Star Prey (ePub)

Once the King of B-movies, actor Adrian Finesse was now a bitter, over-the-hill has-been who couldn't land a walk-on, let alone a spot on a commercial. But when his agent gets him a gig at a Hollywood A-List party playing a psychic channeler to the spirit world, something strange happens . . . it's no longer an act. A sinister force seems to possess him, filling his mind with evil thoughts . . . much like the murderous nightmares that have recently haunted his dreams . . . nightmares that seem to take him to another time and place . . . Dim, gaslit streets, horse-drawn carriages, sordid London alleyways. A woman appears, the brutal slash of a knife . . then cobblestone streets drenched in blood. Soon the grisly killings in Tinseltown begin and the death count rises, with a Jack the Ripper-like serial killer on the loose, stalking his next . . . Star Prey.

Ehren M. Ehly was the pen name used by 1980's Pulp Horror author Moreen Ehly (1929-2012). She was the author of four published horror novels: Obelisk, Totem, Evil Eye, and Star Prey. Raised in Egypt during her formative years, the English-born Ehly was forced to flee the country in 1952, during the July Revolution that overthrew King Farouk. She eventually immigrated to the United States, settling with her husband in Southern California to raise a family. In her late 50's, Ehly took up fiction writing, inventing lurid tales of terror set mostly in modern-day Cairo, New York, and Southern California, whose characters proved no match for the ancient evils found within the mystical superstitions of the East.