Everything the Darkness Eats
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A haunting and horror-filled tale of loneliness, trauma and spiritual yearning from the award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes.
An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are conjured and when bigotry is left unrestrained. After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving widower with a grim secret is drawn into a dangerous ritual of dark magic by a powerful and mysterious older gentleman named Heart Crowley. Meanwhile, a member of local law enforcement tasked with uncovering the culprit responsible for the bizarre disappearances soon begins to learn of a current of unbridled hatred simmering beneath the guise of the town's idyllic community—a hatred that will eventually burst and forever change the lives of those who once found peace in the quiet town of Henley's Edge.
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Larocca (We Can Never Leave This Place) hinges the plot of his disappointing latest on the farfetched premise that God is a glowing orb of energy sequestered in the basement of a Connecticut mansion, waiting for Heart Crowley, the mansion's devious owner, to return it to Heaven. At least that's what Crowley tells grieving widower Ghost Everling. Crowley has been abducting locals from the town of Henley's Edge to act as sacrifices in this obscure scheme to no avail, but believes that in skeptical Ghost he's found the perfect supplicant. Larocca's tale unfolds with the promise of a classic small-town horror story, but it frequently bogs down in purple prose: one character walks out of the room on another, "abandoning him the way napalm-scented civilians would single-file march from their burning homelands, forming a glorious diaspora"; another despairs to find "her mind, once a lavish rose bed, now reduced to an emptying gutter that swine wouldn't even consider drinking from." Combined with a (literal) deus ex machina ending, this book is strictly for the author's most dedicated fans.
