PositiveThe Sydney Morning HeraldHorror is a melodramatic genre and it takes a gifted writer to frighten the reader in any truly visceral way. It\'s hard to say quite how Andrew Michael Hurley does it but this novel is genuinely creepy. It starts out as a sort of high-culture Cold Comfort Farm without the jokes and the quaint rural traditions of the people in \'the valley\' being gently mocked, but quickly morphs into something stronger and stranger, and the reader is sucked into a world in which the devil seems simple and real.
