Simon Rankin is a priest struggling with a
wavering faith. After losing his wife to another man and having his children
disown him, Rankin is at the crossroads. This is where we find him on his
latest mission to rid the world of demons at a haunted (do demon’s haunt?)
mansion.
The exorcism doesn’t go well and he’s soon
questioning his belief in the higher power; is he strong enough to believe? Did
he believe hard enough? Did he use holy water or tap water in the exorcism
(that’s in jest but you can start to get a feel for the book from this…)?
Fast forward and Rankin is now deeply in love
with a women who accidently drove her car into his. After knowing each other for a total sum of five
minutes, Andrea is paying Rankin’s way, supplying food, accommodation and her
womanly delights – anything to pave the priests way to enlightenment.
The madly in-love couple then find themselves
embarking on a holy mission to exercise a demon who is terrorising the
townsfolk in a long abandoned mine. From the depths of the darkness comes a
maddening story sticky-taped together by a character who is just as strange as
the plot pieces themselves.
Author Guy N Smith is one of my go-to authors
for horror. His books are short, straight to the point, and generally
entertaining. Entombed is no different, only that it’s chock block full of
crazy; somewhere along the line, plot points were meshed together without a lot
of rhyme or reason; satanic cults, creepy kids, ghosts, man-eating beasts, and
Satan himself all intertwined without really coming together in a logical way –
but that’s part of the fun I guess.
Entombed isn’t high end horror literature,
rather a sugar-high of a fast food snack for the mind. Don’t take
it too seriously and you’ll have a lot of fun with this one.
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