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A Vote For Death: An Urban Gothic Horror Tale

by Edwin Brightwater

A referendum under siege

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A referendum under siege

Set in an alternate 1980s rural New Zealand, the novella links a town’s mysterious referendum to a blockade by foreign soldiers and surveillance at a local school. Nine-year-old Mei-lin Johnson senses danger as the vote’s result must be enforced, while the life of Anna Katz, an elderly war veteran living with Mei-lin’s family, is at stake. The setup brings political control into a horror story told through a child’s confrontation with an unseen enemy. Personal courage, morality, and abuse of power are central concerns; the source also signals gruesome horror elements.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in political themes within horror and suspense.
  • Readers looking for a story centered on a nine-year-old protagonist.
  • Readers interested in alternate-history settings, particularly rural New Zealand in the 1980s.

Themes

Political control and surveillancePersonal courageMoralityAbuse of powerHorror and suspense

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Book overview

Can a child win against a world gone evil?

A mysterious vote. A rural town under siege. An old slaughterhouse ready for the unspeakable. And one nine-year-old girl who risks everything to stand against evil.

When her small town must enforce the result of a mysterious referendum, Mei-lin Johnson's life is turned upside down. The town is blockaded by foreign soldiers, there are government spies in her school, and no-one's allowed to talk about it. Although she's just nine years old, Mei-lin is sure that something terrible will happen. And she's right-though the barbarity will take a gruesome form wildly beyond even her darkest fears.

The life of her beloved companion Anna Katz, an elderly war veteran living with Mei-lin's family, is at stake. Now the young girl must decide whether to risk everything against a strange, invisible, all-powerful enemy. What happens when a feisty nine-year-old girl takes on a world that's gone evil?

This horror-suspense novella by Edwin Brightwater is set in rural New Zealand during an alternate version of the 1980s. Tensely paced in gripping prose, its characters must confront hard issues of personal courage, morality, and abuse of power-with a stunning ending whose final twist you won't see coming!

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