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The Devil All the Time
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A preacher who eats spiders, trying to strike his own parable with the church folk. His little talks with Jesus end up turning his deluded notions into full blown insanity.
A husband and wife comb the backroads picking up young male hitchhikers, all of them coming to an end in a true photo finish. The woman, thinking herself a slightly better class of trash than her husband, idly scratches her “jigger� bites and dreams of moving on without him.
A sheriff who recognizes that being the law in a backward county has its advantages.
A prayer log lies just inside the perimeter of the woods. Day after day, a husband saturates it with a sacrifice of blood. His own blood, the blood of a lamb, of fresh roadkill, of any breed of unfortunate stray that might cross his path. In his twisted and tormented logic, he fervently believes if he and his little boy pray loudly and long enough, The Cancer will be taken from his wife. The thing about that bloody prayer log, though, is that it just doesn’t work.
Unforgiving and disturbing, this one will have your skin crawling in nothing flat. Dark perfection.
A husband and wife comb the backroads picking up young male hitchhikers, all of them coming to an end in a true photo finish. The woman, thinking herself a slightly better class of trash than her husband, idly scratches her “jigger� bites and dreams of moving on without him.
A sheriff who recognizes that being the law in a backward county has its advantages.
A prayer log lies just inside the perimeter of the woods. Day after day, a husband saturates it with a sacrifice of blood. His own blood, the blood of a lamb, of fresh roadkill, of any breed of unfortunate stray that might cross his path. In his twisted and tormented logic, he fervently believes if he and his little boy pray loudly and long enough, The Cancer will be taken from his wife. The thing about that bloody prayer log, though, is that it just doesn’t work.
Unforgiving and disturbing, this one will have your skin crawling in nothing flat. Dark perfection.
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June 1, 2014
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June 1, 2014
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September 10, 2016
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September 13, 2016
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public-library
September 13, 2016
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Finished Reading
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Thankee, Arah-Lynda. It pretty much blew me away. Sorry it is over.


Hee hee. I don't write 'em, I just review 'em. ;-)

Many thanks, Mike!

I know! A disgusting practice, to be sure. Thanks, Debbie!

Yay! I can see you liking this one immensely, Carol.

Then you must surely love the notion of the Zit-Eater, who also figures in this book :-D
Great review Zoeytron!


Thanks, Carol. This was one of my few 5-stars of 2016. Right down my alley, the one without streetlights. I enjoyed your review, too!


Thanks, Melissa. No, I have yet to read any of the author's other books, but the intent is there. Just checked out your review for this, and am tickled you liked it just as much as I did. Yay!

So good to see this novel come back up to the surface. Many thanks, Susanne.