Forest Ghost
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A bone-chilling tale of terror and suspense from a "master of modern horror" (Library Journal).
Modern-day America. Fifteen Boy Scouts and their seven adult leaders are found to have committed suicide in the forest of a scout reservation. One of the dead boys is a friend of Sparky Wallace, whose father Jack runs a Polish restaurant in Chicago. Drawn into investigating the suicides, Jack discovers a connection with his own grandfather, who killed himself in the Kampinos Forest in Poland when he was fighting the Nazis in World War II.
Together, Jack and Sparky travel to Poland to unlock the terrifying mystery of what really makes people panic in the forest. But before they can do so, they have to experience panic for themselves, and reach the very brink of madness.
"Masterton delivers another well-written horror story." —Booklist
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Widower Jack Wallace is prompted by his autistic son's dire visions to investigate a mass suicide at a Boy Scout camp in Michigan. A mysterious woman subsequently leads Jack to explore a connection between the Michigan horror and the disappearance of his great-grandfather in Poland during WWII. A running debate about free will vs. fate punctuates Masterton's clumsy attempts to induce horror through redundant outbreaks of slaughter and repetitive sightings of elusive white shapes in the woods. Discourse on the differences between Slovak and Polish cookery provide vivid comic relief amid indistinguishable instances of descent into panic and declamatory warnings. A talky resolution fizzles into incoherence as lawmen confront malign entities and Jack's son implausibly explains the origins and motivations of the forest spirits. Masterton never manages to create a viable story from this assortment of clashing clich d elements.
