And another John Saul novel tonight again! And it's one of his more supernatural stories titled "Hellfire'.
In the town of Westover and old mill sits in silence, as it always had, for over a hundred years, filled with dread secrets that have been locked from view. But the people still remember, and they whisper of a day when eleven innocent children lost their lives in a fire. A day when the mill's doors had been slammed shut for good.
But that will change as the last of the Sturgess family, who were once powerful, is about to open those doors once again, and to unleash an elemental fury. Behind those doors and deep inside the abandoned building, there waits a terrible vengeance.
So from his SF leaning books to something a bit more supernatural! "Hellfire" obviously draws a lot from both Gothic and ghost stories and setting to a modern setting, though in the 80s of course. There's some tense moments in this book along with the added bonus of a dark secret. I've read the old ghost and Gothic stories from the nineteenth century, like Shelley, Stoker, M.R James and many others, and for me this book is a real treat.
And this will also be the last John Saul novel that I will read until the next time around. Up next for me now is a novel by Dean koontz!
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