A review by njdarkish
Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis

2.0

This book tries to do so many spooky things at once- a stabbing, a creepy town, sinkholes, caves, missing girls, a local monster legend, a yearly folk horror movie celebration, a ventriloquist dummy-turned imaginary friend, a semi-senile grandmother, a bone-tree covered in teeth, missing possessions... I could go on. Unfortunately, only about half of these plot threads really do anything or go anywhere. At its heart there's a solid, although tropey, horror story, but it feels like the author didn't have enough faith in that story so instead we got a version that has so many horror cliches crammed into a couple hundred pages in a desperate attempt to ensure it will manage to be creepy to anybody who reads it, right?
...right?