The Fall Of Never
By Judy Comeau for Creature Feature Tomb of Horror

This is a voluptuously written, atmospheric fever dream of a novel that embraces the reader with a claustrophobic Gothic chill. Video documentarian Kelly Rich has found a rewarding and busy life in New York City, where she is presently interviewing an elderly paraplegic woman named Nellie Worthridge. All seems to be going well until Kelly begins to hear strange voices emanating from the raw footage, and she sees figures appear on scenes where only Nellie had been taped. These bizarre sounds and images arouse strange, fragmentary memories of her upstate New York childhood. When Kelly's sister is nearly killed in the woods adjoining the family estate, Kelly is called back to the dark, cloistered town of Spires. Most of Kelly's early memories have been long buried in her fragile psyche, particularly those leading up to and including the years spent in a mental asylum after having been committed by her parents. As her memories begin to return, the fragmentary past begins to come together with terrifying results. Kelly's return to Spires is a spooky puzzle box of secrets, a thrilling haunted house story, and a fine mystery laced with moments of high terror.