Trevor McGee returns to Missing Mile, North Carolina, to confront the ghosts of his childhood. Twenty years earlier, his father, a famous underground cartoonist, murdered the rest of the family before taking his own life. Trevor moves into the decaying house where the killings occurred, hoping to understand the source of his father's madness. He meets Zachary Bosch, a gifted hacker fleeing legal trouble in New Orleans. As the two men begin a physical relationship, the malevolent spirit within the house awakens, using old sketchbooks and lingering trauma to pull Trevor toward a violent, cyclical fate.
Horror fans who appreciate the subculture of the early nineties find a visceral depiction of the goth and hacker underground here. Readers gain a detailed look at how ancestral trauma manifests as physical haunting and how creativity can become a weapon of psychological destruction. It serves those interested in the overlap of eroticism and the supernatural, providing a resolution where personal connection challenges the inevitability of inherited violence. The story offers a gritty, stylistic alternative to traditional haunted house narratives.
Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
