![]() There, despite Becky's premonitions of disaster and despite the pursuit (unknown to them) of the Goblins, who are on a horrific killing spree as they race after the couple, the Joneses hope to heal the wounds to Becky's psyche and to their marriage caused by her recent rape: seems that Becky, a schoolteacher, was raped by student and chief Goblin Clyde Edson, who then hung himself in his jail cell. ![]() The Joneses first appear as they're driving to an isolated cabin in east Texas. Once past Koontz's kindly gush, it's clear that, for Lansdale, plot is king: his protagonists-young marrieds Monty and Becky Jones-exist only as pawns to be buffeted about in the evil winds conjured up by Lansdale via the agency of ""the Goblins""-a villainous band of crazed teen-agers. Written before his recently published (1976) and highly eccentric Westerns (Dead in the West, Magic Wagon), Lansdale's hard-driving, ultraviolent, and utterly formulaic horror novel is most reminiscent of the early whiplash-fast novels of top terror-maven Dean Koontz-so it's no surprise that Koontz himself ushers in this tale of demonic juvenile delinquency with a warm and generous introduction. ![]()
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