Forsaken

A Novel of Horror

De: Andrew Van Wey

Narrado por: Tom Jordan

Some art takes on a life of its own. A beautiful house. A loving family. Two kids, a dog, and a tenure-track professorship teaching art at the local university. Dan Rineheart is living the dream. But all dreams must end.

When an anonymous painting arrives at the university, Dan is tasked with uncovering the artist. No title. No name. No signature or frame. It’s a disturbing work of grotesque perfection. A work of art...that changes with each viewing. So begins the nightmare. Where painted clocks tick-tock in the dark hours before dawn. Where shadow-wrapped children stalk the halls of a once happy home. Where all paths lead to a forsaken artist and their impossible creation. This is the nightmare Dan Rineheart must enter before it shatters his sanity and devours his family.

©2013 Andrew Van Wey (P)2022 Andrew Van Wey

Wonder performance by Tom Jordan

FORSAKEN is a masterpiece of psychological horror. This book is not about jump scares, but a very intricate telling of a tale of brothers, families, betrayal, and the search for happiness and success. As a professor of art, along with his students, he endeavors to restore priceless works of art that have suffered over time. But something is wrong. It's like a tinnitus. You become aware of it when you least expect it. In this story, it is - the glass. Author Andrew Van Wey pulls you into the lives and the world of the characters, all seemingly normal until an anonymous painting shows up at the art department where the professor works. It becomes his project. His obsession.
I loved this book. I look forward to additional writing by this author.
I also recommend the companion audio book performed by Tom Jordan.

Insanely good!!

Forsaken: a work of Evil Art that is Insanely good!!!! Can’t wait to read more from Andrew Van Wey!

great

loved this book from start to finish, well read, felt like I was there

Speechless!!! Well worth the $$

Amazing story and amazing narrator!!! Not scary but written by a brilliant mind! Loved this book!!!!

Good story - twisted - but had me hooked

I listened to this on a long drive and was not disappointed. Very entertaining. Some of the characters are less than likable, but that’s their way. Definitely in the paranormal realm. A little, not heavy, but maybe too reliant on some perceived animal abuse. Some brief graphic content regarding a dog and a cat gets “punted” off a porch. I’ll kill switch a book as soon as if it gets to much in the animal abuse. This one tottered but never went over the edge. I felt it had a unique, creepy-esque enough, storyline. I definitely wanted to listen to the end. Narration was good.

Terrifying!

Well written. Well paced. Wonderful narrator. Scary, unusual story. If you like horror stories, you’ll enjoy this.

Fabulously creepy!

The story is full of twists and turns and grand imagination! I’ll be reading more from this author!

Talk about Stranger Things!!

Wow…this was a lot to wrap my head around!! It all started with a painting…and Professor Daniel Rineheart’s perfect life begins to unravel. The family’s dog goes missing and Dan starts to see and hear things going bump in the night. Is it all real or imagined? Great tale with excellent narration that keeps you intrigued.

Couldn't stop listening!

I think I listened to this book in one day - I couldn't turn it off! I was really captured by the descriptive language, especially around the painting itself. I feel like the author really set the scene and this was a great haunting story. The narration was excellent as well. This author is new to me but I am already listening to another one of his novels and have another in my Wish List...glad to have found this book and highly recommend!

Van Wey is a guaranteed good time

This is my third Van Wey novel and I really enjoyed it! It's a vintage "decent into madness" tale with some on-brand creep factor for this author.

Tom Jordan is quite possibly the best narrator working today. He is a no frills, to the point reader that wraps you up into the story without becoming distracting.

I will read anything Van Wey creates, and while I preferred his Lost Coast novels, this one scratches the itch for a creepy October read.