“Stark terror that strikes in the dark.”

106. Darker – Andrew Matthews

The Point Horror Unleashed series whisks us away to Abernant, Wales, the scene of much boredom during the summer and also Nick’s giant break up with Louise. Poor Nick. He works in a bookstore with a sort of grumpy dude like every dude who owns a bookstore and is noticing more and more that there are teen boys terrorizing the whole town for literally no reason, like the gang in Psychomania without motorcycles. They’re super rude and totally don’t care. Total hooligans. And none of them sound as cool as Tom Latham, which is unfortunate because there is a dark force propelling them to their stupid and awful activities and it is also named Tom in a roundabout way.

You see and old story of Abernant involves a Tom Dacre, which is spelled in varying ways over the stories, getting hanged, followed by repeated time periods of total teen takeovers of shittiness in the town. The bookstore owner was traumatized by the last Tom Dacre plague and he’s doing primary source material research to see it doesn’t happen again. So is Nick, his employee, the one dude who is kind of immune to Dacre’s mind control from beyond the grave because he’s really more of a demonic entity now called Darker. Anyway, Nick’s also got a new girlfriend who likes UFOs and is a little overly talkative, so now he’s got her to lose as well. Of course, my favorite thing about this is that they’re doing research in two places with archives to sort it out. Research!

 

With or without a plague, it takes at least full ears of corn for Hen Wen and Snuffy to be civilized to each other. Full ears, as you can see.

 

Hen Wen and Snuffy really did never bond. Not even over those ears of corn or their powerful leadership skills or anything.
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