackened Heart, A Blackened Soul. Scareville: Stay Out of Fort Dread is the ninth volume in the Scareville series and a standalone work. It’s perfect for readers who loved the Goosebumps series, by R.L. Stine, and the Small Spaces series, by Katherine Arden. 

Author: John Ward

“Keegan and his friends are determined to become the next big thing in live streaming. 

But chasing views can lead you somewhere you should never go.”

When they discover that their favorite urban exploring team—the LAF Crew—is planning a livestream inside the abandoned military compound known as Fort Dradd, they can’t believe their luck. Locals call it Fort Dread for a reason. No one knows what really happened there. Whether the stories were fact or fiction. 

They tune in to watch the stream. 

At first, it’s just empty halls and peeling paint, but then they watched on in horror as something came after the LAF Crew. Now Keegan and his friends have a choice: forget what they saw…or go to Fort Dread themselves and uncover the truth. 

But some legends don’t want to be exposed. And some places were meant to stay abandoned. 

Scott Anderson, Goodreads Reviewer, said: “I was immediately pulled into the story from the beginning of the book, the descriptive writing style of each scene made me feel like I was there along with the kids on their adventure. There was an overall feeling of dread that kept mounting throughout the book that kept me turning the pages, I had to keep putting the book down as I was flying through the story and did not want it to end. If I had to choose one word to sum up the book and its ending it would be...Whoa!” 

Scareville: Stay Out of Fort Dread is available in paperback and on Amazon Kindle.

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