Some Places Should Stay Abandoned….
Dr. Siegfried Klein has vanished on a mysterious pilgrimage to an abandoned infirmary in the ghost-town of Moonville. The locals in the surrounding areas are tight-lipped, hostile to outsiders. Local legend has it that the old Sick House is packed with spirits, none of them friendly, and that to set foot in it is to enter Hell itself.
Enter Harlan Ulrich, private investigator and skeptic.
Traveling to the site, the detective begins the long process of separating truth from grisly local myth, and during his investigation stumbles upon certain frightful evidence that tries his nerve. He wants to find the doctor in one piece and weathers the hostilities of the locals even as their stories keep him up at night. But the longer he spends in the ghost town of Moonville, the more he feels the influence of something sinister in the shuttered infirmary.
When finally the truth is revealed and the infirmary’s sordid past comes to light, will Ulrich manage to escape with his life?
Potentially Scary I’m always looking for a good book that can scare the day lights out of me, and this one definitely had the potential to do so. There were some great descriptive paragraphs that set the tone nicely ….Â
OK I was disappointed with the general subject of “horror” in this story. The main character, Dr. Ulrich, was developed well and his personality was consistent throughout the reading -much like a weasel rather than a hero. I didn’t care for the ending that was highly predictable and unimaginative. Still, it’s an easy read but more of a mystery than horror category.j
A fairly decent ghost story. The writing needs work. The main character in this novel ‘ambled’ so many times I nearly screamed. Occasionally he ‘shambled’, which almost came as a relief from all of the ambling. Not a bad story, and not necessarily badly written, but certainly excessive use of adjectives made for annoying reading at times.