Scott Nicholson The Farm

The Farm

Scott Nicholson

Pinnacle, Jul 2006, $6.99

ISBN: 0786017120

After realizing that her husband and their twelve years old daughter are doing drugs Katy Logan divorces her spouse and tries to make a new life with her now drug free child Jett. At a convention Katy meets Gordon Smith who is giving an anthropological lecture. They see each other afterward, soon marry and relocate on David's farm in Solom in the Carolina Blue Ridge Mountains.

Katy smells lavender, the scent that Gordon's late first wife used just before she was beheaded in a car accident, almost everywhere in the house. The goats multiply at an astronomically rate while eating stones from a desecrated part of the town. Jett sees a scarecrow acting strange almost human and concludes reality is weirder than being high. Gordon's ancestor Harmon was killed several centuries ago by preachers when he began blood sacrifices. He returns at times and now plans to fight the scarecrow in a confrontation that could kill Katy and Jett.

Scott Nicholson is one of the new breed of horror writers who have taken up the mantle of King and Koontz with his modern day gothic horror thrillers that are chillingly filled with things not of this world visiting our realm with malicious intent. Katy and Jett are anchors to reality as readers can understand these characters and feel for them as they face a supernatural crisis. Leave the lights on after reading the FARM as you will hear every bump in the night.

Harriet Klausner