As usual with Epperson, there are some brutal descriptions and good solid horror. And Frank.

51. Nightmare – S.K. Epperson

There is a lot of darkness going on in S.K. Epperson’s tale of two doctors who treat what would now be called dissociative identity disorder, one doctor has a brother who is a writer and they have a difficult relationship, but the writer is needed to come to the ranch where the other doctor does his work to write about the whole thing. The doctor who owns the ranch is not behind all the serious injuries and/or deaths that have happened to the patients…and he has a wife who is super into electronics and has a psychology background herself. She’s also into the writer.

Also along for the story of a terrible working environment and weirdo-family drama are Mel, a bisexual nurse assistant type who comes along to the ranch and definitely wants to leave before she ends up in a cave full of dead animals and one lady, Kate, a very pale love interest/former patient turned assistant who really likes the writer once she meets him and his parrot, and Jay, the totally bizarre gun-obsessed son of the ranch doctor and his hidden electronics and chocolate loving wife. Oh, and Frank, the writer’s parrot who loves beer and watching the Oprah show. Frank really was a parrot of sound mind.

 

Duncan was a guinea pig of sound mind and she stayed by my side while I outlined parts of my Squirrelpocalypse Trilogy. Not a beer drinker though.