![]() To his credit, Keene does explore those last couple of questions in his story of a small town where suddenly darkness reigns and it appears that its twelve thousand or so residents are the only people remaining in existence. What lurks in the darkness? What if the darkness were a real thing? A force, evil and unconquerable? ![]() To imagine a world where a thick wall of darkness has surrounded it, cutting off rain, wind, electricity, and other humanity beyond the confines of our one small town is some genuinely creepy fodder for spine-tingling horror. The dark is one of our greatest human fears, with us from as far back as most of us can remember. The simple synopsis above, taken from the book’s Amazon detail page, is chilling – and it pretty much encapsulates the whole novel – and that’s too bad, because the premise offers so much more potential. I wish I could say the same for Keene’s work. ![]() Like Darkness on the Edge of Town, those books both had apocalyptic breakdown of civilization premises and both of them worked, more or less. ![]() Review: The premise above sounds intriguing, doesn’t it? Especially for fans of books like Stephen King’s Under the Dome or even Michael Grant’s Gone. Synopsis: One morning the residents of Walden, Virginia, woke to find themselves cut off from the rest of the world by an impenetrable wall of darkness. ![]()
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