Review: STONE HILL: SHADOWS RISING by Dean Rasmussen

4 Spooky Stars

The horrors that have overtaken the small, gentle, community of Stone Hill, Minnesota,  make my skin crawl, and I refer to both the otherworldly elements and the sheer unadulterated human evil. A formerly "normal" small mostly-farming community has become--well, at the risk of trope, a portal to Hades. Or, not exactly that specific location,  but somewhere in another dimension, allowing horrific entities to cross over, abduct, terrorize, feed. What is under the apple orchard [shudder] boggles the mind....but does create a far-reaching territory for our "heroes" to explore in future installments. Meanwhile,  the fascist totalitarian control of Stone Hill (monstrously in the name of religion) seems to be reminiscent of Nazi Germany,  specifically how the non-combatant civilians were terrorized into submission by the controlling government run by the demagogue Adolf Hitler.  But even Hitler couldn't match the Denouement of STONE HILL: SHADOWS RISING, an event of jaw-dropping terror,  a real cliffhanger...