LEWISTON — Maine author Mark LaFlamme’s latest book, “Delirium Tremens,” is a tale of alcoholism haunted by enough ghosts to fill a saloon.

LaFlamme’s latest thriller gives readers an uncomfortable, drinker’s-eye view of the misery, delivering horror after horror much like the disease itself.

Stephen Boone has a problem. If he doesn’t stop drinking, he will die. But for this washed-up writer, putting down the bottle is not so simple. Along with the sweats and shakes of alcohol withdrawal, Boone sees dead people – ghastly images of the future where men, women and children are about to die horribly.

These victims of disease, misadventure and murder appear at his sick bed — old women with twisted necks, infants dying in their cribs, strangers swinging at the end of ropes.

Boone is a man who knows too much. In the delirium of alcohol, a woman and child have come to him, the victims of a fiendish act. Boone sees them, feels their agony and understands the horrific details of their deaths. And that secret knowledge has made him a suspect in the killings that have rattled a small Maine city.

To prove his innocence, Boone will have to put the booze down for good and face the grisly specters of sobriety.

“An unusually serious work from this wildly creative, entertaining, and provocative writer,” author Meredith Kendall wrote. “Get ready to get your heart broken, this one’s for real.”

“Delirium Tremens” is available in Kindle and other ebook formats. It is also available in paperback at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other booksellers.

LaFlamme, a reporter and columnist at the Sun Journal, has also written novels “The Pink Room,” “Vegetation,” “Asterisk: Red Sox 2089” and “Dirt: An American Campaign,” plus the short story collection “Box of Lies.” For more information, visit www.marklaflamme.com.