“The
Seeds of Cain is an unnerving voyage into the darkness that man would
bring back to life for power. A horrifying villain poisons five teenage
boys and turns them into monsters, starting a harrowing, unsettling,
and horrifying journey of wrath and destruction across four continents.
You will put this on the shelves next to Goethe, Marlow, Poe, Stoker
and Meyrink! Don’t start this after midnight has become so cliché!
Start Brian Callaghan’s The Seeds
of Cain at the stroke of midnight and
lose yourself in Brian’s horrifyingly epic adventure!”
—Hannah
Humphreys, Manager, Ripley’s Believe It or Not
“The Seeds of Cain blew me
away! The four heroes and the psychology
that drives them to save man, the evil Paul David Devon and what drives
him to hate man, even the five creatures, whose minds have been made
numb by the seed that Paul David Devon has given them, keep the reader
turning pages long after the last teabag has been used, the last
biscuit eaten, and the last spoonful of ice cream licked clean from the
bottom of its annoying cardboard encasement—all three being comforts to
me when I am feeling unsettled! A wonderfully horrifying epic adventure
that combines Czech, Jewish, and Eastern European mythology with modern
day settings! Congrats Brian—one hell of a read!”
—Joanna McAuley,
Editor, Portal Magazine
“Since the end of communism, we Czechs have been inundated with books
by foreigners that tell us the Gustav Meyrink Golem story with only the
slightest of changes, making us Czechs ask, why don't we just buy the
original . . . but Brian Callaghan's Golem tale, The Seeds of Cain,
delivers a fresh new spin, adding Judeo, Christian and Eastern European
aspects and mythology to the story, Brian even bringing the monster to
new locales, giving it new powers, and giving it a new past, yet
leaving the Golem with the same wrath-like destruction that it always
had! A great dark-urban fantasy horror-tale! A wonderful edition to any
book collection that contains the names Meyrink, Shelley and
Stoker!!!!!!!”
— Katerina Vimmerova, Reviewer, FilmBook
“I loved it! The Seeds of Cain
is a book worth reading—twice. Part
horror, thriller, dark fantasy and epic, I couldn’t put it down!
Excellent use of both the Biblical Cain and Abel story and the Prague
Golem legend! And as well, some great, dark and haunted characters!
When all this is combined with modern settings: EXPLOSIVE!!!!! Mister
Callaghan, Sir, I wish to shake your hand!”
—Frank Costanza, Editor-in-Chief, The South Hampton Press
“Wow! The Seeds of Cain is
a blow-you-away, nonstop action-adventure
novel! Four characters -- a writer who knows his heart belongs
elsewhere, an archaeologist who's foreseen his own death, a
psychiatrist who thinks her life has amounted to nothing, and a con
who's been trying his damndest to run from his past -- are sent on a
quest to prevent the destruction of three of the world's most important
cities. Battles rage! Cities explode! And somewhere in amongst it all,
an ancient weapon used by the followers of Cain to prevent the rise of
civilization comes back to haunt mankind! It could be a blockbuster
video game, it should be a blockbuster movie, but it's definitely a
blockbuster novel! I want all three to come out at once -- it's that
good!”
—Sam Beckwith, Journalist, Prague TV
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