The Bram Stoker Award-winning author continues his Harrow House series with this haunting novel. A new caretaker comes to Harrow House, and while making repairs, he unwittingly unleashes a horror into the tiny New York village.
Doug Clegg's new novel of Harrow House is a welcome addition to his own dark mythology. He digs deep into the minds, language, and culture of marginalized youth, of the nightmare of small towns and the way they isolate those who stray from the norm.
Without giving away any spoilers, this is a tale steeped in Grue and darkness, unapologetic as it digs beneath the skin, and moves quckly from invasion to paranoia, to apocalyptic destruction reminiscent of Stephen King's "Needful Things." In the end it is not Harrow House that is haunted, but the characters who gaze into the mirror at the truths of who they really are.
While some of the characters are less fully realized than in his other novels, notably his amazing novel "The Hour after Dark," "The Abandoned" continues to break convention in the haunted house tale.
I'm eagerly looking forward to his next novel, a significant departure into a medieval fantasy world populated by Vampires
--"The Priest of Blood."
i really enjoyed the excerts from the book i could hardly wait to see what was going to happen next it was just enough to tease me and keep me coming back for more...
