I’m not sure how to review this book without spoiling it, but what I *can* tell you is that I just could not stop reading. It kept me up all night, turning pages, because at first I just needed to know what happened next and then I needed to understand what exactly was going on, and then from about the halfway point I thought I *might* know and I was absolutely certain that I would find out on the next page, then maybe the next page, then surely the next page.  Pure mind-fuckery in the end. I loved it. Highly recommend.

Paperback version, picked up on the strength of Char’s review, which did not steer me wrong.  

I read this book for the Booklikes Halloween Bingo 2019, for the square Stranger Things: This is a twist on the past 80's Horror square, with elements of the television show - any horror that has supernatural elements, portal/parallel universes, government plots gone awry, or is set or was written in the 1980's. This book features what appear to be portals into parallel worlds and government plots gone awry.

It could also fit the squares for:

Doomsday (postapocalyptic)

Modern Masters of Horror (published in 2014)

Genre: Horror (no shortage of that here)

Creepy Crawlies (giant roaches!)

Sleepy Hollow

Dystopian Hellscape (kind of goes with the post-apocalyptic)

Psych (plenty of mind fuckery)

Serial/Spree Killer (the portals take people into the minds of both kinds of killers)

Prior Updates:

Sep23 320/320pg

I'm dying, y'all. I am way too old for staying up all night on a workday to finish books, but I could not stop reading this one last night. How am I going to make it through the day now.

You know, I'm not sure how many authors have been repeats.  Oh, but let's see.  Well since the story Char told, Steve Rasnic Tem.  And there is Sjon.  And Cherie Priest!

Have to say Buck Me and the Con Artist I didn't enjoy as much as the other two - but the covers are cool.

I had this marked for Classic Horror, but it's not really a horror story.

Unless you count childhood neglect/abuse as horror.

It's an account of a, surprisingly stable after he told his story from childhood to enlistment, man who ends up in a mental illness facility because of a 2 line letter he wrote to his girl and punching his superior officer during a scuffle with the MPs.

It reminded me of reading When Rabbit Howls.

Or maybe closer to I Never Promised You Rose Garden.

Since it doesn't really fit any of my squares, I'm not going to slot this for now.