A phone call
leads Officer Franklin Butcher to the small-town church, where an old priest
had some dreadful concerns. What they were, we don't know.
At first,
you're not really too clear on the mystery. There's various characters that
enter the scene, but not much is happening. Something was off about a couple's
new house, especially with the plumber just disappearing. On top of that, there
are phantom images, a demon dog, and eyes in the sink? Something was going on...but
what?
The writing was pretty
good and I have to say that there were some interesting descriptions. For
example: "Its
ever-changing skin was textured in bees wings and bird legs. Dead feathers and
rotten scales. Black eyes that moved or didn't. Mouse bones wrapped in
squirrel’s tail." (58) Talk about a creep factor. Ewe! What the heck is
that? It was like Night of the Living
Dead or something.
It turns out that the plumber manifested into this thing, "not a functioning man gone
wrong," but a thing of pure evil. The house was obviously possessed.
This book has "creepy" written all over it, which
is great for horror fans; but the thing was that with all the calamity,
strangeness, and "ick" factor, it was kinda hard to get anything
straight. What was this thing with The Self? I didn't quite get that. But,
evidently, bodies were dying and being reincarnated into...things. This was just plain bloody horror.
My rating: 3 stars
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