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Halloween spooky spectacular

October 28th, 2009 Gregg - Sequoya

Want to read a scary book?  How would it be if it was set in small town Maine?  Sounds familiar?  Well you’re wrong, it’s not this guy. It’s a couple of books written by someone relatively new to the horror scene, Sarah Langan.

The Keeper & The Missing both take place in the same area in Maine.  In The Keeper, we are introduced to the town of Bedford, Maine.  Things are not well there.  The paper mill has closed down and the rain is never-ending.  The town is also haunted by Susan Marley, once a good looking popular girl, now a shell of her former self. Susan wanders the streets of Bedford and also enters the dreams of the locals, with portents of doom.  The Missing is a sort of sequel to The Keeper.  The town of Corpus Christi was a neighboring town to Bedford.  The awful thing that happened in Bedford, is now infecting Corpus Christi.

Sarah Langan is great at creating a sense of menance and foreboding in her books.  You get that tingling in the back of your spine as you read.   If  you are only an occasional reader of horror titles, then these are the two you should read this year.  If you are a fan of the genre, then you probably have already read them, but if you haven’t, do so now.

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