Scott Nicholson's 'The Home' is a gripping read

 In “The Home” Scott Nicholson continues to create stories that grasp readers and clutch them tightly in hands tainted with the chill of the grave.

“The Home,” Nicholson’s fourth novel, was originally released in 2005, but has recently been available via free e-book downloads in anticipation of a possible feature film.  Whether one paid to purchase the book or received a free download, it’s well worth the read – just make sure you leave the lights on afterward.

“The Home” is the story of Freeman Mills, a young man transitioned to Wendover Home, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a familiar setting to Nicholson’s readers. Wendover, a former mental institution, now serves as a home for troubled youth. Mills is certainly troubled. Not only was he diagnosed with anti-social behavior and suicidal tendencies, his father, a noted psychiatrist who wound up in an insane asylum, used him as a subject in his experiments. Mills, who possesses the ability to read minds, finds himself challenged by the mysterious resident physician Dr. Kracowski, who has a taste for “alternative” therapies in the mysterious Room 13. Those experiments on the youths at Wendover Home leave them clinically dead for short period, and when they are revived they have been altered in a number of ways, including the development of psychic powers.

In his novels Nicholson turns the idyllic Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina into a region where fear rises from every hollow and horrors lurk behind every pine-covered ridge. It started in 2002 with “The Red Church” and the trend continues in “The Home.”

Nicholson crafted a tight work that quickly draws the reader into a blended world of science-fiction and horror that might even make Dr. Victor Frankenstein uneasy.
Since publishing “The Home” in 2005, Nicholson continues to explore the dreads found in the darkest corners of the Appalachian Mountains.

For more on Scott and his writings visit his website at www.hauntedcomputer.com