AUTHOR
CAROL GOLEMBIEWSKI
"An original, entertaining horror fantasy" Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviews 2013 Best Indie Books List
The Projection Room:
Two from the Cubist Mist
Book 1
Years after an artist captures a macabre vision during World War I, his paintings unleash their remarkable powers onto a museum and all who dare to enter the Projection Room.
When fledgling artist Georges Bosque has a near-death experience on the battlefield during World War I, he believes he sees two men harvesting the souls of the dead and dying. Haunted by his macabre vision, Georges is determined to capture them in his sketchbook and, in his last days, on two large canvases. But despite Georges' pleas to destroy both paintings after his death, his family ignores his request, leaving the paintings with his aging widow.
Years later, his widow sells both paintings to a Milwaukee museum that is testing a new technology that projects images and allows patrons to experience art three dimensionally. But as the technology's inventor, Bruce Mallory, art director Geoffrey Cavanaugh, and his protégé Noelle Walker are realizing the benefits of the technology, two others, Ryan Barbieri, rebellious museum employee, and his friend, Michael Grout, decide to test the technology on Bosques' paintings. Unfortunately, just as the two young men discern that Georges did indeed capture something on the other side of the grave, their discovery causes dire consequences for anyone who enters the Projection Room.
In this gripping tale, two paintings hidden from the world for years unleash their powers onto an unsuspecting museum and a group of people completely unprepared for what awaits them.
"Green Eye Beneath" is the second installment in the Projection Room series, while I highly recommend the first book "Two From the Cubist Mist", "Green Eye Beneath" stands on its own very nicely.
Amazon Review
The Projection Room:
Green Eye Beneath
Book 2
Lucia Scardina, a beautiful student and artist model, is missing. After her desperate mother visits a medium who tells her Lucia fled to Chicago to hide from something and is now dead, she vows vengeance for those responsible.
Decades later, a young artist brings a mysterious painting by his grandfather, renowned portrait artist, Lawrence Taylor, to Dr. Bruce Mallory who has just completed testing of cutting-edge technology designed to help identify certain art techniques. When an extensive infrared scan is performed on the painting, it is discovered that a portrait of long-missing Lucia lies underneath. Even more perplexing yet is the fact that the painting seems to take on a life of its own as long-held secrets and desires from the past are revealed. As a high-level scientist develops an unhealthy obsession with what is transpiring within Mallory's projection room, Lucia waits to tell her story.
In this art history thriller, supernatural forces activated by a grieving mother long ago combine with a modern day scientist's manipulations to create havoc as a doctor and a young artist attempt to solve the mystery behind a painting.
"Wonderfully entertaining...kept me wondering what next."
Amazon Review
The Projection Room:
Our Brother's Keeper
Book 3
Bruce Mallory, a valuable scientist and engineer, wants nothing more than to get on with his life and leave the horrors and tragedies of the last two projection room incarnations behind him. However, when he is recruited to a secret military installation in Wyoming to develop a new device, the enigmatic Agent Baker darkens his door once more. Soon after, Bruce begins suffering from a bizarre and potentially fatal condition that raises many questions, especially for his wife, Noelle.
As Bruce does his best to recover from his mysterious ailment, he must contend with the cold-blooded, nefarious Dr. Casper Layton, who has constructed Bruce's latest version of the projection room with a unique interface. Also in his way is his estranged brother and acoustic expert, Aaron Mallory. If that is not enough, Bruce must also face nightmares from his past military service and determine who he can trust as he races to protect his wife, family, and his sanity, all while attempting to decipher the perplexing images revealed within the walls of the projection room.
In this continuing sci-fi thriller, a scientist must battle to survive after he is yet again conscripted into service by an evil genius on a quest for forbidden knowledge and technology.
IIT'S HERE!!!
The Projection Room
Forbidden Doors
Book 4
The strange and deadly event that occurred in the projection room at the Milwaukee Art Museum were almost a distant memory for Bruce Mallory, a talented scientist and inventor. Several years had passed and Bruce has settled into family life, but his contented existence is turned upside down when he is contacted by the new director of the museum, wanting the room reinstalled to its original site. Things become even more ominous when Agent Baker catches wind that the two stolen “Angels of Death,” paintings and their location has been uncovered as well.
A short time later, Bruce and the mysterious Agent Baker are immersed in a treacherous quest to recover Georges Bosque's "Angels of Death" paintings. Bruce, who understands the dark power behind the artwork, has vowed to destroy the priceless paintings if he unearths them first. Meanwhile, Bruce and Baker are aware they're being manipulated and guided on their mission by a power within the military/intelligence echelon.
Now, they must race to find the two paintings before the ruthless Casper Layton and his genetically modified experimental soldiers feed his desire for revenge and release the two Angels of Death into the land of the living.
