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When 1980's party-boy, Billy Baxton, comes across a listing for the perfect fixer-upper in a neighborhood well outside his normal budget, he can't believe his luck may be changing for the better finally. Complete with an old swimming pool and a finished basement; housing an abandoned billiard table and an old Pac-Man machine-it has the potential to be the quintessential bachelor pad of which he's always dreamed. A chance to embark on the next chapter of his young life and escape his run-down apartment complex with smelly hallways, beer-saturated carpets, and paper-thin walls.

After moving in with his slacker roommate, Buddha, Billy slowly learns that the house harbors a morbid secret. One that immediately absorbs his insatiable curiosity. As he begins to dig deeper into the history of this house and previous owner, he is slowly drawn into a bizarre rabbit-hole of black magic, hidden rooms, portals, and beautiful, interdimensional creatures beyond worldly imagination.

Billy assumes he has discovered the key to a utopian realm, but eventually learns that there is a darkness that lurks beyond the fabric of this reality. A darkness that could potentially lead to the ultimate extinction-the extinction of mankind.

Beyond the Black Mirror

BY Matthew Pongratz

Beyond the Black Mirror jumps right into the story, keeping the reader on high alert from the beginning. Though it offers a glimpse into another world, it also reflects our own in the way people can change when tempted by something wonderful yet deadly. Pongratz does a wonderful job transporting the reader back a few decades as well as to a place alien to us altogether​. 

​                      ~ Cassidy Barker – author of Spoon Licker