Title: The adding machine
Description: In the words of Stephen King (re: James Herbert): "He puts on his combat boots and assaults the reader with horror".  First read as a pre-teen, this tale of a cruel Caribbean plantation owner who acquires a demonic adding machine, is one of the scariest books I ever read. It was many years before I understood and appreciated the subtext of 'a fable of Capitalism".  Still scary though...
Subjects: West Indian, horror, scary, capitalism, commerce, Caribbean
Places: Guyana
People: Mittleholzer
Time periods: Early 20th century