The Shelter - James Everington
"Everington is excellent at evoking a mounting sense of unease, turning to dread, that close, oppressive feeling when everything is still and ordinary, but the whole world is filled with the sense that something huge and terrible is just about to happen... The tension builds and builds, and then terror ensues, and that's the second success of this impressive novella."
"It kept me hooked all the way through and deals with the subject of how guilt can change the course of a person's life. An interesting and thought provoking read."
"This could be a tale of madness or redemption. Either way, you won't want to put it down."
The blurb:
It's a long, drowsy summer at the end of the 1980s, and Alan Dean and three of his friends cross the fields behind their village to look for a rumoured WW2 air raid shelter. Only half believing that it even exists beyond schoolboy gossip, the four boys nevertheless feel an odd tension and unease. And when they do find the shelter, and go down inside it, the strange and horrifying events that follow will test their adolescent friendships to breaking point, and affect the rest of their lives... A horror novella of 15.5k words, plus an author's afterword.
cheers
James