Forest Ghost - A novel of horror and suicide in America and Poland
At a Michigan Boy Scout camp, a shocking event takes place: a mass suicide. Jack, a Chicago restaurateur, is driven to investigate the suicides (his son, Sparky, seems to have a strange connection to the victims), and what he discovers is even more shocking than he could possibly have imagined: these modern-day suicides appear somehow connected to the suicide of Jack’s own grandfather on a WWII battlefield. The link appears to be the setting itself: the forest. Jack’s odyssey takes him to Poland, where his grandfather died and where Jack must risk his own life to discover the truth about what makes people seek death. Masterton delivers another well-written horror story; it’s not his best work, but when you write as many books as Masterton does, some of them are going to be better than others. Still, for the author’s fans it should more than fit the bill. --David Pitt