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The Prison
Author: R. Patrick Gates

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Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780786016396 - ISBN-10: 0786016396
Publication Date: 11/1/2004
Pages: 429

Book Description:
The New Rome Correctional Institute, better known as "The Hill" in the Massachusetts town that surrounds it, wasn't always a prison. It was once an asylum for the mentally ill, where therapies were thinly veiled tortures, and the afflicted rarely recovered. But the institution's most notorious incident occurred when the patients turned against their captors, setting many of the buildings on fire, and killing numerous staff members. For nearly twenty years it sat vacant before its reconstruction to house criminals... Tim Saget is fresh from the correctional officers' training facility as the newest recruit to walk the halls of The Hill. But he's been there before - in disturbing dreams that have him wandering through the building's eerie corridors. Even stranger is the increasingly erratic behavior of the inmates, who appear to be suffering varying degrees of madness. As a dense, suffocating fog rolls in to enshroud the facility, Tim begins to uncover The Hill's darkest secrets - one more horrific than the next. It is now terrifyingly clear that the prisoners are channeling the spirits of the patients who once lived there. They want freedom just as much as their human hosts do - and they believe Tim is their key...

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3 member(s) found this review helpful.

This is the first book I've read by R. Patrick Gates but it won't be the last. "The Prison" is a MUST READ for horror fans! Not your average ghost stories, these spirits do more than just "go bump in the night"! The author provides plenty of visual descriptions that wreak havoc on the imagination. Several scenes had me cringing as I read them and once or twice I had to put down the book and take a mental break after a particular scene left me thinking, "Oh no he didn't!" But he does and he does it well!

I would definitely recommend "The Prison" to anyone looking for a sleepless night or two. The characters are great, the plot is amazing and "Good Old Doc"....absolutely depraved!

Definitely not for the weak stomached or faint of heart...


3 member(s) found this review helpful.

There are some pretty descriptive parts of torture and at the end some really gross things. The story was very good and finished quite nicely.


Rikki M. (PrincessMorrigan) reviewed 8/7/2007...
2 member(s) found this review helpful.

I have read this book 4 times,and every time I have loved every page of it. A very disturbing tale, this book is a must read if you like ghost stories.


2 member(s) found this review helpful.

this author gives king a run for his money couldn'tput it down great read.



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