Saturday Morning Classics: The Island - Part One #horror

Saturday Morning Classics: THE ISLAND - Part One. For the first time since the Mosiman family was massacred and their house slid into Seventh Lake twelve years before, Many Pines, an old inn on the edge of the lake, is remaining open for the winter and facing an unexpected horror. Published in 1988, The Island is a classic horror story by T.M. Wright. Every element is present – a gold mine of horror trademarks. We have a house in the lake, one in which broke free from its hold on a small island shore and is now a haunted relic submerged below the dark waters. We have characters from the big city trying to lose themselves in nature, with hopes to find some inner peace; yet in the end, only encounter something alien, something cold and distant, something hungry. We have the widow waking at midnight, and who finds herself chipping away at the ice with a pick-axe, as if to free something from its seclusion. We have a new mother holding her child and wondering why it always so cold to the touch. Be sure to visit our merchandise store at thehiddencorners.com.