Eminence Front
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Publisher Description
A winter storm ravages a small community in New England, but the residents of one street are unprepared for what the snow brings: an ancient curse, an entity that knows both their sins and their regrets and will stop at nothing to consume what belongs to it.
When John Stephenson peers out of his window on a Tuesday morning, he sees nothing but clear, gray skies hovering above the houses on his staid suburban street, but the next 48 hours will prove to be a waking nightmare from which John and his neighbors cannot escape. As the first flakes fall, the whispering begins. A woman walking her dog leans into the sidewalk as though something buried beneath speaks to her. As the storm grows in ferocity, each of the residents hear the storm calling.
What it says, however, few may survive to repeat.
From Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award finalist Rebecca Rowland comes a winter horror novel of cosmic proportions, one in which one neighborhood comes face to face, and ear to ear, with a malevolence as old as the world itself.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this gruesome outing from Rowland (Optic Nerve), a 48-hour snowstorm reveals the brutal truths lurking beneath the surface of what appears to be an average suburban neighborhood. The narrative moves house to house through a picturesque New England enclave as the storm rolls in, uncovering the secrets each neighbor is hiding. There's a man whose agoraphobia drove his partner away; a woman who is cheating on her live-in boyfriend with their friend and neighbor, who himself hides a cocaine habit; and a housewife whose obsessive cleaning can't cover the cracks in her relationship with her husband. One by one, these residents feel mysteriously called out into the storm, where they are confronted by strange whispers and hallucinations of their neighbors who use these secrets to manipulate them into acts of brutal violence. As whatever malevolent force lurks in the snow expands its range of attack, the bodies pile up. The turns are shocking and well-crafted, and the imagery is graphic and striking. Horror fans will find plenty to haunt them.
