ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In the search for authenticity, when creating my own apocalyptic cult, the following books provided a fascinating and encyclopaedic education, as well as much inspiration: The Pursuit of the Millennium by Norman Cohn; Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People by Tim Reiterman with John Jacobs; Charles Manson: Coming Down Fast by Simon Wells; Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer; and Koba the Dread by Martin Amis. The two that reserve a very special acknowledgement are Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgement by Timothy Wyllie (Edited by Adam Parfrey), and that masterpiece of true-crime writing, Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry, because it was the reading of these two compelling works that first lit my fuse.

Learning the basics of guerrilla documentary film-making was another task much enlivened and enlightened by The Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook by Chris Jones, Andrew Zinnes and Genevieve Jolliffe; Digital Film-Making by Mike Figgis; and the superb free online resource, Guide Book for Guerrilla Filmmakers at www.jamesarnett.com by James Arnett.

The website www.desertmuseumdigitallibrary.org was a terrific resource for imagining the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. And I want to raise my hat to those horror films that made the idea of a recorded testimony of half-seen terrors, by film-makers, so affecting: REC, The Blair Witch Project, and Paranormal Activity.

Many thanks to my agent John Jarrold, and editor, Julie Crisp, for their consultations and desk-side manners, and thank you again my readers: Anne Parry, Clive Nevill, James Marriott, and Hugh Simmons. Much appreciation goes out to Chloe Healy in publicity and Catherine Richards in editorial at Pan Macmillan.

Membership in my own temple of gratitude goes out to the many writers, book reviewers and bloggers who have offered kind words for such a creature of the literary shadows as I: Eric Browne at the Guardian, Alison Flood of the Sunday Times, David Moody, Jonathan Maberry, Joseph D’Lacey, Mark Charan Newton, Tim Lebbon, Stephen Volk, Mark Morris, Brian Showers, Peter Tennant, Black Static, SFX, Teddy Jamieson at the Sunday Herald, the News of the World, Graeme’s Fantasy Review, Jared at Pornokitsch, Fantasy Book Review, Spooky Reads, LEC Book Reviews, Black Abyss, Speculative Scotsman, Ginger Nuts of Horror, Read Horror, Iwillread blog, Hagelrat, and Kamvision, among others.

Finally, to the readers who took a chance on me, or who have stayed with me, I salute you.

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