![]() ![]() yet, as the story draws on, our sympathy for them grows alongside a grudging sort of admiration.Īs for the Little Heaven of the title, it's a secluded religious cult, rotting away beneath the cursed shadow of Black Rock. They're all unlikable scoundrels, bounty hunters and assassins who we could easily dismiss as having earned their fate. Cutter establishes so much atmosphere and so much dread in those first few pages, it's genuinely chilling.įrom there, we go on to meet the tale's three protagonists, each of them suffering under fifteen years of having their fondest wish granted. The story wastes no time getting to the dark stuff, opening with the creation of a monstrous abomination, and following through to its abduction of a young girl. ![]() As much as I enjoyed the horrifying darkness of The Troop and The Deep, Nick Cutter takes his craft to a whole other level here, establishing a cast of characters who are wholly worthy of the story's grotesque terror. ![]() Little Heaven is destined to be a horror classic, right up there with the vintage epics of King, Simmons, and McCammon. ![]()
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