Review: A taut stranger danger tale brimming with real characters
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 28, 2013
This one took me a bit by surprise.After reading several other Gifune stories, I expected a good character exploration, but this digs even deeper. What appears to be a friendly stopover by a mild-mannered senior citizen telling Will Colby's wife Betty stories about when she was a child morphs into a tense stranger encounter. Will and Betty placate the man with his stories at first, but Will begins to suspect there is something dark and disturbing behind the man's manner and how, why is he touching his wife in a perverted manner and yet she doesn't seem to notice or mind . . .Read this story. It's fantastic! The tension and the pacing are well worth reading in this creepy novella. The only criticism that keeps this from more than a solid four stars for me is that once I learned the payoff it seemed (like some other Gifune stories have too) a bit too familiar to some other horror stories I've read. It's right up there withJudas Goatas my favorite by Gifune that I've read so far. 1,472 Kindle locations. Recommended.