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Post by andydecker on Jun 6, 2021 11:56:38 GMT
William Schoell – Late at Night (Leisure Books, 1986, 382 pages)
BEDTIME STORY
They had gathered for a weekend on notorious Lammerty Island, a harsh outcropping of rock off the coast of Maine with an unsavory reputation for repeated violence and bloodshed. But none of the assembled guests believed rumors of an evil psychic force emanating from the accumulated atrocities of the past and awaiting the summons of an uncanny power …
Until they happened upon the mysterious book with a cast of characters exactly mirroring their group, and a plot that foretold their deaths by appalling and supernatural means.
They were all doomed – unless they could unmask and destroy the evil genius calling up the hellish apparitions that emerged …
LATE AT NIGHTThis is Schoell's fourth novel. The third one is here. It is a classical set-up, thank you, Mrs. Christie. Also it starts slow. 100 pages everybody is still alive. So this is not, say, Michael Slade's Ripper with its mad rollercoaster mayhem. |
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