Review: Terrific bit of horror - recommended!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 21, 2011
A small town in the Pacific Northwest, just 20 miles from the sea, has been cut off from the world by mudslides.  David was just passing through, trying to find a town in which to settle and start a new life when he is stranded in Myrtle.  While sitting in the roadhouse that first night, he is accosted by a strange, red-headed man who claims that David is "the one" - while questioning other townsfolk, David learns about a disturbing local legend - there is a monster in the woods, and there is a bell, and if that bell is rung, the monster will awaken and destroy the world ... What David learns in that small town will change his life ... forever...This was a wonderfully perverse novella, a great little horror story.  I've love to see more of Brabander's work - he has a truly gifted sense of the macabre and horrific.  If you enjoy good horror, you will adore "The Old One."  Check it out!