"A creepy-crawly kind of horror story"
A young woman leaves Canada and arrives by plane to an
unnamed village in a country where everyone refers to
everyone as citizen. Ann is looking for her grandfather
but nobody seems to have heard of him and she is forced to
confess that he committed suicide. She wants to know why
he left her alone in the world and while she continues on
her quest, Ann notices some very odd things about the
village. She can't find a way out of there because all roads lead
back to the central source. One resident is overheard
saying that nobody has left the village in five
generations. The village is infested with spiders that
leave a stench in every building in the town. Inanimate
objects talk to their owners and Ann discovers a cat named
Sam that actually talks to her. She feels as if she is
living in a nightmare and her greatest wish is that she
would wake up. SLEEPING BEAUTY is a series of vignettes, one scene
seamlessly slipping into another, some featuring Ann and
others showcasing inhabitants of the town. There is a
growing sense of uneasiness as one fact after another is
revealed and at times, readers will feel as if something is
crawling on their skin. Fans of Bentley Little will
appreciate David Holiday's horror tale. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted February 23, 2003
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