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Siren Kindle Edition

by John Everson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
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Evan is entranced by the alluring song of the beautiful naked woman he saw in the surf one lonely night. But this is no mere seductress. She is a siren, one of the legendary sea creatures who prey on unsuspecting men. And she has claimed Evan as her next lover.

Night after night, Evan walked along the desolate beach, grieving over the loss of his son, drowned in an accident more than a year before. Then one night he was drawn to the luminous sound of a beautiful, naked woman singing near the shore in the moonlight. He watched mesmerized as the mysterious woman disappeared into the sea. Driven by desire and temptation, Evan returned to the spot every night until he found her again. 

Now he has begun a bizarre, otherworldly affair. A deadly affair. For Evan will soon realize that his seductive lover is a being far more evil...and more terrifying...than he ever imagined. He will learn the danger of falling into the clutches of the... SIREN.
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"John Everson is the king of Erotic Horror...The writing is tighter than an airlock, the scenes just absolutely bleeding off the page, leaving you with the taste of saltwater in your mouth, begging for mercy."
--Paperback Horror

"John Everson has a strange fascination with the water and tragedy. His books Covenant andSacrifice are a testament to the fact that whenever people get near a big open area of water, someone dies, and it's never pretty. This time around, death floats with an old sailor's myth, the Siren, and the result is a book that's one part gruesome, one part tragedy, and one part erotic thriller. ... Siren is easily one of Everson's best. This multi-layered story captures the reader with its ability to stir the emotions as well as repulse."
--Dread Central

"Fresh storylines, memorable lifelike characters, horrifying creatures and enough frights to keep you up late into the evening are only a few of the reasons you should be reading John Everson's work. Siren should be at the top of your must read list and I highly recommend it."
--Famous Monsters of Filmland

"His prose fits the unpredictable shoreline: beautiful and rhythmic, yet sharp and sweeps the reader away just as he or she feels the magic is fading into the reality of ordinary lives... What truly brings Siren home and elevates him as an author to a new level is the relationship between Evan and his distraught wife. One could remove the supernatural aspect of this story and it would still hold strong. While the siren myth is handled better than anything else in memory, it is Ligeia's human element which joins drama and horror together so well. Highly recommended."
--Horror World

From the Back Cover

"With Siren, John Everson brings horror fiction back to its roots: scary, sexy and surprising!"
--Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Wolfman

"Siren is as wicked a tale of intense sexual obsession as any you're likely to read, and it'll definitely make you afraid -- very afraid -- of the water. Beware, this sexy siren has teeth, and she knows how to use 'em!"
--W.D. Gagliani, author of Wolf's Bluff

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00BT98IWS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ 47North; Reprint edition (March 12, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 12, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1868 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 334 pages
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John Everson

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John Everson is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of 14 novels of horror and the macabre, including his latest release, THE NIGHT MOTHER, a new novel in the world of the Bram Stoker Award-nominated NIGHTWHERE. Other recent releases include the giallo homage FIVE DEATHS FOR SEVEN SONGBIRDS, the New Orleans black magic thriller VOODOO HEART, and the Bachelors Grove Cemetery-inspired THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY. Other novels include the Fountain of Youth erotic thriller THE FAMILY TREE, the Rosemary's Baby-esque DEVIL'S EQUINOX, the Bram Stoker Award-winner COVENANT, its sequels SACRIFICE and REDEMPTION and the standalone novels THE 13TH, SIREN, THE PUMPKIN MAN, and VIOLET EYES. He is the creator of the characters Danika and Mila Dubov, who appear in the new Netflix series V-WARS, and is also is the author of four collections of short horror fiction, including his latest, SACRIFICING VIRGINS.

John shares a deep purple den in Naperville, Illinois with a cockatoo and cockatiel, a disparate collection of fake skulls, twisted skeletal fairies, Alan Clark illustrations and a large stuffed Eeyore. There's also a mounted Chinese fowling spider named Stoker, an ever-growing shelf of custom mix CDs and an acoustic guitar that he can't really play but that his son likes to hear him beat on anyway. In order to avoid the onerous task of writing, he experiments with the insatiable culinary joys of the jalapeno, loses hours in expanding an array of gardens and chases frequent excursions into the bizarre visual headspace of '70s euro-horror DVDs with a shot of Makers Mark and a pint of 3 Floyd's Zombie Dust Pale Ale.

Learn more about John on his site, www.johneverson.com, where you can sign up for a direct-from-the-author monthly e-newsletter with information on new books, contests and occasionally, free fiction.

Want to connect? Follow John on Instragram @nightwhereman, on Twitter @johneverson, or find him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/johneverson.

Author photo by Noa Chandler.

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3.6 out of 5 stars
3.6 out of 5
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cody
5.0 out of 5 stars my favorite john everson book
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2018
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the main guy is walking on a beach at night
r like he has doing since his sons death who drownd there a year ago but tonight he decides to comite suicide by drowning in the sea but then he hears beautiful singing and decides to look for the person doing it he finds a woman naked singing on the rocky ledge by the sea she then see him and jumps into the sea. after he leaves the beach he then goes to take his wife home from the bar knowing that if he dosent she won't come home. the next night at the beach he's singing a song and and then he hears the singing again he begins to walk with his eyes closed toward the singing voice and then he stops and opens his eyes because he feel the water on him he has phobia of water and can't swim so he's very scared and notice the naked lady looking at him again but then she swims away just like last night so he turns around and begins RL wade back to the beach. on the third night on the beach he finds the naked lady singing again but this time she doesn't swim away and comes over to him they then have sex the whole timw she's singing aceter they have both climaxed he wakes up alone on the beach he then goes home hides his clothing in the garage checks to sew if his wife.his home yet and relived that she is he then takes a shower and goes to bed the next day at work hes talking to his friend who two nights ago they were drinking beer at the bar and he tells.him about the Afair he had whith the woman his freind then precedes to tell him about how people have drowned there over the years he then tell him that he thinks the woman is asiren back to the present at work he shows the guy a old newspaper article that he got from the library convince the guy that the last he'd been having sex with is a siren the paper tell how a ship crashed there in the 1800s s man was talking about a woman singing as they were docking the ship he doesn't believe him of but agree to not go to the that night because his friend wants to go with him tomorrow and go scuba diving hoping to find a way to get the GUy to quit going to thebsea at night to meet his lover
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Rys
4.0 out of 5 stars Mostly enjoyed from start to finish.
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2013
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I'll try to keep the spoilers next to nil, but I may not do it very well, so please do be warned by that.

Overall, I enjoyed the feel of this story, the timespan on it is only really a few weeks, and some parts of it can be a little bit slow, but it's more of a good slow than many other examples of slow progressing plots. The slowness of the progression reflects the intricacies of the Siren's hold over the main character.

One of the biggest negative factors that I read in other reviews is that they can't understand Evan ignoring his friend's advice about this woman he's seeing, and that his choices make no sense. Simply put, nearly anyone would ignore their friend's warnings about a person you are seeing being something you consider a myth. Not to mention, it's easier to be like "hey, she just really likes the beach" instead of "yeah, she's totally something I don't accept to be real".

As for the choice at the end, I honestly quite liked it.

Character growth and development is a little lacking, but I disagree with some of the characters being mere shells with nothing to go on. I found myself siding with the Siren near the end of the novel. She may have taken everything from Evan, but there was quite literally nothing in the book that suggested she honestly wanted to make him another victim until after he attempted to kill her. She had ample opportunity and always respected his wishes until he shunned her. Then, her actions are that of a predator getting what she wants.

Some of the side characters lack enough development. Evan's wife, for example. Normally in these kinds of stories, I'd be entirely on the side of the ignorant spouse, but it's hard to feel empathy for a character that you only start to get to know close to the end of the tale.

There are a couple of loopholes in the story telling that make no sense, the suggestion that the siren attacks existed in Delilah before she actually existed in Delilah, for one. I suppose that could be chalked up to superstitious beliefs of an older time, but it wouldn't explain the proclaimed lack of siren activity for a century before the Siren was reawoken, you will still expect some tales of missing people and any kind of accident being blamed on the Siren.

Overall, the story was entrancing enough to make me finish it as quickly as possible, but there were still a few issues that I had with it. I would definitely recommend (and actually have recommended) this book to people to read.
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Julie Franklin
3.0 out of 5 stars good writing for an old legend
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2010
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I bought 'Siren' having not read anything by the author previously. I enjoyed the writing, and the slow build, and those are the strongest points of the book for me. The detractors are also just what I consider points that would have made the book better, and they may not bother other readers. One, our protagonist does some dumb stuff. Repeatedly. The guy does not listen to his friend, pay attention to some plot points directed right at him, and doesn't act like someone who can really think deep. I'm not giving any plot away, so I'll stop there. If you like good writing and well drawn characters--Everson's secondary characters are more real than his protagonist in this book. Everson knows what to say and how to describe his people in the fewest number of words to give them life. If you enjoy buying books looking for something new and different, you would like this one for originality of an old legend.
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roxie
2.0 out of 5 stars OK for not much money
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2013
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While I love fiction and fantasy, and this book held me pretty much until the very end, I found it illogical in the main character's reactions. For instance, he values his best friend's advice about the siren, but when the friend puts his life on the line in the end negates the sacrifice. Also negates the sacrifice of his wife and son. The end of the book does not make sense for what has been happening in all of the previous pages. It's not an enigma, it's just a nonsensical ending.
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Diana Berry
5.0 out of 5 stars Kept me interested!
Reviewed in Canada on February 4, 2018
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A different kind of read for me. Quite enjoyable, despite the fact the hero was so blind as to the mysterious woman he was meeting every night. Enjoyed the different kind of ending.
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BlackBrigand
4.0 out of 5 stars A strong, erotic horror story, best not read on the beach.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 31, 2013
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SIREN John Everson Kindle Edition

I have always been a great fan of horror novels since I started reading them as a boy in the early fifties and over the years have amassed a large collection, mainly paperback copies and I am now replacing those available with Kindle Editions. This re-organisation has also given me the chance to revisit books that I have not read for a while and try out authors that are new to me. This is the first of John Everson's novels that I have tried and it will not be the last.

Evan is a sad, shell of a man since his son drowned in front of his eyes more than a year before, and is riddled with guilt as his fear of the sea prevented him from saving his boy. Each night he walks the deserted beach for hours before collecting his alcholic wife from the local bar. Then one night he was drawn to the sound of a beautiful, naked woman singing near the shore in the moonlight. Driven by desire and temptation, Evan returns to the spot every night until he finds her again, but she is a siren, one of the legendary sea creatures who prey on unsuspecting men and she has claimed Evan as her next lover.

SIREN is a well written erotic horror novel that holds the reader with a need to find out what will happen next and stick with it until the violent climax. Siren is full of gore and suspense and some graphic sexual descriptions but the story unfolds well and despite being a bit repetitive at times is a strong, enjoyable, unusual tale.

I shall cetainly look for Mr.Everson's other works.

The Kindle Edition is well formatted with hardly any noticable errors.
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Hamilton Hill
2.0 out of 5 stars Started reading it thinking it would be a good horror story - this isn't
Reviewed in Australia on March 14, 2015
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Started reading it thinking it would be a good horror story - this isn't. Gave up in less than a day but didn't claim the cover price back on Amazon's 7 day money back warranty. That's because I'm not to saying it's not a good read and I may just go back and finish reading when I'm not in "horror" mode.
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Avril R.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 10, 2017
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What a brilliant book! I love horror stories and this one was well written with a twist in the tale! You almost sympathise with the Siren as I think she really cares for Evan in her way! I couldn't put it down and highly recommend it to horror lovers!
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AndyF
3.0 out of 5 stars Ok but not great
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2017
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Story good but not compelling. Characters not well enough drawn. Worth reading but only just. Strange mix between horror and thriller.
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