Kilborn's modern take on the gothic horror story is a mess. The concept of the story is promising: the survivors of horrors in his other book are gathered to a haunted house for a study on fear, something they are all intimately acquainted with. But the clunky prose, perfunctory story-telling, an...
This book was "Black Hawk Down" meets Stephen King. You know how in many King books he spends 3/4's of a book building up a town and the tension and then has it all explode in the last 1/4? Well, this book was all explosion. From start to finish, horror thriller all the way baby.Did it work? Mos...
Okay, okay, it wasn't great book. It was . . . okay and contained all the literary and intellectual content that one would expect with a title like "Afraid". Certainly not the finest piece of literature that I've ever read. Perhaps, not exactly what I was expecting. But, it did move along and I d...