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Brachman's Underworld

Name: Brachman's Underworld
Author: Vlad Vaslyn
ISBN: 9781463698911

by Vlad Vaslyn

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Overview

Delilah Brachman is not a nice person. Narrow-minded, casually racist, and emotionally hobbled, she has no time or sympathy for others unless it suits some selfish purpose. Then she dies and discovers that her soul is about to be extinguished forever, and that she only has six days to dodge her fate.

Delilah is thrown into a twisted reflection of the city she has always called home, and into the labyrinth of her own soul. She's arrived in Other Lowell, a place where dreams are abducted, a soul-devouring disease runs rampant, and demons lurk in the shadows. Newcomers are valuable here, and every manner of creature knows it. Forced to flee from a host of terrifying threats, Delilah is sucked into a power struggle between the idealist tyrant Honest Jack, and the cunning, childlike demon Noc. Delilah becomes a pawn in their deadly game of souls, and they will stop at nothing to realize their mad agendas. Meanwhile, she is forced to face her inner demons and the sins of her past. Will she win salvation, or will the person who she was in life prevail, ultimately dooming her?

Brachman's Underworld is an epic life-after-death tale that examines the powers of judgment, and asks the question: can there be personal growth without true enlightenment, or are the two inexorably linked? Fast-paced, deeply psychological, and rich with literary nuance, critics have called Brachman's Underworld the lovechild of Beetlejuice and Stephen King.

About the Author, Vlad Vaslyn

I snuck The Tommyknockers by Stephen King out of the library on my sister's library card when I was eleven years old. Despite the nightmares, I'd stay up all night reading it, partly because I was discovering that there was pleasure in terror, and partly because I was too scared to go to bed before the sun came up. It took me all summer and some of the fall to finish it, but when I did, I immediately dug up another King book. My love affair with the creepy, bizarre, and thought-provoking had officially begun.

I'm the author of Brachman's Underworld and Yorick, and I've appeared on sites such as Digital Journal, Yahoo! Shine, Indie Author News, and Strange Amusements. My next title, The Button, will be published in early 2013 by Rosstrum Publishing. My background as a newspaper correspondent and freelance writer has earned me dozens of publishing credits for local news articles as well.

I was raised in Groton, Massachusetts and now reside in Lowell, Massachusetts with my wife, Jordana. I received an Associates Degree in Journalism from Middlesex Community College, and after a few years of freelance writing, I decided to go back to school. I'm now a proud member of the National Honor Society at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where I'm studying History and English.

I'm a voracious reader, avid hiker, and can't watch enough documentaries. Seriously, I have a problem. I love games too. Board games, card games, strategy games, you name it, I'll play it. I'm a pretty eclectic reader, and don't limit myself to one genre. Some of my favorite authors in no particular order are: Stephen King, John Steinbeck, Richard Adams, William Golding, Isaac Asimov, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Robert Jordan.

The greatest sadness for me is that I'll never be able to write all the stories swirling through my head, or read all the masterpieces penned by all those wonderful authors out there.