When Alex Wilson's estranged uncle unexpectedly dies, Alex realizes he would do just about anything to make peace with the man who had raised him as his own.
He'd even reach out to the dead.
But things more dangerous than ghosts haunt his uncle's broken down trailer and the nearly abandoned one-gas-station town of Fair Hill just beyond. Things that can devour the living and the dead alike, and are all too ready to answer his call.
Some parts of our past never really leave us. There are things that don't know how to die.
These things linger.
Dan Franklin's supernatural thriller novel These Things Linger is a twisting and unforgiving tale of desperation, depression, heritage, and of other hungry, vicious things.
Alex Wilson never put much stock in the supernatural. Not even when he witnessed a strange occurrence after participating in an unfinished ritual with a girlfriend years ago.
But now that his uncle has passed away, with so much unresolved between them, he would do anything to talk to him one last time. Desperate for closure he uses the half-remembered spell from his youth, and something answers his call.
Alex is now the target of an evil entity, putting his life and the lives of his fiancé and their unborn child in peril. Can he undo what has been done?
What has begun as a doleful tale of loss and regret soon plunges into all out terror when the entity shows its power. Dan Franklin is adept at building empathy for the characters on one hand while ratcheting up the fear of a grim outcome on the other. It made me wonder what I would risk for a chance to speak to loved ones a final time, but it also drives home the point that if you have something to say or hard feelings to clear up you shouldn't put it off until it's too late. Do not disturb the dead, you never know what may be waiting to come through from the other side.
I received an advance copy for review.
4 out of 5 stars
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