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The Day of the Door

Ghoulish Bks. Apr. 2024. 300p. ISBN 9781943720965. pap. $16.95. HORROR
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The worst day of Nate’s life happened when he was 16 and his mother took his screaming older brother Sean behind a door in their home, from which Sean never emerged again. Nate’s mother claimed she was saving them from a demon, but Nate and his two sisters have never recovered from that day. Now after years of estrangement from their manipulative mother, Nate’s sisters want him to help them confront her, by returning to the home with the crew of a paranormal TV show, to uncover the truth. Except the truth might be more terrifying than everyone involved could have imagined. As the story is told from Nate’s perspective, readers will be sympathetic to this obviously flawed and damaged man and will root for him to confront his demons. Let the book’s excellently rendered, unnerving cover serve as a harbinger of the real nightmares that follow within.
VERDICT Hightower’s (Silent Key) story, dripping with visceral dread from every corner, will draw in fans of intense psychological horror such as A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay, Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones, and Graveyard of Lost Children by Katrina Monroe.
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