Intensive Scare
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Judy Adams was preparing to marry police officer Steve Mason when sadistic serial killer Simon Rocail invaded her life and turned her dreams of happiness into a living nightmare.
Simon is cunning, remorseless, and terrifyingly patient. Behind an outwardly ordinary appearance lurks a predator who carefully selects his victims—and Judy has become more than another target. She is an obsession. Even after surviving his brutal attack, Judy may not be safe. Simon is already planning to finish what he started.
But the deeper Steve and Judy are pulled into Simon Rocail’s world, the stranger their nightmare becomes. Simon’s twisted past reaches into childhood abuse, occult beliefs, and a family history steeped in violence and darkness. Soon the people surrounding Judy are confronting a frightening question:
Is Simon Rocail merely a psychopath—or has something even darker followed him into their lives?
As Judy struggles to reclaim her future with Steve, murder, obsession, trauma, and the supernatural collide in a relentless battle between a woman determined to survive and a monster who refuses to let her go.
From John A. Russo, co-writer of the legendary horror classic Night of the Living Dead, comes Intensive Scare, a savage psychological horror novel of serial murder, obsession, and supernatural terror.
Some killers haunt their victims long after the blood has dried. Simon Rocail may never stop.
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About the author
With 40 books published internationally and 19 movies in worldwide distribution, John Russo has been called "a Living Legend." He began by co-authoring the screenplay for the horror classic, Night of the Living Dead, and went on to build an iconic decades-long career.
His books on the art and craft of movie making have become bibles of independent production and have won a national award for Superior Nonfiction. Quentin Tarantino and many other noted filmmakers have stated that Russo's books have helped them launch their careers.
John Russo wants people to know he's "just a nice guy who likes to scare people" -- and he's done it with novels and films such as Return of the Living Dead, Midnight, The Majorettes, The Awakening, Heartstopper, and My Uncle John is a Zombie!
He's had a long, rewarding career, and he shows no signs of slowing down. In 2024, Lionsgate acquired a Western written by him, The Night They Came Home, about the murder spree perpetrated by the Rufus Buck gang, who were all hanged in 1895.
Russo's popularity among genre fans remains at a high pitch. He appears at many movie conventions each year as a featured guest, and hundreds of attendees come to his tables or to the bar to share drinks, jokes, and serious conversation.
