In fact, Sam limps from an ankle he broke while living in a tree and trying to save it from being cut down for a bypass. Lennox is married to Margo, a painter/sculptor, and they have two daughters: Sylvia, a pregnant vegan who writes books about the weird stuff her father wrote about and older daughter Heather, who works in a bookstore and is divorced mother to Sam, Lennox’s grandson, who hopes to go into publishing (to us Sam would be better off saving trees from publishers). When the American professor of popular delusions hears of the madness of crowds in Brichester, he goes there and hasn’t left since-indeed, he winds up as an inmate of the Arbours, a home for the mentally bombed. The strongest invention here remains the horror out of space and time that’s centered in Goodmanswood, outside Brichester. Although this time they’re an agreeable group of interesting folks, they too fade once the fun-ride is over. As ever, Campbell places believable characters into fabulously dark situations and lets the situation become more memorable than the characters ( Midnight Sun, 1990, etc.).
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