![]() As the story proper begins we are introduced to Nathan when he decides to move into his deceased father’s house in rural Pennsylvania with his wife Maddie and teenage son Oliver. There are TWO prologues in this book one details the execution of a serial killer in the electric chair while the second touches upon a strange meeting between a physically scarred young boy and a man hunting pheasant in an isolated field. There’s a reason why Stephen King has millions of fans – and speaking of him, fans of his books will love The Book of Accidents. The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig is a great big tome of a novel that I hesitated diving into because of its length, but now that I’ve been fully ensconced in its dark world(s) and come back out again, I realized that it gave me a better appreciation of the horror genre in general. ![]() This is my second-to-last Halloween book that I’ve got on my shelf, and now that I’ve been reading horror for a few straight weeks, I’m feeling a bit sensitive to all the violence I’ve been exposed to, but I’m also more attuned to the critiques of society that this genre often employs. ![]()
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