This is the MOST ORIGINAL of the novels by Robert McCammon, the “golden master of the dark genre.” This is a “horror novel” LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER READ. It is Ray Bradbury’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes” told in the genre of Stephen King’s “The Body.” It is the world of Darkness and Horror through the eyes of a boy from a small, sleepy Southern town. A boy who is given the power to see and notice SOMETHING invisible and unknown to adults. It is “BOY'S LIFE” on the razor’s edge of NIGHTMARE. The life of dreams becoming reality, and reality resembling terrible dreams…
Robert McCammon. Officially, the “number two man” in classic American horror literature after Stephen King. Yet many critics place McCammon (though commercially less successful than the “king of horror,” of course) above Stephen King…
Why? Perhaps because the power of suspense in this writer’s works is second to none?
Or because McCammon plays with the “dark genres” with the true taste of the American South?