Garden of Evil (A Jim Rook Horror Novel)
Remedial English teacher Jim Rook’s first day of the new term doesn’t go smoothly—not at all. First. he nearly runs over someone who’s inexplicably walking in the middle of the road (also inexplicably dressed entirely in black). But that’s nothing compared to what he discovers in his classroom: the naked body of a woman pinned to the ceiling, surrounded by the bodies of eight Persian cats. Rook calls upon his unique psychic gifts to get to the bottom of the mystery, but if he’d known just how far he’d have to go, he might have stayed away from the whole thing. The eighth Rook novel succeeds, like its predecessors, because its protagonist is just an ordinary guy who’s a bit different from most other people. He’s not a superhero or a psychic warrior; he’s a community-college teacher who occasionally gets mixed up in events of an otherworldly nature. Masterton, a horror-genre veteran, shows us again why he’s been around as long as he has. --David Pitt