This is a short, creepy, and chilling of a woman who isolates herself and avoids mirrors due to a shadow that appears behind her reflection. If anyone wants to check this out it is free on smashwords.com.

Dorrie is a traumatized and troubled teen. She has done some violent and cruel things and felt no remorse for her actions. Her neighbor Mr. Frank, who all the neighborhood children are afraid of and suspect the worst about, has been watching her a lot. Dorrie assumes the worst as well, especially when he abducts her. However, when he reveals that he figured out she is possessed with a hitchhiker (how demons are referred in this novella), she learns that the rumors about him are false, and that he intends to help free her from the hitchhiker.

The novella switches a few times from 1985 from when Dorrie is 14, to 2019 when she is in her late forties. In the present day narrative she joins churches and watches the children with troubled backgrounds, as they're most at risk of becoming possesed, and does her best to help them.

This has become one of my favorite horror books about possession along with Come Closer by Sara Gran, Girl That You Fear by Azzurra Nox, My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix, and Goddess of Filth by V. Castro. Ali Seay is also now another of my favorite writers and I'll always be excited to read anything she writes. I'm super grateful to Grindhouse Press for publishing this and her novella Hysteria. 🖤

Reading this was a nice and fun experience. It felt more like erotica than romance, but I still very much enjoyed it. :)

This is a horror novella written in a documentary style. I like that the characters' names are all inspired by real people or fictional characters from other horror media. It's about an extreme haunted house that's really torture and a young woman who dies during one of the "haunts." When it reopens a year later her brother volunteers to participate in the ridiculous challenges. I really like this novella and I'm excited to read more stuff by Max Booth III.