On the one hand, one of your standard types of Horror novel: Ghost or Bad Place, mostly, with just a little bit of Human Hubris thrown in, maybe a whiff of Ancient Evil woven in. On the other hand, it's well-executed, and the characters manage mostly to come across like people, even when some Old Thing is bending them back and forth like a paper clip. Pretty straightforward, if you know the genre, which can be fine if that's what you want. There's an interesting theme that family and/or tradition is, if not the problem here, then like the problem's mechanism of action, which is an interesting and kinda surprising take for a Horror novel that addresses tensions between rural folkways and urban science.
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Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
This is labeled as an epistolary novel, but that's not entirely right. There are entries that could not possibly have been written, fr...
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I read this book like thirty years ago (ack!) when I was in college, and I remembered liking it, and when my wife picked it as a classic-i...
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The cover text calls this something like "one of the most important novels" blah blah blah. It's not a novel, it's a disc...
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Not a novel, which ... well ... some of the events described in the book would stretch credulity in fiction. It's a book about the lie...
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