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WELCOME BACK TO THE NIGHT by Elizabeth Massie
Hey, family reunions can be a drag. We all have them, and there's usually one or two in the family who can turn a supposedly happy event into a depressing day out...
But nothing is like the Lynch family reunion. When the Lynch family get back together - all hell breaks loose. Literally!
In fact, it's the beginning of a terrifying connection between three cousins and a deranged woman who had been a part of the family for only the briefest of times. The visions and secrets they encounter will not only threaten to destroy them...but also their whole town.
Massie is a terrific builder or slow-rising tension and horror. As shown in her previous novel SINEATER, she won't go for the gross-out factor on the first page. She will build atmosphere and dread until suddenly the horror explodes from the page. What horror reader could ask for more?
The slowly building tension seems to crawl into the reader and leaves you with a feeling of dread - even before anything horrible has happened. It's a device most horror authors of the "wham-bam, bleed you Mam" school could learn from.
The novel builds from page one, introducting the reader to a creepy montage of the terror that was, is, and will be one woman's life, viewed through the eyes of three cousins who had once known her.
Massie knows family and small-town silence, and uses this knowledge well for her small town in the Shenandoah Valley of VA. There's old family connections, twists and turns, secrets and evil lurking in every corner. Her pacing is masterful as she weaves four main story lines to a shattering conclusion.
As good as SINEATER and, in some parts, even surpases it. It's another Massie hard-to-put-down, well-worth-reading novel.
A great companion to SINEATER, you should buy them both!
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