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Post by erebus on Mar 8, 2013 12:43:32 GMT
Right off the back of FIEND, THE CAMP and MANIA, Guy N Smith gave us this little gem. And what a good little book it is too. We begin with mild mannered Ed Cain, bank manager of his local branch. All is going well until he is coming home from work one evening and he hits a bad traffic jam, worse luck he is stuck behind a huge Cement Mixer which is on its way to the local village right next to where he lives. Long story short the said mixer hits a bump and in the mayhem overturns and crushes Ed in his Volvo. Much to the delight of curtain twitching old bat Mrs Pringle who hates anyone and everyone ...except her cat Pretty. He survives ..only just, whilst in a coma though an evil force enters his body. And when Ed is back on his feet he isn't the man he once was. His wife is the first to experience this. One afternoon whist Judy is making the tuna salad for tea she is summoned to the lounge. There spread eagled in the nude and shaking his vinegar bottle he demands her to strip, he violently rapes her, almost strangling her in the process. Cling the family dog intervenes and saves the day. The dog senses his masters change. The kids are constantly bullied, and he belts his Older son in the mouth just for defending his younger sister whom Ed has told off for playing her piano. All is not well at the Cain household. Meanwhile at work things are just as testy. He leers over his young secretary and has a heated exchange with a colleague. The same colleague is depatched by Ed in a bizarre way on a golf course a few days on. The neighbour next door Reverend Holland is also getting Eds back up. Last summer he was seen oogling at a naked Judy sun bathing in the back yard. A large hedge is now causing some friction. We have already established Holland is a pervert in previous chapters so if ever a character in a book was victim fodder he is it. Speaking of which old Biddy Mrs Pringle is out for vengeance . Adamant Cling the dog has bitten he Precious pussy she has it out with Ed. And then later the Holland. Prior to this though Ed has already killed Suzy the prostitute ( one of the Revs best punters ) and forced a mini driver off the road to his doom. His disturbed mind is getting worse. After the exchange with Mrs Pringle, poor Cling the dog succumbs to a violent pitchforking in the garage. But its the old bag he has set his sights on next. Already fantasising of her naked whilst he stomps up and down on her Ed is keen to carry through his agendas......
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Post by erebus on Mar 11, 2013 11:16:21 GMT
....Meanwhile a horrified Judy has found the dogs corpse in the flowerbed, Ed manages to concoct a story of a car accident outside the gate, she is unconvinced. Friendly Dr Graham Lawson pops in. Judy has aired her concerns previously, so he stops by to check on Ed. He notices an immediate difference in the man and decides the only way to get into the mans psyche is a good old trip fishing the following day. Later the good Doc does some research and is shocked to fathom that Ed died on the operating table just after vicious killer and robber Blake Barrett did prior after he shot himself in the face after a siege. The doc makes a stab and reckons Barrett is using Ed as his host. Amazing work there Doc. He witnesses first hand Ed's unbalanced mind at the fishing day. Ed pops fish eyes with hooks and smashes the bodies to pulp. The doc intervenes and ends up plunging into the foamy waters. He drowns. Eds is pissed off because he didn't get to do the job himself. Meanwhile Pretty the pussycat is dying of oldage. Old batty Norma still things its because of a dog bite Cling inflicted. She manufactures a rat poison butty and demands the Reverend Holland next door pushes through the hedge for the dog to eat. Back home satisfied she commends herself and gives poor old Pretty a drink of milk. In the books most outrageous moment she accidently smashes the glass bottle and slashes her wrists !!!! Yes really ! Mrs Pringle dies a ridiculous death, whilst Pretty gently passes away in his sleep that night.
Eds himself suffers terrible dreams and eventually realises he is possessed by another. He visits Phil Craddock the neuro surgeon who saved him, no help there he breaks into his home and finds out about Blake Barrett and what he did/was. After the burglary he returns home to find his teenage son has brought his girlfriend back. Ed has been perving on her for a while and when the opportunity to drive her home arises he jumps at the chance. Tracey gets a narrow escape when her Dad saves the day. She'll get hers later.
Reverned Holland is forced to perform an excorcism. It goes wrong, especially for him he ends up strangled. Ed now is on the run. Tracey gets her just deserts on a train platform. As does a pig farmer who catches Ed/Blake stealing his shotgun. The pigs get more than extra helpings that day. The books concludes with Blake fully in control as he takes to Eds bank, steals a sum of cash and then legs it home to again hold a siege in Ed and Judy's family home.
The Unseen is a decent book. 268 pages which although bigger than some of his stuff is about the range for the earlier mentioned published novels he wrote around this time. It to me has a big resemblance to a later book he wrote THE RESURRECTED . That concerns a wife dying and returning with an evil within her. Although that book is not told through her but from the husband who is suffering the consequences.
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