Mischief

The Hollow #3

by Christopher Golden, Ford Lytle Gilmore

Mark Hyde’s bad temper has darkened his life with moments of violence and troubles with the law, but he’s tried very hard to put all of that behind him, tried to be a better friend and a better person. Most of the time he seems to succeed, but even Aimee and Shane Lancaster, the new kids in town, have seen what Hyde is like when things go wrong for him.

After a string of violent incidents — when Hyde gives Shane a brutal beating, or when he mouths off to the local authorities, or when he vandalizes a few lockers at the high school — even the people who care most about him begin to worry that he’s falling back on his old ways. But Hyde’s best friend Jekyll swears that there are other reasons for his behavior and that he will calm down soon enough.

When someone starts pulling dangerous pranks and causing thousands of dollars in damage and inflict grievous injury, it’s Mark Hyde that the authorities are looking for. And when the problems get worse, when the vandalism escalates to theft and the pranks lead to deaths instead of a few injuries, it’s Mark Hyde the police intend to take down for the crimes, unless Aimee and Shane can find the real culprits.

But Hyde isn’t making it any easier for them. It’s almost as if he’s out to prove the cops right. As if he expects to get blamed for everything going on in town. A prank is a prank, but the troubles in Sleepy Hollow have turned fatal, and it looks like Mark Hyde is taking the fall for the mischief.

Genres: Horror, Classics, Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal

147 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 16, 2006

About the author

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN has been called “the king of the horror-thriller.” The New York Times bestselling, multi-award-winning storyteller has made his mark in many mediums, as a writer of novels, screenplays, animation, audio dramas, and comics, and as an editor of landmark horror anthologies. His work has been published in dozens of languages around the world. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Audie Award, he has been nominated for others, including the British Fantasy Award. His best-known novels include Road of Bones, The House of Last Resort, All Hallows, and his latest, Carry Me to My Grave. He lives in Massachusetts, where he watches too many movies and eats too much chocolate.

Reviews

[Niko · Rating 4 out of 5]

Way more brutal than I expected

[WhatShouldIRead]

Sad to note that over the course of the 3 books I've read, the content has deteriorated with each installment. The beginning of this one started off pretty much the same as the previous book, then went on to teenage angst through much of what I was able to read. This was neither interesting nor well written. I think this author writes horror very well but the relationship stuff, not so much. It almost felt that after introducing the characters and situations it created in the first Hollow book, the author then ran out of ideas to keep up the momentum, and that is unfortunate.

In view of this I think I'll skip the final book in the series.

[Hillary · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book left me the most unsatisfied of the whole series so far. It's okay.

[Jenn]

Fun book, quick read. Nothing deep just fun and clean.