Review of The Neighbors by Griffin Hayes
5 stars
“The Neighbors” is somewhat of a departure for this author,
as it involves elements of science fiction, but it is also horror (and
horrifying). The novella possesses that implacability of evil which is so
important to me in horror, that Juggernaut-ish intensity in which the evil
rolls toward and over the characters, unavoidable and persistent.
Novelist Paul is suffering the writer’s block of the
century, as well as loss of his family. He hopes a small town will trigger
something in his subconscious to re-inspire him, or at least will bring him
some semblance of peace. What small town life instead brings is “monsters” who
can duplicate DNA and who in their natural state are terrifying. Paul will have
to team up with clever fourteen-year-old Kevin to calculate how to stop their “invasion.”
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