August 6, 2024 - fundinmentalfundinmental

MY REVIEW

I have read Dread, his collection of short horror stories and have Creep, another collection of short horror stories, hanging around, waiting for me to read. He does come up with some of the most fabulous covers, just like he did here for his first novel, The Visitor. I am suitably impressed with his debut and can hardly wait to see what he will come up with next.

For now, let’s get to The Visitor. Sally and her dog are heading to the Catskill Mountains so she can get some writing on her memoir done. I love her dog’s name, Maureen Bojangles, or MoBo for short. There will be no distractions, such as cell phones and TV.

Isolated. Alone. A blizzard. We have to have a blizzard to add that extra dose of WTF.

It all takes place in one night, but that doesn’t mean Kevin Bachar didn’t have a week’s worth of hair raising terror in store for Sally and MoBo, and her boyfriend walked right into the middle of it all. I didn’t see Kevin taking the story where it went, but I loved it. He caught me offguard and book surprises are always welcome.

I love creature features and for a first novel, Kevin has done a bang up job.

I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of The Visitor by Kevin Bachar.

Animated Animals. Pictures, Images and Photos — 4 Star

GOODREADS BLURB

Sally and her dog, Maureen Bojangles, MoBo for short, make the slog from Brooklyn to the family cabin upstate. It’s a 2-hour drive from the city, but it might as well be another planet. Twenty-four pharmacies and bass-thumping clubs, are replaced by tiny hamlets and shoddy cell phone service. But the remoteness is what Sally needs to write her memoir and reconnect with the painful memories of her abusive father.

A major blizzard has made the journey to the cabin an adventure in itself, and on their trek to her writer’s hideaway, Sally and MoBo notice strange tracks in the snow and mysterious sounds echoing in the surrounding forest. Sally wants to tell her boyfriend not to come up because of the treacherous conditions, but he’s already on his way.

Then The Visitor arrives, and Sally, her boyfriend, and MoBo are in for a night of terror and a battle for survival. Will they be able to withstand the horrors unleashed by The Visitor?

Genre: Creature Feature, Fiction, Horror
230 pages, Kindle Edition
Expected publication July 26, 2024

ABOUT KEVIN BACHAR

Kevin Bachar is a national EMMY award-winning natural history documentary filmmaker and WGA writer. The elevated horror film he wrote – The Inhabitant – https://www.lionsgate.com/movies/the-inh… – was released through Lionsgate and is available on most streaming services.

If you’ve watched National Geographic, PBS, or The Discovery Channel over the years you’ve seen his work. He’s the idiot in the water filming sharks or crawling into caves to photograph vampire bats. You can see Kevin at work filming sharks here – https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2703407897/…

The natural world has always captured his imagination and the supernatural world inspires his stories. Through his journeys, he’s interviewed scientists who’ve enlightened him, heard folk tales that have frightened him, and seen quite a few things that have challenged his skeptical mind.

His collection of short stories that weaves together the natural world and the supernatural world entitled, DREAD, is available on Amazon. He’s currently working on his second collection entitled – CREEP.

Complimenting his writing, Kevin has lectured and given presentations at prestigious institutions such as Rutgers University, American University, and the Rubin Museum of Art.
To keep up to date with Kevin’s movies, documentaries, and books –
www.kevinbachar.com
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https://www.instagram.com/kevinbachar/
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjEKM_m…
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1423190/