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8/16/2018

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Hell Hole: The Official Screenplay
by Donald Firesmith and Leland Anderson
Genre: SciFi, Paranormal Horror

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When a huge hole opens up in the path of a controversial new pipeline, the oil company’s head of safety convinces her estranged husband to fly up to Alaska’s North Slope and investigate. But when geologist Jack Oswald rappels down into the mysterious pit, he discovers it is unlike anything he has ever seen. Giant wolf-like creatures attack the nearby protester camp, slaughtering both wildlife and people. When they kill protesters and even the oil company’s armed guards, a member of a secret society dedicated to defending humanity from demons has no choice but to reveal herself. The survivors soon learn there are worse monsters than hellhounds. To repair his broken marriage, Jack only needs to save his wife, defeat a devil, seal the hell hole, and put an end to Armageddon. What could possibly go wrong?

This movie script for the full-length feature film, Hell Hole, is based on Donald Firesmith's novel, Hell Holes: What Lurks Below.



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Hell Holes
Book 1: What Lurks Below

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It’s August in Alaska, and geology professor Jack Oswald prepares for the new school year. But when hundreds of huge holes mysteriously appear overnight in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, Jack receives an unexpected phone call. An oil company exec hires Jack to investigate, and he picks his climatologist wife and two of their graduate students as his team. Uncharacteristically, Jack also lets Aileen O’Shannon, a bewitchingly beautiful young photojournalist, talk him into coming along as their photographer. When they arrive in the remote oil town of Deadhorse, the exec and a biologist to protect them from wild animals join the team. Their task: to assess the risk of more holes opening under the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the wells and pipelines that feed it. But they discover a far worse danger lurks below. When it emerges, it threatens to shatter Jack’s unshakable faith in science. And destroy us all…


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​“Professor, take a look at this,” Mark said, squatting down and pointing at the nearest mound of dirt. He held his hand a few inches over it. “There are small holes, and I can feel gas escaping from them. That’s weird; it should be freezing, but it’s actually warm.” He leaned over and sniffed the air just above the hole. “Jesus, that reeks,” he cursed as he stood up and rubbed his eyes.
I reached down. There was a surprisingly large flow of gas coming out of the hole. I looked around at all of the other mounds of dirt dotting the ice on which we were standing. “Shit,” I exclaimed. “We’ve got to get the hell out of here.”
“Why?” he asked with a confused look on his face. “We just got here.”
“Prudhoe Bay natural gas is about three fourths methane. One eighth is ethane, propane, and other heavier hydrocarbons, while the remaining eighth is carbon dioxide. I’m not worried about the methane and ethane; they’re lighter than air and will drift up and out of the hole. But carbon dioxide, propane, and hydrogen sulfide are all heavier than air and build up in low areas.”
“Like the bottom of this hole,” Mark said as the nature of our danger dawned on him.
“Like the bottom of this hole,” I agreed.
Although I was breathing rapidly, it was becoming increasingly harder to catch my breath. Both were early signs of carbon dioxide poisoning. Meanwhile, my eyes were really watering, my nose was running, and my lungs were starting to burn. Hydrogen sulfide combined with the water on their moist surfaces to form hydrosulfuric acid. I had a dull headache and was becoming increasingly nauseated. Worse, the stench of sulfur had begun to disappear: a classic symptom of hydrogen sulfide poisoning. “We have to head back up and strap on oxygen tanks and full face respirators before we come back down.”
“Okay, Professor,” he replied, looking at me with concern. “You’re definitely not looking so good.”
Weak and increasingly clumsy, Mark had to help me reach the rope and secure it to my climbing harness. Then he said into his walkie-talkie, “Angela, there’s hydrogen sulfide and excessive carbon dioxide down here, and we need to get out of here right now. It’s made the professor sick, so I’m sending him up first.”
“Understood, Mark,” Angie replied, her voice indicating her concern. “Is he ready?”
“Yes, all hooked up,” Mark replied.
A second later, the rope began pulling me up. It sped faster and faster until I was practically running up the side of the hole. Soon, I was up to where the permafrost gave way to damp dirt. I slipped going over the boundary, and the rope dragged me face first over the short muddy slope. Bill helped me climb over the ridge of dirt surrounding the edge and unhooked my climbing harness.
Coughing and unable to catch my breath, I stumbled into Angie’s arms. The caustic gasses at the bottom of the pit had set off one of my ordinarily rare asthma attacks, leaving me gasping for air. I fumbled through my pockets, found my rescue inhaler, and had to give myself three puffs before my breathing became easier. Meanwhile, my eyes were still burning and watering so heavily that I heard rather than saw Bill throw the end of the rope back into the pit and use the winch to lower it rapidly into the hole. After helping me wipe the mud from my face, Angie wrapped me a bear hug, totally heedless of the muck she was transferring to her own face and clothes.
“It’s down,” Jill said, her voice amplified through our walkie-talkies.
Bill stopped the winch, and we waited for Mark to tell us when he was ready to come up.
“Okay, I’m ready,” Mark said. “Bring me up.”
Bill restarted the winch, and the rope began winding itself back around its spinning shaft.
Feeling stronger, I let go of Angie and turned back towards the pit so I could watch Mark being raised over the edge. It was at that moment, through eyes still somewhat blurry from tears, that I saw Kowalski. He was standing near the edge of the hole, a few feet downwind so that the smoke from his cigarette wouldn’t bother us. He took a final puff and carelessly flicked the still smoldering butt into the pit.
“Stop!” I croaked, my voice raspy and painful from coughing.
Kowalski turned towards me, and our eyes met. Unaware of what he’d just done, he was completely confused by the expression of horror on my face.
After seconds that seemed to stretch into eternity, the cigarette butt tumbled past Mark and eventually reached the depth where the concentration of methane and hydrogen sulfide reached explosive levels.


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Hell Holes
Book 2: Demons on the Dalton

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When hundreds of huge holes mysteriously appeared overnight in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, geologist Jack Oswald picked Angele Menendez, his climatologist wife, to determine if the record temperatures due to climate change was the cause. But the holes were not natural. They were unnatural portals for an invading army of demons. Together with Aileen O'Shannon, a 1,400-year-old sorceress demon-hunter, the three survivors of the research team sent to study the holes had only one chance: to flee down the dangerous Dalton Highway towards the relative safety of Fairbanks. However, the advancing horde of devils, imps, hellhounds, and gargoyles will stop at nothing to prevent their prey from escaping. It is a 350-mile race with simple rules. Win and live; lose and die...


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A geek by day, Donald Firesmith works as a system and software engineer helping the US Government acquire large, complex software-intensive systems. In this guise, he has authored seven technical books, written numerous software- and system-related articles and papers, and spoken at more conferences than he can possibly remember. He's also proud to have been named a Distinguished Engineer by the Association of Computing Machinery, although his pride is tempered somewhat by his fear that the term "distinguished" makes him sound like a graybeard academic rather than an active engineer whose beard is still slightly more red than gray.

By night and on weekends, his alter ego writes modern paranormal fantasy, apocalyptic science fiction, action and adventure novels and relaxes by handcrafting magic wands from various magical woods and mystical gemstones. His first foray into fiction is the book Magical Wands: A Cornucopia of Wand Lore written under the pen name Wolfrick Ignatius Feuerschmied. He lives in Crafton, Pennsylvania with his wife Becky, and his son Dane, and varying numbers of dogs, cats, and birds.



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The idea for this book series came to me when I first heard of the discovery of several large mysterious holes in the permafrost of the Yamal Peninsula in Northern Siberia in mid-July of 2014. By the summer of 2015, some 20 to 30 such holes had been spotted. As in the book, scientists have measured high levels of methane gas in the holes. The holes are mysterious because of their large size, their existence in frozen ground (permafrost), their steep cylindrical shapes, and the fact that the contents of the holes is nowhere to be found.
There is no scientific consensus as to their cause. Scientific explanations have ranged from the explosive release of methane from buried methane hydrate ice to the melting of pingos (i.e., large dirt-covered plugs of ice) due to rising temperatures from Global Climate Change. Other less-believable proposed explanations have included meteor strikes and alien excavations. The best current scientific explanation is that as warming temperatures melt the ice in pingos, the pressure on the underlying methane hydrate ice decreases, causing methane explosions that blow out the soil that once topped the pingos. The holes are essentially the voids left behind once the pingo’s ice has melted.
The Hell Holes series is based on the following scenario: (1) thousands of such holes begin to show up around the entire Arctic including Alaska, (2) these holes were even larger than the initial ones in Siberia, and (3) there really is an “alien” connection with the holes.
For more information on the real Siberian holes, see:
  • Russian documentary on YouTube) The Permafrost Mystery: Scientists Explore Giant Yamal Sinkhole
  • EarthSky Magazine article) New Explanation for Siberia’s Mystery Craters


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37 Comments
shelly peterson
8/16/2018 03:22:00 am

This sounds really good.

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James Robert
8/16/2018 04:12:56 am

Thank you for the book description and the opportunity to learn about another great book. I appreciate the giveaway as well.

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Janet W.
8/16/2018 06:17:50 am

Sounds like such an entertaining and interesting read! I can't wait to read this!!

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Rita Wray
8/16/2018 12:03:26 pm

I liked the excerpt.

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Calvin
8/16/2018 12:10:10 pm

Nice scary explorations

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Eric V.
8/16/2018 03:04:52 pm

Sounds amazing! I'm definitely going to read this!

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wendy hutton
8/16/2018 03:25:32 pm

the book sounds awesome thanks

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Debbie P
8/16/2018 03:32:51 pm

I can't wait to read this. It sounds really good.

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Victoria
8/16/2018 05:39:23 pm

I enjoyed the excerpt, thanks for sharing!

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Dale Wilken
8/16/2018 06:20:27 pm

Sounds great.

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Corey Hutton
8/16/2018 09:59:07 pm

Good luck with the book and Thanks for the giveaway.

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Kelly Nicholson
8/17/2018 04:31:55 am

What do you think of the books or the covers?

i just would not want to be standing there

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Serge B
8/18/2018 10:13:45 am

I enjoyed the cover

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Sherry
8/18/2018 12:59:37 pm

I love the cover and think this will be a good book.

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Mood Reader
8/19/2018 02:10:04 pm

They sound like interesting reads. Cool covers too! :)

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Wendy Jensen
8/19/2018 11:37:10 pm

Great looking book cover.

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marisela zuniga
8/21/2018 11:17:18 pm

great excerpt, this sounds really good

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Maria
8/24/2018 08:46:47 pm

Cover looks awesome, how did you decided on what you want to put on it?

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heather
8/25/2018 03:22:16 pm

Sounds like a good one.

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lynn clayton
8/25/2018 09:28:59 pm

looks like a great read with a nice cover

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Dave Gibb
8/25/2018 09:36:09 pm

love the cover

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Doreen
8/26/2018 04:21:15 pm

The cover is nice.

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Nikki
8/26/2018 06:27:58 pm

I like the covers!

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aaron reck
8/30/2018 02:32:34 pm

Looks like the news lately. It's been hot as hades.

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Ann Fantom
8/31/2018 09:12:13 pm

I like the cover. Very interesting!

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patty
8/31/2018 11:48:09 pm

Stunning Cover !

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Kim BookJunkie
9/2/2018 06:06:55 pm

I am really, really looking forward to reading this book!!!

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jennifer stapp
9/5/2018 09:33:22 am

oh man this series sounds like a spectacular collection! I love reading about geology but with that couldn't-be-possible (or could it?) twist! Really excited for this!!

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Heather D
9/6/2018 10:48:07 am

Looks like an interesting series.

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Lisa F.
9/8/2018 10:41:06 am

This author seems very cool. His daytime and nighttime jobs, and the top hat in his pic!

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tiago Rosado
9/9/2018 12:29:07 pm

What do you think of the books or the covers?


the covers look very cool,inspiring some dread but not giving much away

thx

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Sarah L
9/9/2018 04:39:45 pm

Looks like an interesting book.
Thanks for the contest. 

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Shirley Emitt
9/10/2018 02:35:18 am

Like the covers, books sound good.

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Danny
9/11/2018 04:03:07 pm

I like the cover. Really sells adventure :)

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Dorothy Boucher
9/12/2018 11:53:09 pm

I am loving the cover and love how it starts to bring the reader in.
@tisonlyme143

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Daniel M
9/13/2018 07:15:31 pm

really like the cover

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Jerry Marquardt
9/16/2018 11:28:01 pm

The book cover is most excellent. I would like to give thanks for all your really great writings, including Hell Hole, and wishing the best in keeping up the good work in the future.

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