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His Father's Son

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“On a par with such greats as Stephen King, Clive Barker and Peter Straub” (Midwest Book Review), Bentley Little brings his unnerving talents to the terrifying story of a dysfunctional family in crisis.
Steve Nye writes for an alumni magazine and his long-term relationship is on the steady path to marriage. But his quiet life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a phone call from his mother. His father attacked her and has been committed to a mental asylum. The doctor says he’s suffering from dementia. But Steve’s father seems so calm, clear-eyed, and perfectly lucid when he whispers, “I killed her…”
 
Is it simply another symptom of delusion and madness? To find the answer, Steve investigates the cryptic message leading him down a terrifying path of his own making—and of his own nightmares....
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    • Library Journal

      October 12, 2009
      As with Joe Schreiber's No Doors, No Windows (see below), this story begins with a man's shocking discovery about his father's past. In this case, though, the father isn't dead, only very ill, and the horror is purely psychological. Steve Nye visits his father, Joe, in the hospital after he suffered a stroke and attacked his wife. In his delirium, Joe admits to killing his wife, and Steve is shocked to learn that he refers to a first wife no one knew he had. Tracking down the facts of this long-buried murder leads Steve to dark insights about what his father, and himself, are capable of. Verdict Horror veteran Little has done a fine job. Readers of serial-killerAfiction by Thomas Harris and the like will enjoy this.

      Copyright 2009 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      September 15, 2009
      Steve Nyes comfortably bland, Southern California life as a soon-to-be married writer for alumni publications takes a sudden, unsettling turn when his father has a stroke and lapses into a state of babbling dementia. Yet in a moment of lucidity during one of Steves impromptu hospital visits, his father makes a startling confession: I killed her. The victim, Steve soon learns, was his fathers first wife, a woman previously unknown to him, whose forgotten trail Steve follows to New Mexico, where her death was deemed a suicide. Then his father makes a further admission, I killed them, and Steves life begins to spiral downward. In trying to save his fathers reputation from a possible blackmailer, Steve begins to commit his own series of gruesome acts, discovering against his hopes how much his fathers son he really is. Prolific supernatural horror specialist Little has mastered all the indispensable nuances of tightly wound suspense. While his latest outing eschews the supernatural trimmings for more naturalistic horror, his prose remains crisp and irresistibly engaging.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)

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