by Matthew J. Costello
1987, Zebra Books
Someone's snatching up small town residents and keeping them captive in their basement. The bookstore owning mayor and a big city detective don't accomplish much until a Holocaust survivor anthropologist clues them in.
Costello does well with his characters and creating a sense of dread, but it was clear at one point that he was making it up as he went and had no idea himself what the menace was and had to rush things at the end. And when in doubt, Cthulu.
This may be the most 80s horror novel I've read - it reads like a modern period piece that was trying way too hard to establish the setting, mentioning pop music, MTV, Mr. T, etc.
Good writing, though the horror parts were sparse and rushed.
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