Monday, June 20, 2011

Book Review-Comes The Blind Fury by John Saul

"Comes the Blind Fury" by John Saul is a somewhat scary ghost story from 1980.

Plagued by the guilt of losing a young patient, Doctor Calvin Pendleton, his pregnant wife June and their  adopted daughter Michelle move from Boston to the small coastal town of Paradise Point.

Their new home comes complete with a spooky graveyard and a vengeful childs ghost. A century before, a blind child that lived in the Pendleton's new home died in a fall after she was taunted by other children. When Michelle is crippled in an accident, the ghost makes contact with her and the ghost uses Michelle to carry out her vengeance.

It is unclear why the ghost decides to murder children in the present for something that happened a century before,  but there are some creepy moments if you can overlook the holes in the narrative.



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