When Alex Wilson’s estranged uncle unexpectedly dies, Alex realizes he would do just about anything to make peace with the man who had raised him as his own.
He’d even reach out to the dead.
But things more dangerous than ghosts haunt his uncle’s broken down trailer and the nearly abandoned one-gas-station town of Fair Hill just beyond. Things that can devour the living and the dead alike, and are all too ready to answer his call.
Some parts of our past never really leave us. There are things that don’t know how to die.
These things linger.
Dark bleatings, my fabulous tribe! I’m taking a look at this novel from Dan Franklin today, who I’m a fan of. I really enjoy his writing style, I think he’s excellent when it comes to flawed characters that you want to get behind, and he’s great when it comes to setting up his endings. I’m happy to report that he did not disappoint me with this newest offering!
Alex lives with his Uncle Matty in an impoverished town, and he tries to attach himself to a girl from school called Lacey, who experiments with some pretty dark occult stuff. They attempt to summon Lacey’s dead brother but they’re interrupted before they can make anything happen. Fast forward to Alex as an adult with a partner, Raychel, and a baby on the way, and we re-join him as he returns home, following his Uncle’s death. Returning to his childhood trailer isn’t the most fun for him – the town is tiny, down on its luck, and has a grim history. Consumed by grief and reminded of his childhood shenanigans with Lacey, he tries to summon Uncle Matty.
It seems that nothing happened, but eventually, even Raychel is frightened by what seems to be a presence, and so Alex seeks the help of a medium, and even goes to see Lacey, hoping for some answers. And that, my dear tribe, is as far as I want to go in telling you the plot, because from there, things get extremely twisted, dark, and unexpected. So I must stop, lest spoilers slip out.
This story is extremely dark from the get-go, and continues to get darker, and just keeps hitting us with unexpected horrors. I was surprised several times, which isn’t the norm for me, truthfully. I yelled and swore at this book a number of times, absolutely shocked by where Franklin was willing to take it.
It was glorious.
I’d recommend it to general horror fans. I read this during my month of May madness, when I read a total of 63 books, and I’d put this one in the Top 10 of those for sure. If you’d like to get a copy or check out the author, I’ve popped some links below for you:
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