Other Names: Heather Graham Pozzessere, Shannon Drake.

And just as we always kept going back to movie houses for more, readers won’t be able to put this one down until the last page is turned. The book should come with a tub of buttery popcorn, a large Coke and maybe even 3-D glasses, not only because this story is cinematic in scope, but because it is the kind of story readers used to delightedly lose themselves in at the matinee, back when horror masters like Vincent Price and Peter Lorre tried to scare us out of our wits. Most of all, The Hidden is first class entertainment. Readers will happily lose themselves in Graham’s capable storytelling, find themselves rooting for Scarlet and Diego, as well as the rest of the Krewe, even as the author continues to carefully ratchet up the suspense. It blends love story, mystery, and horror into a tale that is never gory, but always suspenseful, and in many ways even enlightening. The Hidden is a multi-layered novel that is reminiscent of the best of Poe, Shelley, Stoker and even King. The Hidden is obviously Graham’s love letter to King, and even though she emulates his macabre style, she unleashes a new legend upon her own devoted readers.

Instead, she focuses on the fictitious Conway Ranch, just down the road from the Stanley, and infuses it with its own dark past and ominous specters. This connection could be enough to set our nerves on edge, but Graham doesn’t rely on ground previously covered to draw the noose tight about her reader’s throats.

She brings in familiar sights like the Stanley Hotel, which most of us recognize as the scene of Stephen King’s The Shining, even if we don’t recognize it by name. She lures us in with a perplexing mystery and keeps us guessing until the end, throwing in plenty of red herrings along the way.Īs usual, Graham deftly utilizes setting to raise the stakes, and this time out the action takes place in the shadows of the cold, snow capped Rocky Mountains. Here, Heather Graham is caught doing what she does best. The Hidden is a fun, chilling read filled with old family legends spooky, inexplicable clues a large, colorful cast of possible suspects and plenty of things that go bump in the night.

The Hidden by Heather Graham