It is no coincidence that Brigitte Aubert is called the “queen of the thriller” - in France she is the most titled writer working in this genre, the author of many exciting and ominous stories, such as “The Four Sons of Dr. March”, “Death of the Forest”, “Caribbean Requiem” , “Couturier of Death” and others. Her name ranks with such masters as Sebastien Japrisot and Jean Christophe Grange.

“Gloom Over Jacksonville” is one of her most shocking novels. Critics compare it to the best of Stephen King.

A series of brutal, inexplicable murders causes panic in a small American town. Very strange visions visit respectable townspeople. It is even rumored that a man who died many years ago was recently seen on the street.

The sequel to “Gloom Over Jacksonville” was the novel “The Bite of the Gloom.” Only a handful of people survived the massacre with the living dead. Federal agent Marvin Hayes is very concerned about the disappearance of one of the surviving teenagers and the unrelated events at the Albuquerque morgue. Will the nightmare happen again? Everything suggests that the living dead have decided to launch a new invasion. And it is obvious that their first task will be to finish off those who survived the previous attack... Therefore, the survivors must quickly get together.

Even in the most romantic and cruel scenes of these black novels, humor remains, because Brigitte Aubert never never misses an opportunity to parody the conventions of the genre. And this adds poignancy to the narrative, the tension of which does not subside until the very end.