Things take an inordinate amount of time to get going, leaving the reader stuck with a bunch of unlikeable teenage characters, reading droning passages about drag racing, petty relationship troubles, and heavy drinking and drugging. I was not impressed overall with this story. Unfortunately, someone spikes the kid's beer, and the night becomes a nightmare. A Haitian immigrant who has been cursed by a voodoo priest graduates from a Canadian high school and is rooked into attending a drunken celebration, where some yokels hope to get him loaded enough to take advantage of the wad of cash he carries around in his wallet. It's a cautionary tale about racism, the ill effects of debauchery, and revenge. But during the paperback horror boom, he had churned out a trio of scary novels for Leisure between 19. He popped up again in 2015 to publish the novel "Skinned Babies," before again vanishing into obscurity. Canadian author Mason Burgess was getting a bit of a reputation as the "Stephen King of Manitoba" in the mid 1980s before disappearing from public life.
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