By Gary A. Braunbeck
ISBN-10: 1587671093
ISBN-13: 9781587671098
From award-winning writer Gary A. Braunbeck comes Prodigal Blues, his first foray into non-supernatural horror.
After he reveals himself stranded at a truck cease in Missouri, Mark Sieber will get one of many largest shocks of his lifestyles while he acknowledges the face of a bit lady on a lacking poster as belonging to a similar little woman he observed just a couple of mins earlier than. having a look round for a few signal of her, he comes again to his desk within the eating place to discover the little sitting there, looking ahead to him.
"I'm sorry, mister," is all she turns out able to saying.
As the police and media start to converge at the truck cease, Mark retreats again to his resort room to name his spouse and allow her comprehend what's happening, simply to be taken hostage by way of a similar those who published the little lady. yet his abductors are little greater than kids themselves.
Ranging in a while from 12 to 19, Mark's abductors are within the technique of escaping from a sadistic pedophile identified to them in simple terms as "Grendel" a guy whose practices contain torture and mutilation in particular, mutilation of the face.
Mark's abductors have all been mutilated by means of Grendel who could be very shut in the back of them and want an individual with a "normal face" to assist them perform their plan for justice and returning home.
For the following couple of days, Mark will come to appreciate not just the inhuman horror that those teenagers have suffered, yet how they finally discovered to struggle again and the way they found that Grendel and his practices are on the middle of a really complicated community catering to people who tastes run towards the molestation and mutilation of children.
Prodigal Blues could be Braunbeck's such a lot suspenseful and emotionally robust paintings to this point; a narrative of ache, depravity, redemption, and in spite of everything the individual's compassion for their fellow people which could lead a few humans to discovering reserves of braveness and backbone they by no means concept they possessed.
Terrifying, suspenseful, occasionally unusually humorous, and finally relocating, Prodigal Blues is vital Braunbeck.
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The fool, he had scorned the final warning, scoffed at it. And there might not be another . . For the rest of the night she lay there just staring up at the ceiling, watching the latticed square of moonlight pale until finally it was replaced by the cold grey light of a mountain winter dawn. That scream—she could still hear it like a catchy tune that persistently sticks in the brain. She heard it again and again, a long-drawn-out cry of agony, the embodiment of every fear known to man or beast, the ultimate in terror.
Subsidence created potholes and cracked tarmacadam as though it was a subtle manoeuvre to return to its former surface of mud and stones. One shop, so insignificant among the grey stone cottages that it seemed to be trying to hide from strangers, and a church that would be undergoing structural repairs if ever the twenty-year-old restoration fund realised sufficient money. ' The Cat, tike everything else in Woodside had rejected progress. Picturesque inside and out it could have commanded trade from afar but Eli Lewis, its publican, was determined that that should not happen.
Peter watched them go, typical examples of motorbike hooligans. Hodre or Perrycroft—it was just the same. ' Janie was doing her best to scold Gavin but the impact of her remonstration was tempered by relief. She was trying hard not to cry. ' Gavin was trembling. 'Something's happened to him, I know it has. He's somewhere in thereV A shaking forefinger pointed to the forest. Even the morning sunlight could not dispel its aura of foreboding, its silent warning. ' Peter clutched at his shoulder and winced.
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