Review: Well-told horror...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 23, 2013
When Anton Ivanov burns to death in what seems like a horrific accident, his son Daniel inherits a mysterious prayer rug. It soon transpires that this prayer rug holds a terrible secret, one that Daniel gradually begins to learn through vivid dreams of a centuries old death in the Black Church of Brasov. And as Daniel begins to investigate the history of the rug, accidents begin to happen to the people he loves..."The child stared down at the floor as he moved toward Daniel, but he wasn't walking - he was gliding. Daniel stood in the middle of the dark room, frozen with fear as the apparition drew ever closer. When the boy stopped and looked at him, Daniel saw empty eye sockets as black as two deep wells..."This novella length chiller has all the traditional aspects of horror - old churches, curses, revenge, demons and gruesome deaths. It's well written and Tate builds the tension nicely, getting the reader's attention right from the dramatic beginning and holding it through to the end. The length is just right for a story of this nature - long enough for some character development but not so stretched out that the horror begins to wear thin. Although there are lots of deaths, the book is not too graphic - the horror is more in the anticipation than in the events themselves.An enjoyable and well-told horror story - just the thing for a dark winter evening.NB This book was provided for review by the publisher, DarkFuse.