🩸 Horror Fiction

The Revelation

✍️ Bentley Little
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🏛 Cemetery Dance Publications 📅 2014 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781587674518

📝 Description: The Revelation

Originally published: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.

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Bentley Little’s debut novel, The Revelation, turns a quiet Arizona desert community into a crucible of escalating unease as ordinary neighbors begin behaving with a chilling, synchronized malice. The book relies on a mounting atmospheric dread, transforming familiar suburban spaces into sites of profound psychological and physical violation rather than relying on cheap shocks. It builds its tension through a slow, pervasive unraveling of social order, tapping into deep-seated anxieties about conformity, community, and the darkness hidden behind closed doors. This unnerving story will suit readers who appreciate slow-burn, apocalyptic horror rooted in domestic realism, though its intense depictions of cruelty make it best suited for seasoned horror fans looking for a deeply unsettling experience.
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Bentley Little’s debut novel, The Revelation, turns a quiet Arizona desert community into a crucible of escalating unease as ordinary neighbors begin behaving with a chilling, synchronized malice. The book relies on a mounting atmospheric dread, transforming familiar suburban spaces into sites of profound psychological and physical violation rather than relying on cheap shocks. It builds its tension through a slow, pervasive unraveling of social order, tapping into deep-seated anxieties about conformity, community, and the darkness hidden behind closed doors. This unnerving story will suit readers who appreciate slow-burn, apocalyptic horror rooted in domestic realism, though its intense depictions of cruelty make it best suited for seasoned horror fans looking for a deeply unsettling experience.

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