A Small Dark Place

by Martin Schenk

Book Overview

Without jobs, without savings, without hope, the Wiley family has fallen on hard times. Until they hear the story of a little girl who slipped down an abandoned mine. Americans respond with prayers.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345430476
• ISBN13: 9780345430472
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

They were left with no other choice but to.....

The book is incredibly fast-paced and action-packed. The writing is vivid, and I found myself completely hooked by the story as a whole. Also, the author knows how to make his readers gag with the macabre details😅🤢🤮 The ending is a bit disappointing and has a feeling like you could've done something better than that.😑😑😑

Great book, from beginning to end.

A great book from the beginning to the very end. A poor family in Kansas with nothing to go on in their lives decides to stage a fall of their 8-year old son into a 90-feet deep shaft, so that they will get media coverage and support from people all over US. Instead of the son, their even younger daughter falls in. When she is rescued, she doesn't return as the same person, she brings something back with her. The family gets rich and Andromeda returns to avenge her fate along punish those who benefited from her tragedy. Dark, creepy, scary, gory... one hell of a book.

Very Enjoyable book.

I'm not sure how I even got this book - I think maybe it was with some other ones I found at a yard sale. I liked Schenk's writing style and story line so much that as soon as I was finished with his book, I checked Ebay to see what else he had written. I was disappointed to find none.

great story

i liked the book alot but i could have come up with a better endind despite that it was really good goes into good detail.

When is his next book coming out?

Loved "A Small Dark Place". Just checked to see if Martin Schenk has any more books I can buy and ended up here. Found my comments from a year and a half ago but no new book. Now that Stephen King is all busted up, I hope Schenk has another one coming soon! From your "number-one fan" ("Misery" reference).

Terrific! I was both tantalized and terrified.

A quick, compelling read that I found extremely well-written. The author has a good, clear voice that sheds light on the terror lurking within "A Small Dark Place." Even though I was creeped out by the evil antagonist (I don't want to give anything away so I won't say who or what it is), I was also weirdly attracted to (him/her/it). This multi-dimensionality of character made the tale so much more believable and interesting for me. The plot moved swiftly and sucked me in, and at one point even made the hair stand up on the back of my neck (and I don't even have hair on the back of my neck)! I also really liked the author's occasional injections of wry humor, which were delightfully on target. I look forward to reading more from this demented new talent.