HOUSTON, TX - Pastor and televangelist Joel Osteen is a bestselling author of positive, motivational works, but the prosperity gospel preacher is branching out with a new horror novel titled Every Day A Friday The 13th , a spin-off of his popular Every Day A Friday , his publisher announced Friday.

The novel centers around a small New England town whose inhabitants are forced to confront a sinister evil brewing as a masked assailant begins leaving copies of Joel Osteen books in people's mailboxes. The 666-page work is filled with rich characters confronted with frightening scenes, like one set piece in which the protagonist accidentally thinks a negative thought and is plunged into a harrowing sequence of events because of his lack of faith.

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