Advantages: Usual horror and gore fest. Disadvantages: Not as easy to get into as other Hutson novels
The Blurb:
Released from a mental hospital where he has spent all his adult life, Harold Pierce is given a job as a hospital porter. But that job involves the disposal of aborted foetuses, something which brings back nightmare memories of Harold's accidental killing of his baby brother years before. A time of trauma and terror has begun, terror heightened by the escape from prison of convicted killer Paul Harvey who, hunted by the police, embarks ... ...about to unleash a terror beyond belief...
I've been reading Shaun Hutson books for a while now I still haven't read them all but I intend to. I love his style of writing and his descriptiveness and the humour of some of the situations if wonderful. Some of the plot's are bizarre to say the least but I think that's what appeals to me. Our nutter Pierce has had a hard life his dad's gone his mum's on the game and he's seen things most children shouldn't ...
Drownkitty 10.03.2004
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