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Smart, scary, sexy, and gorgeously written to boot., Evans ratchets up the suspense at an expert pace.

. Evans heaps an assortment of gothic embellishments onto this coming-of-age narrative., Chilling-to-the-bone. . . . Deliciously frightening, The White Devil is a literary scare story in an earlier tradition before vampires ruled the day, or at least the genre., crackling literary mystery. . . . Harrow itself contains Shirley Jackson levels of gloomy passages and dark secrets. Evans heaps an assortment of gothic embellishments onto this coming-of-age narrative., Demonic possession, the provocative topic of Justin Evans's first novel, A Good and Happy Child, takes on a literary twist and a sexual jolt in The White Devil. And he's written a wonderfully creepy book., Demonic possession, the provocative topic of Justin Evans's first novel, A Good and Happy Child, takes on a literary twist and a sexual jolt in The White Devil. Justin Evans' writing is crisp, his storytelling vigorous, his sense of the uncanny pitch perfect. I loved it.' (David Liss, author of The Devil's Company ), The White Devil is part ghost story, part murder mystery, part coming-of-age tale, part romance. Both a thoughtful and learned homage to the ghost story, and a clever and compelling rethinking of the genre, this is an amazing, frightening, and believable novel.

Deliciously frightening, The White Devil is a literary scare story in an earlier tradition before vampires ruled the day, or at least the genre., ' The White Devil is a page-turning tour de force.

Want a good English ghost story to read by the fire on a cold winter night? gathers you in lovingly, then takes you in a strangler's grip with its escalating horrors., Want a good English ghost story to read by the fire on a cold winter night? gathers you in lovingly, then takes you in a strangler's grip with its escalating horrors., Chilling-to-the-bone.