Search - Darkfall

Eh. It's Christmastime, so that added to my intrigue for this book about a horrible event on Christmas Eve. The first 10 or 15%, where the plot was being set up, was very enjoyable. It went downhill after that. It was OK, but far from great.

This was my first Stephen Laws. I've got one more in my TBR. Darkfall wasn't so bad that I wont' read the other one I've got (The Wyrm), but it also wasn't good enough that I'll look for more by Stephen Laws.

On Christmas Eve, dozens of office parties are taking place throughout an enormous high-rise. The ominous storm on the horizon does nothing to diminish the revelers' spirits-until a deafening thunderclap sounds and all the residents in the building vanish. All, that is, except the slightly intoxicated superintendent manning the boiler room. Laws's enthralling story, first published in the U.K. in 1992, moves at lightning speed in the first act, but once the story is established, it turns into a fascinating Clive Barker-esque nightmare where the walls, doors and floors come to life and absorb human tissue, creating a whole new life form.

Lightning storms are deadly! Everyone disappears from an office building while celebrating on Christmas Eve. A severed hand is found in an office! Great horror story.