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The Keep by F. Paul Wilson
3.0
adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

 A less-than-chilling but thought provoking monster stalks a Nazi-occupied keep. The keep's owners, an ailing Jewish man and his daughter, are summoned to help explain and confront the entity. The more they learn about their predator, the more religious and moral questions they ask themselves. Like Blatty's revised Excorist, The Keep plumbs the philosophical quandaries that arise from the existence of an undying presence of evil. The ending gets a bit too sword-and-dragon for my taste as well as the entire character of Glenn, but I really appreciate this kind of approach to horror.