![]() There are child suicides (by drowning), outbreaks of insanity. ![]() There's a series of savage slash-murders. There's a hushed-up accident at a research facility-and a ""thinking cloud"" of DRG-16 (a bio-warfare gas) floats out, causing several citizens to slowly, revoltingly liquefy. In posh little Hampstead, Ct., in May 1980, assorted creepy things are happening. Still, through about the first half of the excessive 500+ pages here, Straub's cross-cutting techniques and appealing characterizations do manage to stir up a curious, eerie mixture. ![]() Like many another genre novelist who hasn't been able to come up with a fresh twist, occult/horror-man Straub has instead thrown a little bit of everything into this massive mess of a book: a haunted town, family curses, demonic possession, duels with Satan, telepathy, clairvoyance, ghosts, bats, plague, murder, suicide, and plenty of dead birds. ![]()
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