The Kill

The Kill by Alan Ryan. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780523480558.

The Kill is Alan Peter Ryans second novel and first horror novel, published in 1982. It is the story of Megan Todd and Jack Casey, a young couple who flee the pressures of the city to rural Deacons Kill in the Catskills. Their home becomes the target of an ancient and invisible evil that hides in the nearby deep wood. They must join with their new friends and neighbors to find and confront the monster. This is a fine example by a World Fantasy Award-winning author of a theme explored extensively by Golden Age (70s & 80s) horror writers. The prose is quick and clean and the characters finely delineated. Necon Ebooks will be publishing all of Ryan’s horror fiction.