Christina Parr (née Monroe) fled Parr’s Landing with her fiancé Jack Parr 16 years ago in order to escape Jack’s dominating mother and allow the two lovers to get married and have their baby in peace. Five years later, Jack’s brother Jeremy joined them after the boys’ mother sent Jeremy to an asylum where he was basically tortured for six months in an attempt to “cure” his homosexuality. Now, in 1972, with Jack having been killed in an accident, Christina, Morgan (her daughter) and Jeremy have no choice left but to return to Parr’s Landing. The problem is that something else is already in Parr’s Landing – something has been sleeping in the caves under the town. And it’s about to wake up and fill the streets of Parr’s Landing with blood … Is it the mythical Wendigo of Native legends? Or is it something more recent – perhaps dating back to the destruction of the first Jesuit Mission in 1630?

Just after Halloween, this amazing horror novel is being released by ChiZine Publications, the leader in speculative fiction. “Enter, Night” will be available on November 1, 2011, and if you are a fan of horror books, especially those relating to vampire-type creatures, you will definitely want to be on the look-out for this terrific, creepy novel. The characters are fabulous, the plot moves with a brutal efficiency, and the writing is superb. There are a few editing problems – nothing too obtrusive, but there are a few instances of the wrong name/pronoun being used, and a few grammatical mistakes and missing words. But the story, the writing, the plot, the characters – they all make up for it. I was also well pleased with the scholarly nature of the writing – several times I had to look up words, and I have a pretty decent vocabulary. I should mention that about 80% of the book is the actual story – after the end of the story, a copy of a manuscript described in the text is provided that gives the background of the area and the genesis of the monster. I found this particularly interesting and it seems pretty well-researched. Michael Rowe is definitely a name to watch for in the horror/speculative fiction field and I hope to see some more novels by this amazing writer!