- Title:
- Shiftling
- By:
- Steven Savile
- Pages:
- 102
- Rating:
- 3
One summer in 1985, the funfair came to the sleepy rural town of Ashthorpe, and with it the smells of hot dogs and candy floss, the allure of magicians and the Big Wheel, and the sounds of young girls giggling. But what promised to be the highlight of the season for a band of teenage boys soon turns to tragedy.
Years later, when Drew receives a mysterious phone call, he learns one of the most important lessons life has to teach: the past can never be forgotten.
For the past wears many faces, and some of them are drenched in blood.
A clever little work on the fallibility of memory with a tinge of horror to keep the juices pumping. Not an author I’m familiar with, but not a genre I’m comfortable judging.