Review: "The Woods Have Eyes"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 28, 2013
This story by Author Sam Best starts slowly introducing characters and their backgrounds.  It then rapidly turns into a dark suspense that keeps you riveted.  Falling Creek, Colorado, a small town, is barely hanging on.  Most of the residents are born and raised in this quiet town, which hardly needs a police force.  Ben Howard and his four-year old daughter, Annabelle, are moving back to this town where he was raised after his wife was tragically killed in an automobile accident.  He's always wanted to return to this town of peacefulness and restore his parents home.  Karen Rainer is a deputy sheriff only out of the academy for ten months.  It was two months before she got to make her first arrest.  Moses St. Croix is pastor of The Last Valley Church whom many of the townspeople believe to be eccentric.  For example, he walks into town, stops at the one and only tavern and approaches Karen and her fellow law enforcers sitting at a table.  He issues them a warning that the town needs to be evacuated.  They just smile and are further convinced of the pastor's insanity.  Not so!  This is an apocalyptic story of evil.  It is well written, has compelling characters who are well defined, and the story is well written. It is very haunting and very scary.  But...I will continue reading his stories which are cleverly honed.  I highly recommend this story for horror loving fans.