![]() I don't think you will be able to put it down, once you start. This is a brilliant book, full of nervous suspense. Who is on the other end of the telephone? And will it help if Denny speaks to the caller? It's a rite of passage, to emerge from underneath the shadow of his father's misfortune, which has darkened all his childhood. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker. And somehow Denny wants this year to be different. But this year, Denny is sixteen years old - the same age that his father was when the disaster happened. Did not actually hear his father, but felt him proceeding slowly, reluctantly, but going all the same.ĭenny Colbert never answers the telephone. and heard his father padding wearily down the hallway. Raising himself on one elbow, he listened, counting the rings, pausing after each one. Please make it a wrong number, he prayed. Fans turned lazily in the bedroom windows, fans that did not blur the sound of the telephone, incessant and insistent. In the final hours of a lingering heat wave. The first call usually came some time in October, a week or two before the anniversary. Instantly alert, he thought: it's beginning again, but too early - much too early this year. He looked towards the digital clock: 3.18 in vivid scarlet numbers. The ringing telephone blistered the night, stripping him of sleep, like a bandage torn from flesh. ![]() But as John -Paul grows up and marries and has a son of his own, the guilt is borne jointly by all his family. You might wonder why John-Paul does not just move entirely away from the area and try to start a new life somewhere else - I think he probably feels that he owes it to the stricken relatives and survivors to be available for punishment, down through the years. He receives hate mail, telephone calls at all times of the day and night, and other vague or specific threats. A mistake.īut although he was subsequently cleared of any fault in the disaster, his name is permanently linked in the minds of the bereaved and the survivors. Unfortunately, minutes before the collapse, John-Paul had lit a book of matches in order to inspect the balcony. He is at work there one evening when the balcony collapses and crushes 22 children who are attending a hallowe'en party. Into The Night - The Crisis of Western Civilization A book by Ivy Scarborough Twenty-first-century Western man is living through the reprise of an ancient and epic historical tragedythe paroxysms of a dying civilization ApInto the Night is a powerful, unflinching review of Western civilization’s pilgrimage into a new Dark Age. John-Paul Colbert is just sixteen years old when he is implicated in a disaster in a local theatre. ![]() That is what happens to the Colbert family in this story. The important thing to recognise about guilt is that you have to live with it, for ever.Īnd, of course, the guilt can spread, like a stain on a clean white tablecloth. ![]()
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