Only Child

by Patricia Wallace

Hannah was the prettiest little girl that the town had ever laid eyes on -- so sweet, so innocent, so angelic, so they thought. All anyone ever knew about Hannah was that she was the sole survivor of a horrible plane crash that by all rights should have killed everyone in the plane, and all Hannah got out of the horrid ordeal was a minor scratch on her forehead. Could it have been the hand of god that saved Hannah's life or a force to great too be explained? The town where Hannah lived was a quiet nice community until Hannah moved there. One by one the town's children began to disappear and the residents were paralyzed by fear, all except sweet little Hannah. She remained eerily calm and her lips curved into a terrifying smile. For Hannah's one and only wish was and always had been to be... THE ONLY CHILD

Genres: Horror, Fiction

332 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1985

Reviews

[Mikepottz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Seven year old Hannah was wearing a navy blue skirt, white blouse smeared with dirt, no emotion, no trembling, no crying, she was the lone survivor of a plane crash. The rescuers saw a flicker in her eyes, not childlike. The thought of a survivor was unimaginable. The 8 dead had no ID, there was no flight record, the plane didn't exist. A thick fog comes to town and two children disappear on their way home. Hannah spends more time looking out her window at the priests house she is temporarily staying than Michael Myers in Haddonfield. The girl for a hundred years has been staying in small secluded towns and would devastate them. Then leave. Now women are having miscarriages, a child on her birthday run-down by an out of control truck with no driver, twins taken from a locked up home in the middle of the night. A man kllis himself using a knife, the wounds gaping, flies had laid eyes and maggots squirming, he used the blood before his death to paint Hannah. Blood injected into Hannah will save the day. Another typically Bonkers Zebra book.

[Jason Vedder]

Looks familiar, the skull balloon and the synopsis makes me feel I read this. I read two Wallace books. First Twice Blessed and another that wasn't good. This may be it

[Joe Xtarr · Rating 2 out of 5]

Content warning: child endangerment, pregnancy, miscarriage

Meh. Interesting premise but a failed execution. There was never a moment when the tension felt solidly established, so the pay-off was completely deflated. The writing is super erratic, and way too many characters are introduced in a short span.

Throw in the one and only gay character as a conniving, scheming marriage-exploiter, and that pretty much settles this as garbage.

[Annette Vecellio · Rating 2 out of 5]

Seemed interesting to start, but then it dragged.

[Adam Clark · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some interesting elements but never actually delivers. Rare moments; single pages, paragraphs that show real promise and then… nothing.

[Xssa · Rating 3 out of 5]

a pretty good horror novel. a plane crashes and the only surivor is a little girl. who could not help her, so innocent, so cute, killing the other childern with dark powers? even though you know who the killer is, finding where she came from, how, is still pretty good. overall a great book, good n for a quick read.

[Arwen Fowler-jonsson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short and very spooky and scary. Loved this one but it only took me a few hours to read it!!

[Mike Howlett · Rating 3 out of 5]

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