Berge Manor

In the creepy tradition of Robert Bloch’s PSYCHO and Shirley Jackson’s WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE, Patrick Whitehurst cooks up a batch of weirdness and dangerously eccentric characters in BERGE MANOR.It started with mysterious and inexplicable murders in the town of Oak Creek but led to so much worse.In this disturbing and enthralling novel of unimaginable horrors, readers will meet:Lounge club singer Rhombus Berge, head of the Berge family, who wants only happiness for his siblings, and isn’t above murder to make it that wayEyeball man, his psycho brother, covered in gruesome eyeballs, who’s hell bent on murder and mayhemGlass, the family introvert, with see-through skin that tears easier than papier-mâché and a knack for keeping out of sightJanis, a lover of Lord Byron, who falls in love despite Eyeball man’s keen disapprovalBig Jim, a man’s man who loves cars and country music, and harbors a secret he hoped would never be exposedMama, the family’s caretaker, who learns firsthand of the evil under her roofThe youngest Berge, Billy, who takes his love of comic books too far when it comes to the neighborhood bulliesAnd newspaper editor Peter Smart, whose job leads him on a collision course with Berge Manor’s odd residentsAs new murders occur in the small community of Oak Creek, and an investigation closes in, the Berge clan faces a tough decision - quash the evil under the manor themselves or risk becoming victims

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