I shouldn’t be here is an impression Paul gets when he arrives, and is repeated in varied and significant ways as he remains. The author builds up the terror almost perfectly with each skillful description leading to more fears.
Nightmare fuel.” But as the reader gets more into the story, Dread’s Hand becomes the foundation for a more deadly horror. It is described as barely a town at all and those who visit it remember it “as a sequence of crude Neanderthal drawings, a series of snapshots all laid out of order, and in random, nonsensical collages. Ronald Malfi is a master of dark description and Dread’s Hands is all the more forbidding because of it. Like many who grieve, Paul is looking for resolution but instead is being sucked into a bigger mystery and an even more horrible secret.īone White is one of those rare horror novels that can make a place a monster. His journey leads him to a strange small town where crosses are mounted near the roadside like some form of protection, children wear animal masks to ward off devils, and the inhabitants seem fearful of him and just want him to leave.
He travels to Alaska to find out if his brother is one of those that was murdered. When Paul Gallo hears about this chain of murder and discovery on the news, he instantly recognizes the place as where his twin brother Danny went missing a year ago. He leads the investigators to where he buried the bodies. In the (hopefully) fictional town of Dread’s Hands, Alaska, Joe Mallory has confessed to eight murders.
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