WARM by Eric Kapitan – As the king of hell, he’ll be able to re-enter the human world at last—and then tear it down, piece by bloody piece.

Only a truly broken soul can be possessed by the ruler of hell. Unfortunately for Adam, every second of his life has molded him into the perfect host.

Adam is a killer. There’s no getting around that. The state doesn’t care that he was a child of abuse, that he was beaten near daily by a father who never wanted him. They don’t care that he truly wants to change, more than he’s ever wanted anything. For his crimes, Adam won’t see the sun until the day he’s dead and buried.

Deep below Adam’s restless heart, the king of hell has a new name, and he’s desperate to prove himself worthy. In his previous life, Timothy was a serial killer haunted by an all-consuming obsession with death and destruction. Now that he’s dead, he’s determined to rise through the ranks and earn a power like no other. As the king of hell, he’ll be able to re-enter the human world at last—and then tear it down, piece by bloody piece.

But for that, he needs a soul just as corrupt as he is. And Adam is ripe for the taking.

Warm by Eric Kapitan is a dark fairy tale of disturbing proportions, a gory tale of revenge that will keep readers up all night, haunted by the horrors within.

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Readers Speak

Eric Kapitan certainly makes things a hundredfold more graphic and intense with WARM.  Just dig that cover of burning hot skeletons from Hell surrounding Adam and his sister. While Burning Down Paradise alluded to some things, Kapitan jams them right in your face this time around.

Hence the warning at the beginning of the review. When you’ve taken over Hell and destroyed Heaven with the aim of making people pay for your cruddy life, values cease to exist. Battered brains aren’t going to reach the same kinds of happy endings that normal ones do. Very intense, with an open-ended conclusion that gives the book its name.

As far as a recommendation, I think it really comes down to your reading preferences. If you like gritty, realistic fiction that offers a view into the minds of serial killers, you are going to enjoy WARM. However, if you read speculative fiction and dark poetry to escape reality, as I do, you might want to give this selection a miss. All the gang-raping and killing overwhelmed me in this one. It is frightening indeed, just too real for this cowboy!

Kapitan’s previous book, Burning Down Paradise is written in a poetic format that softens the rough edges a bit and I still give it a hearty thumbs-up rating. Burning Down Paradise or WARM, which one will YOU choose? Make it easy on yourself and just get both to make your own comparisons! (Hellnotes)

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Warm is an interesting presentation of nature vs. nurture vs. mental illness vs. the supernatural. The psychology graduate in me thoroughly enjoyed the parallels in Timothy and Adam’s lives, and how wonderfully they were illustrated through the narrative, without feeling like the author was spoon feeding or hand-holding.

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I would definitely recommend this to readers who enjoy true crime thrillers and supernatural horrors. A word of warning to any of you who are sexual assault survivors, go in with your eyes and mind open. (Tropicalmary.com)

About the author

Eric Kapitan

Eric Kapitan fell in love with the horror genre at a young age. Binge watching Horror Movies such Halloween and Night of the Living Dead. It wasn’t long before Kapitan wanted to tell Horror stories of his own. Never afraid to push the boundaries, Kapitan believes Horror should be hard hitting and leave an impression.