Double Walker

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Double Walker by Michael W. Conrad

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This horror tried to delve into the original intent of stories about the faeries: they were terrifying. Cully and his pregnant wife, Gemma are in Scotland to get in one last child-free trip. They stop in a small town and decide to trail-walk up a mountain (with associations to faerie lore). Cully is a giant jerk about it when Gemma can't go any further and leaves his pregnant wife there to wait on him because 'they'll never be here again and he's not missing out.'

This fateful, selfish decision pulls the trigger on the rest of the story. He returns to find her prostrate on the ground speaking in what might be Gaelic and she loses the baby. The rest of the story becomes is she grieving this immense loss or did the fey folk switch her out for a changeling?

And then the gruesome murders begin to happen. Cully and Gemma mostly drink and pull further and further apart and the narrative drive is handed over to two detectives, an older local man and a young city hotshot who can't understand why they're doing nothing. The older guy basically says this happens from time to time and if you interfere with the fey, it'll only get worse. It'll run its course and be over with.

The story runs on those rails to the end. It was good and the art served the story. On the the other hand, it was very hard to connect to these characters.



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