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Happy Halloween from Karina Halle!

It’s Halloween! And who better to get us in a spooky mood than our fantastic author Karina Halle with her Experiment in Terror series, as she introduces us to Lying Season and On Demon Wings – be afraid, be very afraid!

Lying Season and On Demon Wings are two of the most important and game-changing novels in the Experiment in Terror Series, with Lying Season being a universal fan favorite. When I first started plotting out the series, both of those books were sort of a turning point that I was working toward, the kink in Perry and Dex’s story where everything changes – for better and for worse.

On the paranormal side of things Lying Season really explored the ghosts of our past one being the flashbacks Perry has to some shady but long since buried supernatural moments, the other being the literal ghost of Dex’s ex-girlfriend. But while the supernatural threats in Lying Season are regulated to hauntings, everything speeds up in On Demon Wings. Here we have Perry not just haunted but possessed. The darkness she always feared was inside her soul, making it that much harder to battle.

On the relationship and character-driven angle, Lying Season really twisted things around. This is the book in which the reader – and Perry – finally get an intimate look at Dex Foray. It’s the book where Perry comes into her own confidence and strength. And it’s the book where their relationship drastically changes. In On Demon Wings, we see a continuation of that change – for the worst.

I have to say, while Lying Season was the most relationship-heavy and angst-ridden book of the series, that pulled and yanked at your heart (the end of that book was one of the hardest scenes to write), On Demon Wings was the most…devastating. Because of what happens to Perry in On Demon Wings, being possessed and not having anyone around her to support and believe her (save for her sister, Ada), it’s difficult to read just as it was difficult to write. I also found it to be the most terrifying Experiment in Terror book for me. I spent a lot of time researching demonic possession and reading books such as Rosemary’s Baby and watching The Exorcist. These are all elements that I believe in and truly frighten me. Plus nearly the entire book is set in Perry’s home, surrounded by her family. If you can’t be safe with them, in your own bed, you can’t be safe anywhere.

With On Demon Wings picking up a few months after Lying Season ends, the books also serve to show the largest passage of time and the biggest change for both characters. In the whole series, I truly believe these two books to be the most pivotal – and the most terrifying.

The next two instalments in this terrifying and incredibly sexy series will be available from Piatkus Entice on 7th November. Happy Halloween!

 

Want more Dex and Perry in the meantime? Explore the Experiment in Terror tumblr, where you can find inspirations sent in by the readers and editors, along with news and covers!

 

The daughter of a Norwegian Viking and a Finnish Moomin, Karina Halle grew up in Vancouver, Canada with trolls and eternal darkness on the brain. This soon turned into a love of all things that go bump in the night and a rather sadistic appreciation for freaking people out. Like many of the flawed characters she writes, Karina never knew where to find herself and has dabbled in acting, make-up artistry, film production, screen­writing, photography, travel writing and music journalism. She eventually found herself in the pages of the very novels she wrote (if only she had looked there to begin with).