Ring After Midnight

Pineglass, Pennsylvania. Summer, 1987.Nessa Kollar is closing Replay Video when an unlabeled VHS tape appears on the floor. The tape shows Pineglass from impossible angles, records Nessa watching herself, and reveals a clown standing behind her before anything is actually there.Then the clowns start coming through.Televisions. Storm drains. Bowling lanes. Rotary phones. Mall fountains. Anything circular can become a door.The attacks trace back to a children's television broadcast that vanished on Halloween night in 1961, when host Alton Kreitzer interrupted his final song with one warning:Don't give them the last note.Joined by her closest friends, the glam-rock band Velvet Static, a deeply unimpressed sheriff, and a teenager who has somehow lost twenty-six years, Nessa discovers that the clowns are only performers in something much larger.Something is watching Pineglass.It learns through repetition. It grows stronger when people agree. And it wants a perfect ending.The Ring After Midnight is a fast, strange, funny, frightening cosmic-horror novel packed with killer clowns, VHS tapes, rock music, impossible worlds, dimensional doorways, practical-effects-style chaos, and one rule that may keep the universe open:Never give the audience the last note.