Review: "And then the screaming began..."
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2014
The story revolves around a young woman, Stacey, who, with her finance, moves into some rooms in a run-down part of town while she pursues postgraduate studies. Stacey soon learns that the neighborhood houses vandals and other types of criminals, but there is something even more troubling in her new home. Events in her life and her mental state take a turn for the worse as she increasingly learns more about the dark presence that she finds herself forced to live with, as well as its former victims.Author C.S. Kane here gives us a solid short work of dark fiction, with a clean writing style and believable characters. The increasing oppression that Stacey feels comes through quite well, and real-life horror and supernatural horror blend into a satisfying tale of the struggle against evil. There is little in the way of humor, but I did laugh aloud at something that Stacey screams at a poster while she is in a meltdown state. Although the ending was good, I would have liked to have seen a slightly different end to the epilogue, but I liked the book very much, indeed.