Review: Digging up horrors
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 26, 2014
After suffering a personal tragedy, Meg leaves her successful career and moves to the coast with her husband. While her husband is away at work -- "He was leaving her again" -- Meg begins to explore the countryside around her house, but she soon begins to suspect that something unknown and dangerous lurks nearby. While she mulls over her loss and her strained relationship with her husband, she starts to piece together parts of the mystery out of the history of the area as well as her own odd experiences around her home.There is a certain elegance of style in Gary Fry's works -- this story has a quiet sense of subtle dread and foreboding that puts me in mind just a bit of my favorite ghost story writer, M.R. James. Despite the subtlety of the build-up, the ending is quite horrifying and leaves little to the imagination. Still, although I don't know if it was the author's intention or not, I was left with a little uncertainty about exactly what had happened, due to the fact that we see everything through Meg's rather paranoid perception. There seems to be room for a couple of interpretations.This was the the first book by Gary Fry that I read, and if you are unfamiliar with his work, you would do well to start with this excellent short work.