In an afterword, the author describes how this book came to be. He was looking for a good horror read, scanned the shelves, read synopses, yada yada yada, and still couldn't come up with anything that reached out and grabbed him. So he decided to entertain himself & write the novel he wanted to read. I can feel his pain...normally I work very hard to find just the right horror novel to read. Demon Night, provides a small edge of suspense which I like in a good horror novel, and it definitely kept my interest.

Brief plot summary (no spoilers)
The book can be divided into three parts. In the first part, we meet the main character of the book, Eric Matthews, nee Langren, who is a drifter and who suffers from violent (and I do mean violent) nightmares. Eric wakes up from one nightmare in which he hears his father telling him to come home. Well, Eric's dad has been dead since Eric was 8, so he knows that he must drift a little more toward where he was born & lived until he was 8 -- a little town in Maine. We also meet the rest of the characters in the town.

In part two of this novel, weird things start to happen. Tempers are flaring, there is a bizarre murder/suicide, and other weird happenings. All of these events seem to coincide with the discovery and desecration of an ancient chamber in one of the town's caves. No one really knows what the heck is going on except Eric.

Obviously part three contains the climax of this book, but I don't want to go into that here just in case someone else decides to read this book.

I must have missed what the sealed up room in the church had to do with anything & I was kind of disappointed there, but the rest was pretty good. Considering it was a first effort, he didn't do too badly. ( )