Richard K. Wilson's Reviews > The Flayed One

This book was SO perfectly written, narrated and told.....that the ONLY thing wrong with it was that it is too short......I could have gone for another 4 or 5 hours! I LOVED THIS!

I have been reading Horror and classic literature for well over 50 years....and this has got to be one of the BEST coming of age, horrific and beautifully tragic tales that I will place right next to 'Summer of Night', 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' and 'Boys Life'! When I found out after i just finished the audiobook; that the author was a female....it blew my mind! The audio book is listed at just a bit over 4 hours....and in my opinion; this was the ONLY bad thing about it. It was just too damned short! I wanted this tale of 'the monster in the woods' to go on for at least another 3 hours. Being an openly gay man and lover of all things horror, this tale could have been like all the other new crap out there these days, but it wasn't. What WAS the supposed 'flayed creature' that was lurking in the woods? What happened to the 50 plus missing people starting from the 1950's and as young as 5 years old? When you meet H.D. Wards this story took off and just got better and better. These 3 characters of Wards, Mia Rose Ellis and Dorothy May will be 3 that I go back to read their stories again and again. Bravo to the author L.A. Detwiler for this achievement!!! I have no idea where someone quoted this as being 'Homophobic....?' Why? I really don't think that they even read it.

This will be a new book that I praise and highly recommend to anyone who loves a great, creepy as hell, tale of the monster in the woods that eveyone thinks does NOT exist! Loved this.

5 Screams