Alice Keene is waiting for her husband
Nicholas to return home form his trip to Atlantic City. As the hour grows
late, Alice becomes more and more
concerned. The roads are wet and slippery, it’s snowing and
he should have been home hours ago. When the phone rings and the
police tell Alice that they found Nicholas’
car, where it seemed to have drove off the 34th Street Bridge, Alice rushes to the crash site. Alice learns that Nicholas’ body wasn’t
found in the car and the police believe it was swept away by the sea. Alice holds out hope that Nicholas walked away and
is on his way home.
Later that night as Alice is still dealing
with the shock that her husband may be lost to her forever, she hear hers a knock on her
door. When Alice opens the door, there stands Nicholas, wet
and cold, but very much there. In the days that follow, Alice notices that Nicholas has changed. He doesn’t eat, he doesn’t sleep and he has become obsessed
with the manuscript he had been working on. Alice feels that she doesn’t know her husband
anymore, and when she receives a phone call from their friend Phillip, telling her he must
see her as soon as possible to talk about Nicholas, Alice decides to meet with him. Alice soon realizes that things are not what they
seem…
The first word that comes to mind while
reading THE REMIGRANTS is chilling. Joseph E. Wright writes an
amazing horror tale that will scare a reader to death and have the urge to run as he
brings forth our most primitive fears about death and the life thereafter.
THE REMIGRANTS is intense, bone-chilling and fascinating. The
feelings that ran through me while reading this tale, the feeling that I didn’t want
to read it, held me captive and I had to finish it. This
is one horror tale that I can not recommend enough; it’s one of the best one’s I
have read in a long time. Full of shocking surprises and amazing
intrigue is Joseph E. Wright’s THE REMIGRANTS.
Reviewed by Tracey West for The Road
to Romance
November 7, 2003 |
