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{{Short description|Series of novels by Jonathan Maberry}}
{{Infobox Novel series
| name = Pine Deep Trilogy
| books = ''Ghost Road Blues''<br> ''Dead Man's Song''<br> ''Bad Moon Rising''
| author = [[Jonathan Maberry]]
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| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = [[Horror fiction|Horror]]
| publisher = [[Pinnacle Books]]
| pub_date = 2006 - 2008
| media_type = Print (Paperback)
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The '''''Pine Deep Trilogy''''' is a series of [[supernatural]] [[Horror fiction|horror novels]] by [[Jonathan Maberry]]. The series is set in Pine Deep, a fictional rural Pennsylvania town that becomes plagued by an evil force thought previously killed thirty years ago. In the books the town is considered to be "the most haunted town in America" and has a booming supernatural [[Tourism|tourism industry]] based around the town's history and [[Halloween]]. The trilogy is composed of ''Ghost Road Blues'', ''Dead Man's Song'', and ''Bad Moon Rising''.
The first book in the series, ''Ghost Road Blues'', won the [[Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel]] in 2006<ref name="BSA">{{cite web|url=http://www.horror.org/stokerwinnom.htm#2006 |title=2006 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners |publisher=Horror Writers Association |accessdate=2008-05-31 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100719141024/http://www.horror.org/stokerwinnom.htm#2006 |archivedate=July 19, 2010 }}</ref> and was one of ''[[Complex Networks|Complex]]'' magazine's "25 Best Horror Novels of the New Millennium".<ref>{{cite web|last=Barone|first=Matt|title=The 25 Best Horror Novels of the New Millennium|url=http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/03/the-25-best-horror-novels-of-the-new-millennium/ghost-road-blues|work=Complex|accessdate=23 September 2012}}</ref>
Pine Deep also appears in a crossover short story of Jonathan Maberry's ''Joe Ledger'' series of books, Material Witness. In Material Witness, a stand-alone short story that takes place in the early days of Joe Ledger's service in the Department of Military Sciences (a top secret division of Homeland Security), Joe Ledger and the DMS must protect a Pine Deep resident spook and author who is in over his head with the wrong people and may know more than he is letting on and in Pine Deep, nothing is what it seems.
==Premise==
Thirty years ago, Oren "Bone Man" Morse was murdered by several townspeople that believed that he was responsible for a series of brutal and gruesome murders in the town of Pine Deep. Before he was killed, Morse tried to explain that the killer was actually local townsperson Ubel Griswold. Morse had fought and killed Griswold, who had been committing the murders while in his werewolf form, but was unable to convince the townspeople of his innocence. Years later Griswold reawakens and with the help of local mechanic Vic Wingate and the psychopathic Ruger, plans to be reborn and exact unimaginable terror on the town. However just as Griswold has awakened, so has the Bone Man, the man who originally stopped Griswold's initial reign of terror on the town.
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===''Ghost Road Blues''===
▲The heroes of the Trilogy are Malcolm Crow –owner of a local Halloween-themed craft store and a survivor of the original massacre. As a boy of nine Crow was saved by the Bone Man who prevented Griswold from killing him. His fiancé, Val Guthrie, is also a survivor, though it was her family that suffered at Griswold’s hands. Their friend and the mayor of Pine Deep, Terry Wolfe, has been suffering a terrible psychological breakdown that has roots in a moment of childhood trauma where his sister was murdered by Griswold and he was nearly killed.
In ''Ghost Road Blues'' Crow and his friend Terry have begun having nightmares, with Terry having ones that show him either committing atrocities or watching his city burn. Meanwhile, Crow has been planning to propose to his girlfriend Val, only for her and her family to be brutally attacked by Karl Ruger. The event leaves Val's father dead, her sister-in-law mentally scarred, and both herself and Crow heavily wounded.
===''Dead Man’s Song''===
In ''Dead Man’s Song'', Crow and local newsman Willard Fowler Newton, begin tracking the backstory of the events of thirty years ago, while at the same time Vic Wingate and Karl Ruger quietly begin building an army of the undead to prepare for Griswold’s return. They intend to launch the Red Wave, a massive attack scheduled for Halloween Night. While Crow and Newton are down in Dark Hollow, a remote spot where Griswold both lived and died, one of Ruger’s companions, Boyd, has become a strange kind of mindless vampire.
At the same time, Terry is spiraling deeper and deeper into depression and insanity due to the images he sees when he manages to sleep as well as the waking visions of the sister Griswold murdered. Terry begins to lose control of himself, snapping at others and acting out of character. It's only after he almost kills his wife while he was beginning to succumb to the evil inside of him that Terry throws himself out of a window in an attempt to commit suicide. Meanwhile, Mike is still being stalked by Tow Truck Eddie, having a few close calls and being saved multiple times by the intervention of the ghost of Owen Morse.
===''Bad Moon Rising''===
Author Jonathan Maberry includes a number of real world elements in his novels, and this is most apparent in the final book of the trilogy, Bad Moon Rising. Pine Deep’s Halloween Festival is the centerpiece of the story and several actual celebrities from the horror industry appear as ‘guest stars’ including [[Ken Foree]] (star of the original Dawn of the Dead]]), makeup effects wizard [[Tom Savini]], scream queens [[Brinke Stevens]] and [[Debbie Rochon]], screenwriter [[Stephen Susco]] ([[The Grudge]] and [[Grude 2]]), writer-director [[James Gunn]] (remake of [[Dawn of the Dead]] and [[Slither]]), drive-in movie critic [[Joe Bob Briggs]], and actor, stuntman and haunted attraction consultant [[Jim O’Rear]].▼
''Bad Moon Rising'' picks up at the end of the events of the previous novel. Val is temporarily hospital-bound, Terry is in a coma, and Mike frequently falls into fugue states where he begins to change into a vampire, as it was revealed in the previous book that he is the son of Ubel Griswold while he possessed a man later revealed to be Terry. Mike continues to be stalked by Tow Truck Eddie as Val, Newton, and Crow attempt to reach out to a Pennsylvania researcher that specializes in the occult, Jonatha.
Meanwhile, Vic Wingate continues to prepare for the upcoming "Red Wave" that will bring back Griswold on Halloween Night, only for Ruger to eventually end up killing his wife Lois and transforming her into a living vampire. She manages to avoid the temptation for human blood, which keeps her soul inside of her body. Lois manages to save her son Mike from being killed by Vic and allows Mike to escape, only for Ruger to force blood inside of her, causing her soul to leave her body.
Crow manages to convince some of the police force that had assisted in the earlier manhunt for Ruger to help with the vampiric threat, culminating in a showdown at Griswold's house that kills one of them and almost kills Vic. During this time the Red Wave begins to take effect in the town, with all paths of escape blown up by bombs and most of the townspeople taken out by candy and beverages spiked with psychedelic drugs. Most of the town is killed and Crow, Val, Mike, and the remaining police officer return to Griswold's home to keep him from rising. They are assisted in their efforts by Terry, who has transformed into a werewolf, but not before much of their group is dead. The group does barely manage to kill Griswold as outside help comes in to take care of the remaining living citizens of the town.
==Bibliography==▼
==Reception==
Reception for the series was mixed to positive,<ref>{{cite web|last=Vincent|first=Bev|title=Onyx reviews: Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry|url=http://www.bevvincent.com/onyx/maberry-ghost.html|publisher=Onyx Reviews|accessdate=23 September 2012}}</ref> with [[Dread Central]] praising the first two books.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ghost Road Blues (Book)|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/ghost-road-blues-book|accessdate=23 September 2012|newspaper=Dread Central}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Dead Man's Song (Book)|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/dead-mans-song-book|publisher=Dread Central|accessdate=23 September 2012}}</ref> ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' called the book "horror on a grand scale... reminiscent of Stephen King’s heftier works."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6323025.html?q=Ghost+Road+Blues|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183511/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6323025.html?q=Ghost+Road+Blues|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-03-03|title=Monday's Reviews Today: A 'Ghost' Story and A Blind Man's Look at Life|date=2006-07-04|publisher=[[Publishers Weekly]]|accessdate=2008-05-31}} </ref>
==Real world elements==
▲Author Jonathan Maberry includes a number of real world elements in his novels, and this is most apparent in the final book of the trilogy, ''Bad Moon Rising''.
▲==Bibliography==
*{{cite book|last=Maberry|first=Jonathan|title=Ghost Road Blues|publisher=Pinnacle Books|date=June 2006|oclc=69186176|isbn=0-7860-1815-1|url=https://archive.org/details/ghostroadblues00mabe}}
*{{cite book|last=Maberry |first=Jonathan |title=Dead Man's Song|publisher=Pinnacle Books|date=July 2007|oclc=144571430|isbn=0-7860-1816-X}}
*{{cite book|last=Maberry|first=Jonathan|title=Bad Moon Rising|publisher=Pinnacle Books|date=May 2008|oclc=183263175|isbn=0-7860-1817-8|url=https://archive.org/details/badmoonrising00mabe}}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*[http://www.jonathanmaberry.com/ Jonathan Maberry Website]
[[Category:2006 American novels]]
[[Category:2007 American novels]]
[[Category:2008 American novels]]
[[Category:Literary trilogies]]
[[Category:Novels set in Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel winners]]
[[Category:Pinnacle Books books]]
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