![]() ![]() Erskine, a psychic based in Florida, now narrates the action in a smart-alecky way that makes the omens of doom he observes less than alarming, even when he's working with a deck of divination cards with some unsettling images. But whatever tension Masterton's created rapidly dissipates with the fifth chapter, as the perspective and setting shift. The words he speaks, "Get it out of me," are chillingly similar to her lover's postmortem utterances a short while later, apparently from the same cause. ![]() Masterton starts promisingly: Missouri doctor Anna Grey, an infectious disease expert who is studying a mysterious outbreak at an elementary school, is understandably freaked out when a patient talks to her after he's dead. There are more gross-outs than actual scares in Masterton's seventh Harry Erksine novel (after 2009's Blind Panic), and a strong stomach is a prerequisite for readers hoping to make it all the way through this uneven horror novel. ![]()
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