Jason's wife has left him, for her best friend. In his
first rush of freedom, Jason goes out and gets a tattoo --
one thing that his wife was dead set against. He met the
tattoo artist at a bar the first night his wife left him and
on a whim decided to get the tattoo. The tattoo artist is a
little strange and his shop is definitely off the beaten
path, but his art work is extraordinary and the price can't
be beat. Unfortunately, Jason didn't read the small print
on the contract he signed before getting his tattoo.
Jason met Mitch the same night he got the tattoo. She is a
fun-loving, hairdresser who shares his love of horror
stories and people watching. Mitch is drawn to Jason's
Griffin tattoo and shows him a similar tattoo she has on her
side.
Jason soon starts to feel there is something wrong with his
tattoo -- he has horrible pains in his arm, is plagued with
haunting nightmares, and small animals in his neighborhood
start turning up dead. Then one night, he wakes up, and
finds that his tattoo is missing. Determined to get to the
bottom of what is going on with his tattoo, Jason stays up
the next night and watches in horror as his tattoo comes to
life and pulls itself free from his arm. To Jason's dismay,
the Griffin he had tattooed on his arm is very much alive
and it's hungry, it's hunting those that are close to him.
INK is a wonderfully written horror novel that pulls you in
from the very beginning and doesn't let go until the very
last word. Damien Walters is a master storyteller! I was
absolutely spellbound; I could not put this book down. The
descriptions of the different rooms created by Iblis at
Shakespeare Street were so detailed and amazing, I could
actually smell the smoke, feel the dust in the air. I am
looking forward to more books my Ms. Walters. I definitely
recommend you add this to your to be read list.
Distraught after his domineering wife, Shelley, leaves him
for her best friend, Jason Harford meets an unnerving
stranger in a bar who offers to ink him a tattoo. Only after
a long, bloody ordeal does Jason realize what the reader
knew from the beginning: that the griffin tattooed on his
arm is terrifyingly alive and getting rid of it could prove
utterly hellish. Until then, the hero of Grintalis’s
disappointing debut remains, all too conveniently for the
plot, passive and oblivious to his problems. The stock
characters otherwise populating the novel include, in
addition to the shrewish Shelley, Jason’s sexist best
friend, Brian; his strong, kind father; and his beautiful,
understanding new girlfriend, Mitch. The pace picks up near
the end, only for Jason’s long-delayed transformation into
alpha male to occur in unintentionally hilarious fashion,
undermining any sense of gravitas before the gruesome, lurid
climax.
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