Binding: Hardcover
Description: Old - school horror. Stephen King The Exorcist meets Lord of the Flies in Boys in the Valley a brilliant coming - of - age tale from award - winning author Philip Fracassi. An Esquire Best Horror Book of 2023! A sublimely chilling story. Library Journal Starred review St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Early twentieth century in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here under the watchful eyes of several priests thirty boys work learn and worship. Peter Barlow orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder has made a new life here. As he approaches adulthood he has friends a future. a family. Then late one stormy night a group of men arrive at their door one of whom is badly wounded occult symbols carved into his flesh. His death releases an ancient evil that spreads like sickness infecting St. Vincent's and the children within. Soon boys begin acting differently forming groups. Taking sides. Others turn up dead. Now Peter and those dear to him must choose sides of their own each of them knowing their lives and perhaps their eternal souls are at risk.
Title: Boys In The Valley
Author(s): Fracassi Philip
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250879035
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 7/11/2023
Category: Horror & Ghost Stories