Title: Old fashioned thriller offers a few chills, but falls short
Product review: The Owlsfane Horror is a ghost story breathing the last gasp of the sevenites. An engaged couple spends a terror filled week at the ski resort of Owlsfane, Vermont. Author "Duffy Stein" (a pseudonym for Mel Burger) keeps the pace slower than the gradual shifting of the earth's plates, allowing for lots of atmosphere and character development, but it drains the fear factor as characters begin behaving stupidly to simply inch the story forward one notch after another. And an Audrey Rose inspired town hall meeting sequence setting up the climax is simply jaw dropping in its sheer ludicrousness. At a bulky 474 pages, this novel needs a hefty 100 page trimming. Not a classic, and not exactly boring, it's just disappointing.
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