Bücher von Jonathan Dunne

Dead Ends is an eclectic potpourri of nine horrific tales, including two tales to be adapted for full-length upcoming novels, Drive and FiremanDead-end Tale 1: DriveA battered black Audi Quattro in Old Castle's scrapyard has become a morbid attraction for the town's youth since 17-year-old Kelly Monroe's life was taken in that tomb-on-wheels. Kelly's three best friends make the mistake of paying the scrapyard a nocturnal visit to say a final goodbye.This short story is going to be developed as a full-length novel with the same title slated for late 2024Dead-end Tale 2: HannaHanna, the old woman living at the top of the building, isn't who her neighbours think she is, and there's an odd smell coming down the pipes from her flat.Dead-end Tale 3: The Dark WebThere's something in the attic spinning a dress of silk for Jessica.Dead-end Tale 4: The DareNorman Childers is a suspense writer suffering from writer's block. One sleepless night, he notices something strange in the park across from his apartment. He finds himself being a character in his own novel, but he needs to find out how the story ends.Dead-end Tale 5: Yucky!Widow Slater is a haunted woman who cannot escape her past. Thinking she is losing her mind, she makes a strange confession.Dead-end Tale 6: Bad BloodBaby Starkweather was born with a quirk ¿ he only drinks blood ¿ which is a growing problem for his foster mother. And as little Starkweather grows, so does his thirst.Dead-end Tale 7: The Taxi DriverJake Montgomery suffers a terrible shock when he discovers his daughter Eva is allergic to nuts. Panicked, Jake flags down a taxi to take them to the hospital. The strange taxi driver is determined to get her to the hospital on time...no matter the consequences.Dead-end Tale 8: CrossbreedWhen the Mackenzie family set off on their yearly camping trip, they did and didn't know they would and wouldn't be returning home.Dead-end Tale 9: FiremanWhen Max Power received the alert message on his pager, he expected it would be a night like any other night. He was wrong.This short story is going to be developed as a full-length novel with the same title slated for late 2024

A deep well of the darkest wishes.Rosie and Victor Ryan, real estate investors, land a massive sale to the mystery buyer of Wishing Well House. But the same night the Ryan family celebrate the sale, a bizarre accident robs Rosie of her mobility, freezing their idyllic life in tragedy.Victor volunteers to be quadriplegic Rosie's full-time caregiver. But the accident has turned his wife into a paranoid stranger in a wheelchair she calls Winter. Rosie is convinced an evil entity of untold horror lurks outside their house and is trying to come in. Her obsession with protecting the household triggers Victor's descent into madness.As the Ryan household spirals in claustrophobic dread and terrifying secrets, the eccentric occupants of Wishing Well House carry out a shocking ceremony with sinister results.A mother's love knows no bounds.

Welcome to Hotel Miramar, where the guests aren't guests.Journalist Dan Armstrong works for a struggling local newspaper. To save the tabloid from closure, Dan carries out one last assignment - the mysterious evacuation of the islanders from Crab Island, now an off-limits nature reserve.But Dan and his family soon learn the impromptu evacuation of Crab Island isn't the only mystery on the island. A living, breathing terror lurks on the desolate isle. The Armstrongs don't find a nature reserve, but a freak-of-nature reserve.Dan's story for the local newspaper goes 'viral' for all the wrong reasons.We hope you'll enjoy your stay at Hotel Miramar, a once-in-a-lifetime experience...

The Nobody Show is an accident waiting to happen...Old Castle (population 666 ... 665 ... 664) is a town ravaged by unemployment. The magic is gone and the economy is in the gutter, but newest dole statistic, Arthur Lawless, has a dream...Arthur wants to chase down his childhood dream to build his own circus. He makes it his mission to put on The Greatest Show on Earth - Old Castle's slice of Earth, at least...

Atheist Dr. Jonathan Dunraven meets Jesus in a most nightmarish way. But Jonathan goes on to discover that the holy man is actually a wisecracking, miracle-making joker with a chilling dark side! Then there's that peculiar one-legged crow constantly perched on his shoulder…or is it really a crow?Even though Jesus lovingly warns Dr. Dunraven about the impending apocalypse, the good doctor doesn't see "the invisible monster" coming until it's too late. Finding Jesus is an apocalyptic comedy of sorts.

A pilgrimage and road-trip of unusual dimensions.Follow me, Jonny Rowe, on a wild goose-chase from Ireland to the USA with my American grandfather's remains in my red birthday balloon. I use 'remains' in the loosest sense of the word: my grandfather, 45, puffed his last breaths of air into my birthday balloon before suffering a massive heart attack right there at my birthday party which becomes his deathday party.Feeling responsible for 45's death, and as a thank-you for filling Clinical Dad's void after leaving that questionable suicide note, I make it my quest to return 45 to his birthplace amongst the corn of Iowa, USA, suspended inside his soul-bubble. This journey might also help me with my identity-crisis ... I'm a genealogy student, by the way. And who knows, maybe I'll find love - I tend to find things when I'm not looking for them.Join me on a desperate race against time to unveil the truth as my birthday balloon begins to deflate and loose 45 forever to the wind

Jack shares his fiancée Jeanie's heart in more ways than he would care to admit…Weeks following a horrific accident, Jack wakes on a hospital bed with his bride-to-be's heart pumping in his chest.In death, Jeanie has saved Jack's life…What at first seems to be a gift beyond comprehension, soon becomes a dark obsession for Jack. As long as Jack is alive, Jeanie won't be dead. With every thump-thump of Jeanie's heart, Jack is forever reminded that he owes his life to his dead lover.Unable to find closure, Jack decides to stop his borrowed beating heart…Until Jeanie's best friend and Jack's arch-enemy, Ruthy, tells Jack an old fairy-tale which changes his life forever.Jack finds himself living a fairytale in a fairytale, where matters of the heart and time know no bounds

He has come to the island to get away from the world, but now the world is coming to the island...Theodore Lambert is disillusioned with the world. But who cares? Theodore's wife, Amber, is convinced that the end of the world is coming in the form of a giant asteroid.Needing a detox holiday, Theodore and his family find themselves living in a mystical island lighthouse on the wild Atlantic coast of Ireland, far away from the lunacy of the modern world.But not far enough, apparently..

Forcefully-retired zoo-keeper Mick Munroe is hiding two BIG things: Alzheimer's and a 42 year-old Indian elephant called Sinbad.Mick and his elephant become overnight on-the-run, anti-hero legends when Mick, an old rebel with a cause, takes matters into his own hands.The Alzheimer's brings Mick something very special: an adventure he never thought possible with his dear old friend, Sinbad.

Living Dead Lovers follows the life and times of famed psychic-medium, half-Romani gypsy, Valentina 'Cabbage' Moone, from her mute infancy trawling the roads of Europe to a fiery-tongued, hard-drinking, speed-loving clairvoyant with a complete disregard for human life, including her own of late…Psychic-medium Cabbage brings forth more than she can chew with womanizing dead racing-car driver, Marty 'Magma' Molloy, who doesn't want to give up the chase. A twisted love-affair never meant to be. Necrophilia: that's what the sceptical call it. Romantics call it the yin-yang love between being and human being, light and, oh, so very dark.And her guardian angel Mr. Brick Shithouse makes it even more complicated...

It is always night in the cave. Take my cold hand.Weeks before young Fern Keegan sees what she sees in the river tunnel during the Old Castle floods, a deranged patient, Gabriel Bogdan, makes an outrageous claim nobody at The Hillside psychiatric hospital believes until it's too late.Thirteen years later, a school tour in the local cave unravels into blind terror when the teachers and students realise they are not alone in the flooding underground chasms of horror. The river runs through it, and the river runs deep.My name is Daisy, but you may know me as Crazy Daisy.

Language is encoded. The words we use every day can tell us something about the meaning of human life, our purpose in this world, the divine being known as God, the creation of the world, the Fall, the economy, the environment... Once our eyes are opened at birth or soon after, we think that we see, but we do not realize that there is another level to reality, a spiritual dimension, for which we need our spiritual eyes to be opened. When this happens, when we believe in God and participate in the sacraments of the Church, we begin to perceive God all around us, in everyday objects such as trees, rocks, nature. These other realities, hitherto unseen, are called "logoi" in Greek-fragments of the Word. They are also present in language. Apart from the meaning we give them, words contain their own meaning. They can be read in reverse, the letters can be rearranged or changed according to the rules of phonetics, their order in the alphabet, their appearance. The rules that must be followed to find connections between words and uncover their deeper meaning are always the same. Seven Brief Lessons on Language aims to give the reader a simple, but in-depth view of the spiritual side to language. Its title and format are adapted from Carlo Rovelli's book Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, but the content is entirely different. Each chapter can be read in a single sitting. Put together, these seven lessons (and a short postscript) will open the reader's eyes to a reality they never knew existed.

This revolutionary book sets out to persuade the reader that the English language is not the result of years of haphazard evolution, a chaotic atom-like conglomeration of words, but a carefully planned whole in which each word has its place and is connected by a consistent set of rules. It is not by chance that 'earth' is 'heart' or 'soil' is 'soul', for instance, or that 'salt' makes us 'last' ('You are the salt of the earth') but 'last' is in fact 'lst'. This book journeys from the Book of Genesis and Creation to Revelation and the Last Judgement through the English language, suggesting that language has something to tell us about the environment and that he who would be true to himself is inexorably pushed out on to the margins. First published in 2007, it is now reprinted. A later book, The Life of a Translator (2013), also looks at English word connections and discusses coincidence in translation.

How are English words connected? Is there a consistent set of rules by which words in the English language are connected not according to their etymology, their evolution over time, but according to their letters? These letters may be rearranged, read back to front, altered according to the laws of phonetics, their position in the alphabet, their physical appearance, their numerical value. So while the reverse of "live" is "evil", we can count down from I to O and find "love" instead (as "sin" gives "son"). The "ego", by taking a step back in the alphabet, can be turned into "God". Using the laws of phonetics, we can realize that the true purpose of the "self" is to "serve". In "The Life of a Translator", Jonathan Dunne offers a clear, direct introduction to the ways in which English words can be connected according to their DNA, arguing that words have something to tell us about human life, but their meaning is hidden and must be deciphered ("God" is "code"). In this sense, language is similar to the environment. We think we see what is around us, but we are spiritually blind even after we have opened our eyes, and it is this spiritual blindness causing a crisis in the world because of how we treat our world, the environment, each other and, ultimately, ourselves.