This was well-written, literate, with characters that felt all too real-although be warned, it's also brutal and heartbreaking. Particularly, as with the reviewer below, I do find frustrating the kind of story where no one believes the protagonist. The tension between them and suspense becomes more and more unbearable to take as a reader, especially in those last hundred pages. Yet the core of the horror of this book is how easily isolated and vulnerable Amy is, to his authority as a parent since she's not yet of age, as he becomes increasingly controlling and prey to a zealous religious mindset that may be influenced by the dark forces surrounding them. She's a typical teenager, in ways I could imagine being maddening if I were her parent: body piercings, shaved head, plays loud music, smokes marijuana, pigsty of a room, sullen and uncommunicative her father has good reason for concern. is Campbells first supernatural novel since The House on Nazareth Hill. Nazareth Hill is where witches once danced and where an insane asylum once housed them after witch hunts went out of fashion-and there are strange happenings going on there-ones witnessed by several people, particularly a fifteen year old girl, Amy Priestly. Gale Academic OneFile includes Survey of four decades of Ramsey Campbell by S.T. This one took a while for me to get into, I almost stopped at fifty pages where nothing had happened yet but a truly boring tenants meeting However, the setting of modern Northern England as written by a British writer had an inherent fascination for me.
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