The Sibling

by Elleston Trevor

Teenaged sisters Madlen and Debra hope to find sanctuary from their abusive parents when they enter the convent, but they discover nightmarish horror instead

Genres: Horror

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First published December 15, 1994

About the author

Author has published other books under the names: Adam Hall, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Trevor Dudley-Smith, Roger Fitzalan, Howard North, Simon Rattray, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith, Lesley Stone.

Author Trevor Dudley-Smith was born in Kent, England on February 17, 1920. He attended Yardley Court Preparatory School and Sevenoaks School. During World War II, he served in the Royal Air Force as a flight engineer. After the war, he started writing full-time. He lived in Spain and France before moving to the United States and settling in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1946 he used the pseudonym Elleston Trevor for a non-mystery book, and later made it his legal name. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Adam Hall, Simon Rattray, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Roger Fitzalan, Howard North, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith, and Lesley Stone. Even though he wrote thrillers, mysteries, plays, juvenile novels, and short stories, his best-known works are The Flight of the Phoenix written as Elleston Trevor and the series about British secret agent Quiller written as Adam Hall. In 1965, he received the Edgar Allan Poe Award by Mystery Writers of America and the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for The Quiller Memorandum. This book was made into a 1967 movie starring George Segal and Alec Guinness. He died of cancer on July 21, 1995.

Reviews

[The Local Spooky Hermit · Rating 4 out of 5]

While not as wild of a ride the first book was, I think I liked this one more. Idk maybe its the whole nun and creepy convent setting. (Boy i thought that pagan satanic dead baby bodies area was gonna come back and be used or explained or something but nah.. WHAT WAS GOING ON THERE BOOK?????!! Everyone that comes across it is like "huh.. thats creepy a bunch a human baby bones, at a nun convent in a hidden area laid out for a ritual.... so anyways-") Its not as big of a climax as the first or a deep lore subconscious past life mixing in with current day.. (and no weird incest 👍)
But thats one hell of a rushed ending...not a bad ending but leaves it a bit open to wth Debra is gonna do now.
I headcannon Debra saying "well fuck this" and leaving to live with her birth mom getting homeschooled and maybe dating Jeff. Coming by the convent to see Madlen as "cathy". While somewhere in south America or something Nicola writes letters to the girls while on the beach sipping mixed drinks and flirting with hot guys. And convent life and therapy works out super for Madlen.

[Karen Berriman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting book

[Karen Berriman]

Did not read this book