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The Hunting Season

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YOU DON'T GO ALONE INTO MAD RIVER MOUNTAIN... Everything would be okay in the country, thought April Bernard, in her new summer home.Here her children would be happy and safe, and she could spend time with the man who had saved her life and given her love. Here she could further her career by researching a clan of remote inbred hill people, living in their own isolated world. She had nothing to fear in Mad River Mountain... Nothing that is until the creatures she was studying strayed from the dark woods.Horrible beings with stunted bodies, pumpkin faces, deformed in flesh with a thirst for hot blood. Tourist season is over, hunting season has begun...~AN INCREDIBLY ORIGINAL AND TERRIFYING BOOK~BE PREPARED TO LOOSE SOME SLEEP OVER THIS ONE!

This book is the third book I've read by John Coyne and I'm sorry to say I was not impressed. This book starts off great building slowly and creating an ominous atmosphere...creepy! but by the time I got to the middle of the book I started to get angry, instead of enjoying myself I spent more time critiquing where the story was going and how events were being executed. John Coyne is not a bad writer he just can't hold my interest for an entire novel. This idea has been done before but more successfully, Jack Ketchum's book 'Offseason' which is about a group of young people who visit a friend in Maine, who rent a summer house in the woods. Unbeknownst to them their is a wild inbred family that hunts humans for food and they're watching the house!, what follows is the most savage, harrowing, gut wrentching, ultra violent, goriest fight for survival story that has ever been written and it was so controversial when first released in 1981 that it nearly destroyed this writers career. Offseason is the scariest book I've ever read, it's so brutally realistic and horrific it's beyond your wildest imagination. Unfortunately The Hunting Season is none of the above, it's a mild lukewarm version(with a few good scares)for people with a delicate constitution.

I read this book about 8 or 9 years ago, and after passing it from friend to friend-it eventually disappeared. Everyone that read it loved it as much as I did, and I've been looking for it ever since!

i read The Hunting Season in 1995 and i loved it. The library i read the book at even took it off the shelves, but the book was amazing, although it has been considered a flop. I am desperatly looking for this book, it disappeared just like the people in the story.

I read the book in 1982 and was so impressed with it I let a friend read it, I NEVER SAW IT AGAIN. Its a shame its not in print anymore I'm sure most readers would like it. I have looked in used book stores for the book with no luck