PositiveThe Portland OregonianJoe Hill's creepy supernatural suspense novel NOS4A2 is enough to turn you off to Christmas, because Manx's very unpleasant fantasyland is anything but happy. He fed off the children's souls through his car, like the vampire in the 1922 silent classic Nosferatu, playing endless holiday music and drugging them with gingerbread scented gas … Mortal struggles ensue – mental, physical and supernatural – and the book's myriad main characters are all pulled in. Many scenes in the book are chilling, with bad things happening to several innocent souls. It's best to see this as a gripping summer read, far from the holidays, so you'll have time to bleach the Christmas imaginings of Manx's creepy inner world from your brain.
