About R.C.
R.C. Davis is a novelist and poet who came to the Midwest of the USA with his family in his childhood years. While he grew up in the rolling hills that form the western banks of the Mississippi River, his interests in people, places, and genres remain cosmopolitan in scope. His love for writing and telling stories comes second only to family. R.C. loves music, dogs, hiking in nature, and the occasional cup of tea in a sidewalk café. R.C. crosses genres quite regularly when crafting worlds for his novels, but his true love is Gothic Horror.
Novels Available By R.C. Davis
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First loves are not all what they're cracked up to be. A gritty, down to earth, no punches pulled tragedy told with humor. A story about teen life in a small midwestern town where class differences, love, loss, and the pain they bring forth expose the reality of impending adulthood along with the realization that, sure, the older folks told you about growing up, they just never told you how much it was going to hurt. Based on actual events
An epic post apocalyptic coming of age tale. Climate change is in full swing and is everything anticipated, except... for the monsters. The warming of the waters bring forth biological aberrations from deep in the oceans finding governments ill prepared. Their failure to find a solution gives rise to a certain kind of hero known as a monster slayer whose sole purpose is trying to keep the beasts in check in order to establish some kind of a way of life similar to what was lost.
It's been twenty eight years since 'The Horror' laid waste to a small community in central Massachusetts and life has become comfortable again for the local folks, most with no clue how close to the end of world they had come. Now, it's 1955 and our protagonist finds himself in his second year of grad school, living the dream and just like his fellow students, has no clue as to what lies just over the horizon. The appearance of 'The Shadowman' on campus and the theft of the dreaded Necronomicon from under lock and key at the library produce a growing fear that 'what went around, was coming back around'
It's 1935 and our protagonist finds herself back home in her small central Massachusetts village after two years at Thayer College for Women. Her goal is to prove to the town folk that she is not the princess they believe her too be, by taking on the position of teacher in the village's one room schoolhouse. However she finds fate has other plans when she determines that her father's recent, secret, nuptials has unleased a dark, supernatural force upon their home. The presence of a trio of strange girls, her missing father, and some grisly killings, set her on the path of discovery to determine why her once peaceful village has fallen into chaos. Could it be true what they say, that the woman who now occupies her father's house, perched upon Nixie's Bluff, is actually the Queen of Air and Darkness and the master of the Unseelie Court?
Small town life is pretty much the same no matter where you go in the good ol’ US of A, and 1970 something Clarksburg, Iowa was no different. Everyone has a story to tell and rarely are they the same. The similarities come in the form of things that we all experience equally, openly, or sometimes; just hidden from view. Things like: conflict, prejudice, love, hate, joy, sadness, rejection, anger, disgust, misunderstanding, cruelty, betrayal, violence… you know them well. The old, rather outdated saying, “Children should be seen, not heard” still prevailed during this time period and the point of this collection is—for once—to hear what those children (actually teenagers in this case) have to say about their lives, loves, and losses, during a time in their existence when life is fast becoming a chaotic quagmire of issues unexpected.
Eighteen-year-old Tori Bradigan is a small-town boy in New England, just an average lad of Irish descent. He’s a well-liked kid, an intelligent kid, but bully someone in his presence and it’s Tori you’ll be dealing with. His best friend is Lelanya Low, a tall, slender girl with waist length raven black hair. They’ve been pals since their daycare days and could easily be considered inseparable. Tori knows he loves Lelanya, but not in the way he loves the local ‘Mean Girl’ Petal Weaver. That’s just pure lust. Tori’s world begins to fall apart when Lelanya announces that she will be accompanying her parents on a two week vacation to Eastern Europe. It’s the first summer since day-one that they won’t be spending together. Without Lelanya, Tori feels lost and adrift in the world. To make things worse, the town receives the news of a fatal plane crash in the Carpathian Mountains. Lelanya and her parents won’t be coming home. Tori doubts the pain will ever end, well… that is until one evening, weeks later, while hanging-out with his support group of friends at a popular gathering spot, he is shocked into wondering if serious grief can cause hallucinations or, if that dark figure standing in the shadows across the lot really was his beloved Lelanya.