![]() ![]() I never once went "Oh come on!" or "Are you kidding ![]() Me with some solid hours of reading enjoyment, probably because I wasĮxpecting so little. While it's not a great horror novel by any means, Effigies provided Also: little Leslie Bannister, the girl on the cover, whose invisible playmates bode unwell for her and well everyone babysitter Susan Dixon, who straddles the line between dutiful daughter and drug and sex experimenter up in the woods Ken Brady, maybe her boyfriend, maybe not, he hangs around too much with that creep Freddie Loftus. Lots of characters, get ready: Nicole's husband Jonathan, a commercial artist working in the (dangerous) city his colleague Henry Dixon, a bitter drunk whose tipple is Boodles gin (crime readers may note this was Travis McGee's drink as well) Dixon's wife Estelle, who feels intellectually inferior in this environments of creatives, has been digging pseudoscience as of late and has discovered the Ouija board Father Daniel Conant, a darkly handsome yet friendly, thoughtful young priest who wishes to help Nicole deal with her shock Maria Braithwaite, a worldly European sophisticate who eyes Americans as shallow and impulsive Judge Oliver Marquith, expansive and greedy, eager to purchase the plot of land called Job's Camp and more. ![]()
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