You Don't Scare Me

by John Farris

Book Overview

Jubilation County, Georgia, Ten Years Ago: Chase Emrick was fourteen when her mother married Crow Tillman. Maybe it was his creepy name, or his sinister good looks; maybe it was the glass eye with the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312850646
• ISBN13: 9780312850647
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Good Book, But Let Your Characters Breathe, Man!

I love John Farris and have read all his books. He's a master of dialogue and that's apparent again in his latest. My only gripe is that he almost goes overboard in the level of brutality his heroine must endure in this one. For heaven's sake--the bad guy is just so unbelievably bad, I was waiting (and waiting) for him to get his comeuppance. I'm still waiting.

Suberb horror thriller

As she attends Yale University as a math major working to prove the existence of a dimension outside of the relative reality of ours, Chase Emrick knows how close she came to die as a teen. Her abusive disturbing stepfather Crow Tillman abducted her with the intention of a murder-suicide for some eerie motive. He failed as she escaped, but he killed himself. However though a decade has passed, Chase knows somehow Crow's evil eye still seeks her from beyond. She is alone because of him as bad things accidentally happen to anyone who tries to get close to her as he still plans to possess her. Chase thinks she has found the coordinates to what she calls Netherworld where she believes Crow lives, that is if a dead person can live. Desperate to destroy the serpent, the frightened Chase journeys to Crow's turf to challenge him with her soul on the line. The opening scenes on earth are some of the best horror description in years as everyone will feel the creepiness of Crow when he lived and the malevolence of this creature when he died as well as the astral-spatial geometry of Netherlands. Once Chase begins her trek into Netherworld, the story line retains its excitement, but loses some of its uniqueness. Still John Farris will have his audience hooked in a one sitting thriller in which the mouse insists to the cat (and herself) YOU DON'T SCARE ME when she knows she should be very scared. Harriet Klausner