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Title: An excellent horror novel
Review: This novel is a disturbing tale about a perverse form of Christianity practiced in the mountains of Virginia. The sineater (an old Irish fantasy if memory services) is a man who voluntarily soaks up the evil men do, takes it unto himself at death. When the sineater's son goes to school some weird events take place and the loons think Judgement Day is nigh. Massie is from in Virginia so the atmosphere is tense and the descriptions of locale and population tight and precise as the son, a boy named Joel, tries to find out what is actually going on all around him. Ms. Massie won the 1993 Stoker Award for First Novel for Sineater.
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