{"id":28,"date":"2011-09-18T21:34:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T21:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2022-02-17T01:13:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T01:13:44","slug":"the-engines-of-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/books\/the-engines-of-sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Engines of Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Order The Engines of Sacrifice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darkregions.com\/products\/The-Engines-of-Sacrifice-by-James-Chambers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ON SALE NOW FROM DARK REGIONS PRESS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Praise for <em>The Engines of Sacrifice<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chambers&#8217;s damaged characters cling to hope even as the world comes apart at the seams, making the insanity and despair of their circumstances poignant as well as deliciously creepy.&#8221; &#8212;<em>Publisher&#8217;s Weekly<\/em>, Starred Review <a title=\"Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/978-1-937128-08-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[FULL REVIEW]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Chambers&#8217;s]\u00a0writing style is polished with just the right amount of grit added (in language and mood) to make the reading fast-paced and pleasantly bumpy, like barreling down a bad road at three in the morning, slightly drunk, with a head full of philosophy.&#8221; &#8211;Lovecraft eZine [<a title=\"Lovecraft eZine review\" href=\"http:\/\/lovecraftzine.com\/2012\/08\/14\/kaiju-terror-v-intertextual-reality-james-chambers-the-engines-of-sacrifice-review\/\">FULL REVIEW<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chambers evokes H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s Cthulhu mythos with frightening effective writing&#8230;&#8221; &#8211;Examiner.com [<a title=\"Examiner.com review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/review\/books-the-engines-of-sacrifice-by-james-chambers\">FULL REVIEW<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;one of those books that just sucks you in and does not let go until it is all over.&#8221; &#8211;Horror Bob, The Horror Review <a title=\"Horror Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.horrorreview.com\/2011\/enginesofsacrifice2011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[FULL REVIEW]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UzZ9euvjOYU\" width=\"400\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>In hidden places, they sleep and dream, and through their dreams they touch humanity\u2014but their touch brings only the stains of horror, death, and madness\u2026until the day the Old Ones return. <\/em>In <em>The Engines of Sacrifice<\/em>, acclaimed writer James Chambers delivers four nightmare novellas inspired by the Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.<\/p>\n<p><em>Investigation 37<\/em>: In the late years of the Vietnam War, Lavender May runs away from home to search for freedom and peace in New York City, but instead, she finds only a world of magic, witchcraft, and lies. (Read an excerpt from<a title=\"Investigation 37\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/PDFs\/EOS_Investigation37_excerpt.pdf\"> &#8220;Investigation 37.&#8221;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>The Ugly Birds<\/em>: Only one thing could save Carmine Darabont\u2019s comics magazine from going under: publishing the next chapter of the hit series \u201cThe Otherworlders.\u201d But what dark secret drives its creator\u2014Carmine\u2019s ex-fianc\u00e9\u2014to refuse to deliver it? (Read an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/PDFs\/EOS_UglyBirds_excerpt.pdf\">&#8220;The Ugly Birds.&#8221;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>The Hidden Room<\/em>: At the height of the Cold War, Doctor Calvin Lenox is a member of the Nuclear Emergency Search Team. With his life spiraling into despair, he confronts the mystery of a runaway Soviet defector and the death of three men, only to find himself at the mercy of\u2026the Faceless God. (Read an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/PDFs\/EOS_HiddenRoom_excerpt.pdf\">&#8220;The Hidden Room.&#8221;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>The Engines of Sacrifice<\/em>: What is the power of words? Can they control the fabric of reality? In a horrifying new world, underground author Rowley Cray struggles against a totalitarian government gone insane and the possibility that he can control the souls of the dead. (Read an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/PDFs\/EOS_Engines_excerpt.pdf\">&#8220;The Engines of Sacrifice.&#8221;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Cover art by Jason Whitley.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ON SALE NOW FROM DARK REGIONS PRESS Praise for The Engines of Sacrifice: &#8220;Chambers&#8217;s damaged characters cling to hope even as the world comes apart at the seams, making the insanity and despair of their circumstances poignant as well as deliciously creepy.&#8221; &#8212;Publisher&#8217;s Weekly, Starred Review [FULL REVIEW] &#8220;[Chambers&#8217;s]\u00a0writing style is polished with just the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/books\/the-engines-of-sacrifice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Engines of Sacrifice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/2074"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}