Narcissus

By: Adam Godfrey

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

“Terrifying…. You’ll never again trust what’s looking back at you.” (Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters and Quiet Part Loud)

If the remainder of your life was only as long as your ability to avoid your own reflection, how long would you last?

An hour? A day? Perhaps a week?

It’s been said that at the core of every legend lies a seed of truth. For four American tourists vacationing in Greece, this is a lesson learned the hard way.

When the group sets out to find a subterranean pool that’s rumored to be the one by which the demi-god Narcissus once wasted away in self-obsession, what started as a fun excursion quickly escalates into a full-blown nightmare. After looking into the waters of the pool, they come to find their own reflections have become infected by an ancient evil. As they’re picked off one-by-one by a malevolence that resides in the reflective world, those remaining race to find a way to bring the nightmare to an end before it takes them all.

In the meantime, all they’ll have to do is avoid their own reflections.

“Narcissus perfectly blends Greek mythology with the pulse-shredding brilliance of a summer blockbuster, whilst also delivering on something everyone can fear and of which there is no escape… our own reflections and the flawed human beings we truly are.” (Ross Jeffery, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Tome and The Devil’s Pocketbook)

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Creeptastic mythology

Holy crap! I didn’t want this story to end because I was enjoying it so dang much! The author takes us along a suspenseful plot through beautiful scenery and with characters we can relate to and empathize with. The descriptive imagery took me to Mykonos without distracting from the story, and the symbolism and characterizations have my mind racing. This original take on an ancient myth is stunningly narrated by Elisabeth Rodgers.

I feel like I want to start a book club just to talk to people about it. The book screams to be adapted to the big screen!
Applause and thanks to Adam Godfrey for writing a terrific horror story.

A perfect horror novella

The pace is perfect from start to finish, not a single lag in the story telling. Can't wait to read more by this author.

Foreign vacation clashes with old legend

Hooked from the opening scene. I love exploring, even more so if it takes you somewhere forbidden and that is just how this starts off.
Four friends on vacation in Greece are checking on the mysterious Sinister Six, seven friends went in the cave and only one survived. That was over thirty years ago. Rumors must have turned to exaggeration by now.
This was tense and quite creepy at times. I really enjoyed the dynamics of the four friends, their banter made things feel real and that much more tense.
I would love to see the story expanded upon but when the last line dropped I was shaking my head and smiling while cursing out the author😄