Crimson

In Dunnville, a small town shrouded in fear and darkness, four boyhood friends discover the truth about the town's legacy of blood, murder, and madness when they release an ancient evil from an icy well that brings the nightmares of the past back into the present. Original.

From Publishers Weekly

This memorable debut, first published by Prime Books in 2002, reads like a clumsy but endearing homage to Stephen King. Four engaging boys from Dunville, Ontario, dub their 1977 club The Knights of the Round Room after finding a bomb shelter on Johnny Page's farm. In 1955 Jacob Harrison killed his family and hanged himself on that same spot, and Johnny's tumble into a well awakens a creature who has possessed what's left of Harrison's corpse. It confronts the boys and tempts one of them into evil. By 1986, the boys are 19 and the creature is rampaging again, framing Johnny's friend Peter for the Ripper Killer's 12-victim crime spree. The sometimes cartoonishly gory descriptions and awkward prose find their foundation in Rollo's skillful borrowings from horror's top writers. (Mar.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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