Review: Don't Go In the Fields Again!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 6, 2012
I bought this almost solely on the review posted at [...]... . The cover art, the blurb, and the review all convinced me, plus I had already read one of Mr. Vernon's novels and know how good is his writing. [...]Review of Tatterdemon by Steve Vernon5 starsA graphic, gory, violent-ridden horror novel, "Tatterdemon" stood my hair on end. Wildly creative, with a good premise, the story is stomach-churning but I consider it worth the read. A subtle trace of wry humour kept me chuckling in the midst of the terrors, sorely needed because these entities are pretty near implacable. Certainly the title character-who was no great shakes when alive-is similar to a Juggernaut. Think you know scarecrows? Think again: fields aren't just for sowing crops. Sometimes they're for harvesting scarecrow entities from the corpses of anything: human, animal, what have you-throw it into the mix (into the soil) and it comes back ambulatory and deadly.Set in Nova Scotia, "Tatterdemon" is the story of the community of Crossfall and its environs, a fated locale if I ever read of one (think Roanoke Island, with killings instead of disappearances). All I know is, I never want to live there!