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Night Games

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Last week I was cleaning out my back shelf of books and picked several to re-read, not having remembered any of them.

Night Games was a very lucky choice on my part. My copy was published in 1987 and the pages were getting quite dark. I began the first three pages, wondering if I would get absorbed into the story...and two days later I breathlessly finished the stunning last words.

Archetypal and terrifying, this highly creative story tells of one woman's journey into herself - and beyond. Never in control and never alone, she must undergo an extraordinary set of circumstances which will eventually strip her to her psychological and physical core. I believe that her primordial screams will ring in the reader's mind long after the last page is turned.

Okay, I really hate writing synopsis, but since there are no other reviews for this amazing book, as my African Gray would say, `Heeeeer we go!"

Zoe Manning is a dishrag of a woman. Her disrespectful husband and bratty two young sons are off to visit their in-laws and Zoe has somehow found the strength to remain behind for the week in order to see to her childhood house which has been standing neglected ever since her parents committed suicide some years earlier. Zoe intends to confront her ghosts, but the "ghosts" have beaten her to the punch and proceed to drag her through a wild maze of a thrill ride, beginning with a hellish party with no limits and culminating in an "actor's play" about the abuse and trauma that she had carried and buried within herself all along. Zoe is forced to see exactly who and what she is, if not the wild group of actors who act as puppeteers for the nightmare week that ensues.

I would highly recommend this novel for those who enjoy psychological terror. There are not too many copies of this out-of-print book around, and those who get a chance to read it won't regret it.