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Post by dem bones on Nov 7, 2007 21:44:10 GMT
Neville Steed - Hallowes Hell (Headline 1990) Blurb: Hallowes is having one hell of a summer this year ...
Thunderstorms constantly rage, cars disable their drivers with huge doses of static electricity and telephones ring unprompted — lurid conversations are carried along high technology cables to herald sudden and violent death. Since the building of the new telephone exchange on Starlings Meadow, nothing in the Devon town of Hallowes has been quite the same ...
Along the lane in Widow's Field preparations are being made for American evangelist Bobby Quick's gospel extravaganza. But an innocent children's game leaves a small boy with horrific stigmata, and his terrifying revelations speak of a malevolent evil poised to strike. As the crowd assembles, lightning cracks, thunder crashes fit to wake the dead and Bobby Quick's divine rallying call is answered by good and evil alike ...
Read HALLOWES' HELL and dread the telephone's every ring. There have been weird and horrific goings on in the peaceful Devon town of Hallowes ever since they built a new Telephone Exchange at Starlings Meadow. Localised thunderstorms and oddly glowing pylons are bad enough, but now snatches of telephone conversations are being replayed down the line to the very people who shouldn't be hearing them. As more sordid secrets come to light, there is a steep hike in the death rate. While all this is going down, sleazy Evangelical preacher Bobby Quick plots the media campaign for his conquest of England. For some reason, he's decided to open at Hallowes where the local Vicar and his flock are bending over backward to accommodate him Sue Pike, a reporter on the local newspaper, and Dr. John Stride gradually become convinced that there's something supernatural going down, something that has its genesis in a cover-up over how a number of American G.I.'s came to die in Devon during World War II. The pair are convinced it's all going to blow when Bobby Quick addresses his supporters ... There are several late 'eighties pop culture references: Bobby Quick's impression of England has been gleaned entirely from his repeated viewing of Upstairs, Downstairs. Pre-teens Mark and Sophie argue the merits of Michael Jackson's Bad album, specifically the track Underground Voices, and Sophie wonders how Bananara can still be going. The days gossip columnists obsess over Joan Collins and Neil Kinnock. The doomed Rick Rickett has a stash of porn mags secreted away - Mayfair, Men Only, Penthouse and something called Sextras - he calls up 'Busty Bloomers' Big One' after finding an ad for her in the classifieds.
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