For the children, Haverhill was just their normal, boring hometown: quiet, unassuming, and living in the shadow of other places nearby.
As winter fell, bathing the town in frost and snow, an ominous, primeval shadow rose from the darkest parts of Haverhill.
Watching, lurking … grasping in ravenous fury.
When this nightmarish force takes their friend, dragging him to a cold, watery death, the children suddenly find themselves prey to a malevolent horror that has finally woken after centuries of slumber.
Dr. K's Waiting Room 
Poor Ollie, such a brilliant book.
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