Skip to content

Opening book details…

Can I read Dead Lines : a Novel of Horror on EtoBox?

Dead Lines : a Novel of Horror by John Skipp & Craig Spector is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Dead Lines : a Novel of Horror about?

Foreword by David Niall Wilson plus a new author's foreword by Craig Spector and Afterword by John SkippDEAD LINES is about a young writer/artist type, Jack Rowan, in NYC, whose career never took off. Hs life is in the toilet. He’s broken up with his girlfriend and crashing on the couch of his more successful photographer friend, Glen’s, loft while Glen is off in LA on a shoot. In the first chapter, Jack finishes his manuscript — a collection of short stories titled NIghtmare NYC — swigs off a bottle of vodka, then boxes the manuscript up, writes DO NOT OPEN UNTIL DOOMSDAY on it, and hides it in a crawlspace in his friend’s apartment. Then he walks up a ladder he set up in the living room, puts the rope he knotted to a steam pipe around his neck/ He takes one last swig off the bottle, looks at a photo in his hand of himself and a woman, says, look what you made me do.The apartment is abandoned until two girls, Meryl, from a wealthy family in Boston and trying to escape her overbearing father by going to college at NYU and Katie, a waitress, become unlikely roommates. Then they start to become friends.One night while Meryl is fixing up her room, she finds the box containing Jack’s l

Who reads Dead Lines : a Novel of Horror?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
John Skipp & Craig Spector
Publisher
Bantam Books
Published
1993
Language
EN
ISBN
9781607013303
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Horror
Rating
4.21 / 5 (118 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

Other editions & translations

More by John Skipp & Craig Spector

Browse all works by John Skipp & Craig Spector

Similar books