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Riptide, Oregon, 1983. A sleepy coastal town, where crime usually consists of underage drinking down at a Wolf Point bonfire. But then strange things start happening-a human skeleton is unearthed in a local park and mutilated animals begin appearing, seemingly sacrificed, on the town's beaches. The Mercy of the Tide…
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I used to look forward to receiving Stephen King’s latest novel for Christmas each year, but I haven’t cared for most of his post-2000 books, and my annual excitement had begun to wane…until I found a replacement in Keith Rosson. His writing has all the energy and honesty of early King, but Rosson is an altogether superior author, and this—his first novel—combines grim small-town horror with literary and crime noir sensibilities.
There aren’t many modern-day genre fiction writers whose prose I envy, but I read every page of Rosson’s books in a state of grinding envy and…
From Kris' list on horror novels set in a small town.
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