One of the best works by the teacher and idol of Stephen King — the well-known American writer John Farris — is the edge-of-your-seat horror novel “When Michael Calls.”
A gripping detective plot unfolds around a chain of mysterious deaths, each preceded by a phone call from “the other side.” But behind the apparent simplicity of this incredible connection between the supernatural and the real are completely non-obvious causes of the events, which the reader will have to discover together with the retired investigator D. Brightlow and the sheriff’s aide I. Mils.