My dog has coughed-up scarier stuff than this. The writing wreaks of high school literature class hackage, there is NO character development and the author apparently cannot resist interjecting blatant, clunky messages about spirituality that destroy any semblance of pacing and suspense.If you are so unfortunate as to have purchased a copy of this book, do yourself a favor and instead of reading it simply leave it in a glass case overnight with a copy of "The Shining" and when you wake-up it will be gone. Oh, and "The Shining" will have appended a nice 100 page prologue written by unicorns. HORRIFIC, SCURRY unicorns.