Gilchrist by Christian Galacar
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Paranormal Horror, Extreme Horror
“I know why we’re all here,” Elhouse said, his lower lip trembling, eyes unblinking. “It’s worse than you can imagine.”
“Death is a big and ugly thing. It’s clumsy and loud, yet somehow it manages to be so damn clever and sneaky. It just doesn’t seem fair.”
Peter and Sylvia lost their little boy 2 years ago in a horrible accident. As a lot of couples do when a child is lost, they have grown apart in their grief. Drawn to drinking and pills to numb the pain and memories, they both know that their marriage is on it’s last threads.
“Sometimes things weren’t fine. Sometimes the broken thing stayed broken until it was thrown away.”
“Death had hardened the soil of their hearts, and now no new love could grow.”
One night Peter has a dream and in it something keeps saying the name Gilchrist.
“The dream was already disintegrating and taking on a lost and distant feeling like a fading echo. It left behind only its disquiet, not its details.”
Shortly after, Peter finds the town of Gilchrist and there is something so familiar about it. He rents a lake cabin for him and Sylvia to come and heal their hearts and hopefully their relationship. A few weeks vacation might be just what they need.
“Do you ever get déjà vu, Mr. Saltzman? Like really strong déjà vu?”
After arriving, horrible things start to happen, leaving one dead after another. There is something terrible about this town and Peter is wondering if they came here or if they were brought here.
“You will understand. Everyone will. It harvests what it sows. Can’t you feel it everywhere… watching? Right around you, all the time? It’s been here all along.”
“it has something to do with that town. There’s—I don’t know—a thinness to that place.”
“Just because something doesn’t make sense to you,” she said, “doesn’t mean it isn’t real.”
Stranger Things meets Odd Thomas. One of the best horror books I have read in a long time! Creepy and thrilling, you just want to keep reading and not put it down. Fast paced action with no dull spots. Everything in this book adds to the storyline. I loved the plot, the turns, the gruesomeness, and the paranormal aspects of it. Definitely recommend to fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz.
I will certainly be putting more Christian Galacar books on my TBR.
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