This was a surprisingly engaging little horror novel, moving smoothly from ghost story to monster to cosmic horror. We have a small cast of characters but primarily we have occasionally functioning drunkard Jay, Tim who is rather more composed as a teenager than I ever was, and Sarah, a precocious little girl, together with their friends and family, who face the typical Thing Man Was Not Meant To Know (about) and attempt to deal with it in a stereotypically American way.

I didn't expect much for a random Kindle book I picked up somewhere (as one does), but I was well satisfied with the experience. I tossed up giving it four stars, but it wasn't quite there.