Thrillers & Suspense
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Burn the Negative
In this incendiary mash-up of horror and suspense, a notorious slasher film is remade…and the curse that haunted it is reawakened.
Arriving in L.A. to visit the set of a new streaming horror series, journalist Laura Warren witnesses a man jumping from a bridge, landing right behind her car. Here we go, she thinks. It's started. Because the series she's reporting on is a remake of a '90s horror flick. A cursed '90s horror flick, which she starred in as a child-and has been running from her whole life.
In The Guesthouse, Laura played the little girl with the terrifying gift to tell people how the Needle Man would kill them. When eight of the cast and crew died in ways that eerily mirrored the movie's on-screen deaths, the film became a cult classic-and ruined her life. Leaving it behind, Laura changed her name and her accent, dyed her hair, and moved across the Atlantic. But some scripts don't want to stay buried.
Now, as the body count rises again, Laura finds herself on the run with her aspiring actress sister and a jaded psychic, hoping to end the curse once and for all-and to stay out of the Needle Man's lethal reach.
Arriving in L.A. to visit the set of a new streaming horror series, journalist Laura Warren witnesses a man jumping from a bridge, landing right behind her car. Here we go, she thinks. It's started. Because the series she's reporting on is a remake of a '90s horror flick. A cursed '90s horror flick, which she starred in as a child-and has been running from her whole life.
In The Guesthouse, Laura played the little girl with the terrifying gift to tell people how the Needle Man would kill them. When eight of the cast and crew died in ways that eerily mirrored the movie's on-screen deaths, the film became a cult classic-and ruined her life. Leaving it behind, Laura changed her name and her accent, dyed her hair, and moved across the Atlantic. But some scripts don't want to stay buried.
Now, as the body count rises again, Laura finds herself on the run with her aspiring actress sister and a jaded psychic, hoping to end the curse once and for all-and to stay out of the Needle Man's lethal reach.
Editorial Reviews
**One of Book Riot's Most Anticipated Beach Reads of 2023**
**One of Goodreads' Biggest Horror Books for Summer**
"Burn the Negative is a creepy, twisty, compulsively readable haunted house of a book built from horror movies and our obsessive response to them. You'll root for Laura and fear the Needle Man. Be sure to make the popcorn and dim the lights."
-Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts
"A spine-tingling, rip-roaring yarn that hearkens back to the thrills and chills of the best '80s slasher horror. Hand this to readers who liked The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix, My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones, or My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite."
-Library Journal
"A relentless supernatural page-ripper that doubled as pure catnip for the horror connoisseur in me."
-David Yoon, author of City of Orange
"Burn the Negative knocked me sideways. It is both fresh and familiar-a dark, satirical, and unflinching observation of the movie industry and childhood celebrity, with a monster that will make even your nightmares wake up screaming."
-Rio Youers, author of No Second Chances
"This book had me hooked from line one! Slasher? Final Girl? Haunted hotel? Cursed movie within a movie within a book? Is it possible to seamlessly fold everything a horror fan loves into one story? Josh Winning not only says it is, but in Burn the Negative, he pulls it off flawlessly."
-J.H. Markert, author of The Nightmare Man
"Satisfyingly creepy! A fantastic supernatural thriller that harkens back to horror's glory days."
-J.D. Barker, author of A Caller's Game
"Smart, fast-paced, and devilishly clever."
-Shaun Hamill, author of A Cosmology of Monsters
"Prepare to be caught in the Needle Man's grip-you won't be able to tear yourself away."
-Kat Ellis, author of Harrow Lake
"Josh Winning has won my heart with this Hollywood horror-noir, which plays out like A Nightmare On Sunset Boulevard."
**One of Goodreads' Biggest Horror Books for Summer**
"Burn the Negative is a creepy, twisty, compulsively readable haunted house of a book built from horror movies and our obsessive response to them. You'll root for Laura and fear the Needle Man. Be sure to make the popcorn and dim the lights."
-Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts
"A spine-tingling, rip-roaring yarn that hearkens back to the thrills and chills of the best '80s slasher horror. Hand this to readers who liked The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix, My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones, or My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite."
-Library Journal
"A relentless supernatural page-ripper that doubled as pure catnip for the horror connoisseur in me."
-David Yoon, author of City of Orange
"Burn the Negative knocked me sideways. It is both fresh and familiar-a dark, satirical, and unflinching observation of the movie industry and childhood celebrity, with a monster that will make even your nightmares wake up screaming."
-Rio Youers, author of No Second Chances
"This book had me hooked from line one! Slasher? Final Girl? Haunted hotel? Cursed movie within a movie within a book? Is it possible to seamlessly fold everything a horror fan loves into one story? Josh Winning not only says it is, but in Burn the Negative, he pulls it off flawlessly."
-J.H. Markert, author of The Nightmare Man
"Satisfyingly creepy! A fantastic supernatural thriller that harkens back to horror's glory days."
-J.D. Barker, author of A Caller's Game
"Smart, fast-paced, and devilishly clever."
-Shaun Hamill, author of A Cosmology of Monsters
"Prepare to be caught in the Needle Man's grip-you won't be able to tear yourself away."
-Kat Ellis, author of Harrow Lake
"Josh Winning has won my heart with this Hollywood horror-noir, which plays out like A Nightmare On Sunset Boulevard."
