Reread. The final "gift" has been delivered to Harvey Connally, the uncle of Oliver Metcalf, but Harvey is certain the gift was actually meant for his nephew. When Oliver sees the shaving box with a blood-stained straight razor inside, all of the repressed memories came flooding back. Oliver's ...
Re-read. After the tragedy that had befallen her aunt Martha and cousin Andrea, Rebecca is taken in by Germaine Wagner, who is just an asshat! The way the people in this town treat Rebecca is just infuriating. But I digress, she basically wants to use Rebecca as slave labor and to have someone e...
Re-read. The dark figure has chosen the Ward family as their next victim. Martha Ward is a religious fanatic. She drove her husband away and then her only daughter, and when her sister died in a car accident, she took in her niece Rebecca and tried to teach her the path of righteousness. Everyo...
Re-read. Things continue to go bad within the town of Blackstone. The local family-run, independent bank is in the midst of an audit, which has put a halt on the renovation of the old asylum into a shopping center. Which the town desperately needs. Jules Hartwick, who's family had opened a cent...
This is a re-read for me. I read the original serial novels as they were published and felt the need to revisit them. Creepy. Creepy. Creepy. Ugh I love John Saul's writing so much! Strange things are afoot in the town of Blackstone. The Blackstone Asylum, which has stood at the top of the talle...
And the hexalogy closes with a whimper. The final book of Saul's Blackstone Chronicles completes the serialized work as expected, since throughout the series there has been only one logical suspect behind the distribution of the asylum artifacts. I did not mind the explanation and can even forgive t...
From Casual Debris. The fourth part of John Saul's serially published The Blackstone Chronicles focuses on a handkerchief. If italicized prologues are to be believed, this cursed item is embroidered with a fancy R by an asylum patient who deliriously believes she is living at society's upper s...
From Casual DebrisThe third part of John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles series is an improved entry over its pair of predecessors, as its formulaic bits are more focused and intertwined.The italicized introductory pages present a disturbing account of a young woman being ostracized by family and commu...
From Casual Debris."The Locket" is the second novella in John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles. It is weaker than it's fairly average predecessor, "The Doll," but the broader story is made more interesting as characters peripheral to the main plot are further developed, generating expectations for their...
From Casual Debris.This first novella in the series opens with introductory italicized text sharing the backstory of a boy being brought to an asylum, separated from his mother, but not from his doll. We are then gathered along with the townsfolk to witness the demolition of that asylum which for ne...
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