Pure Nightmare Fuel! (Contains Possible Spoilers)

This is an exceptional book about the horror of grief and loss. Or perhaps it's the deranged ramblings of madman who has murdered his wife and child along with an innocent bystander. Burke does a masterful job in Blanky of using every parent's worst nightmare to drive the story in one direction, only to pull the rug out from under the reader once it becomes clear that we are dealing with a possibly unreliable narrator. I loved the mysterious, ambiguous ending and posit that you will be hard-pressed to find more haunting nightmare sequence anywhere. This is some excellent horror writing.

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