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Post by andydecker on Jun 5, 2021 13:05:38 GMT
William Schoell – Spawn of Hell (Leisure Books, 1984, 399 pages)
SUCH A PEACEFUL TOWN …
… Or so it appears when David Hammond and Anna Braddon arrive in Milbourne, Connecticut where the horribly mutilated body of Anna's brother has been discovered.
Nobody knows what caused Jeffrey's death, or the mysterious disappearance of other townspeople over a period of time. Only one man has the courage to seek the truth, and in a subterranean cavern beneath Milbourne's quit streets, he has come face to face with a horror beyond description. But he can't never share his dreadful knowledge, for the sight has driven him insane …
It is David who finally stumbles on the true nature of the evil creatures, and despite his fear, he knows it is up to him to destroy the things themselves, and the bizarre conspiracy against mankind of which they form a hideous part.
From 1984 to 1990 New Yorker William Schoell published some well received horror novels. Spawn of Hell – nowadays available again under its original intended title Things that go Bump in the Night – was his first novel. While his books always had an interesting premise, Schoell never became one of the big name writers of its time. Maybe it was the wrong publisher, maybe not enough luck. Maybe it was the unpredictability of his work in an age where other writers had more success in the US with concentrating on one topic.
Later Schoell wrote a lot of non-fiction and was a prominent figure in the Gay Rights Movement.
Most of his novels have been re-published as Kindle's.
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