About L. Andrew
Cooper:
L. Andrew Cooper thinks the smartest people like horror,
fantasy, and sci-fi. Early in life, he couldn’t handle the scary stuff–he’d
sneak and watch horror films and then keep his parents up all night with his
nightmares. In the third grade, he finally convinced his parents to let him
read grownup horror novels: he started with Stephen King’s Firestarter, and by grade five, he was doing book reports on The Stand.
When his parents weren’t being kept up late by his
nightmares, they worried that his fascination with horror fiction would keep
him from experiencing more respectable culture. That all changed when he
transitioned from his public high school in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia to
uber-respectable Harvard University, where he studied English Literature. From
there, he went on to get a Ph.D. in English from Princeton, turning his
longstanding engagement with horror into a dissertation. The dissertation
became the basis for his first book, Gothic
Realities (2010). More recently, his obsession with horror movies turned
into a book about one of his favorite directors, Dario Argento (2012). He also co-edited
the textbook Monsters (2012), an
attempt to infect others with the idea that scary things are worth people’s
serious attention.
After living in Florida, South Carolina, Georgia,
Massachusetts, New Jersey, and California, Andrew now lives in Louisville,
Kentucky, where he teaches at the University of Louisville and chairs the board
of the Louisville Film Society, the city’s premiere movie-buff institution.
_Burning the Middle Ground_ is his debut novel.
Burning the Middle
Ground
Book Synopsis:
Burning the Middle Ground is a dark fantasy about small-town
America that transforms readers’ fears about the country’s direction into a
haunting tale of religious conspiracy and supernatural mind control. A
character-driven sensibility like Stephen King’s and a flair for the bizarre
like Bentley Little’s delivers as much appeal for dedicated fans of fantasy and
horror as for mainstream readers looking for an exciting ride. Brian McCullough
comes home from school and discovers that his ten-year-old sister Fran has
murdered their parents. Five years later, a journalist, Ronald Glassner, finds
Brian living at the same house in the small town of Kenning, Georgia. Planning
a book on the McCullough Tragedy, Ronald stumbles into a struggle between
Kenning’s First Church, run by the mysterious Reverend Michael Cox, and the New
Church, run by the rebellious Jeanne Harper. At the same time, Kenning’s pets
go berserk, and dead bodies, with the eyes and tongues removed from their
heads, begin to appear.
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May 8 - Read 2 Review -
Character Post
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Sunshine - Review
May 10 - Spellbindings - Guest Post
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May 14 - Workaday Reads -Guest Post
May 15 - The FlipSide of Julianne - Interview
May 16 - Once Upon a
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May 17 - Sheila Deeth
- Character Post
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- Review
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Beauty in Ruins - Review
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May 31 - Armand
Rosamilla, Horror Author - Guest Post
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Sheep - Guest Post
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