Demon's Eye

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Summary: For horror fans only.
Review: Let me be right up front: this book is not going to win any awards. The dialogue is silly, the characters are unbelievable caricatures, it's melodramatic, and the plot lacks coherence. (Gresham presents a plot then throws a lot of unexplained stuff into it.) But for horror fans, it is an entertaining yarn with some genuinely creepy scenes that you'll get a kick out of. I would liken this to a drive-in B-horror movie. The locale is creepy and there are some imaginative scenes (especially the "spider creatures".) The plot: Three families visit an old secluded inn to consider buying it as resort. Although the old mansion in the woods appears abandoned, it is occupied by something evil (of course.) It is an entity that can appear as a young man but is actually a kind of demon and it does not want intruders in its home. Within a few days, the group finds themselves trapped and the creature begins to pick them off in some mysterious and nasty ways. Only a young boy with strange powers understands the danger and he alone can fight the demon... Pick this up if you appreciate horror in a b-movie vein. And if you like it, Gresham is a prolific author with more than a dozen horror books to his name, so you have a lot to look forward to. I'm giving this book 3 1/2 stars because Gresham obviously loves the genre and his passion comes across in his writing. I, myself, love horror fiction so much that I read the good and the bad, and I appreciate them both for what they are. For my tastes, there isn't enough horror fiction out there to please me.