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Authors: John Rickards
The Darkness Inside: Writer's Cut (38 page)
Incidentally, elements of Holly’s captivity are based on real events. Not the Fritzl case, which broke a year after this book fell out of Penguin’s warehouse into a large puddle, but an earlier one from the 70s, where a hitchhiking 20-year-old was abducted by a man and his wife and lived as a slave for years. The ‘contract’, the coffin-like container, the degree of psychological control over the girl in question, those things came from an actual real-world crime. (There were differences; you can read up on the case of “Carol Smith” online if you’re so inclined.) Horrible stuff.
So there you have it. I hope you’ve enjoyed
The Darkness Inside
, and that you will check/have checked out the other stories in the new Rourke series. Whether you liked the book or hated it, you can, as always, find me on Twitter as
- John R., December 2012.
Copyright & Credits
Copyright John Rickards 2012.
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Also By The Author
Writing as John Rickards:
The Touch Of Ghosts: Writer’s Cut
Burial Ground: Writer’s Cut (coming soon)
The Desperate, The Dying, And The Damned (coming soon)
Writing as Sean Cregan:
Day Zero
Murder Park
All You Leave Behind
The Levels
The Razor Gate
Hardboiled Jesus (short story)
Wishes (short stories)
The Unpublishable (short stories)
