“Haunting… terrifying… graphic and fantastic… will stick with readers for a long time. Just enough sex, violence, and Big Brother rhetoric to make this an incredibly credible tale.”
“Wonderful, fast-paced, rock-’em, jolt-’em, shock-’em contemporary terror fiction with believable characters and an unusually clever plot. Highly entertaining.”
“Bentley Little’s The Walking is the horror event of the year. If you like spooky stories, you must read this book.”
“The Walking is a waking nightmare. A spellbinding tale of witchcraft and vengeance. Scary and intense.”
“Flowing seamlessly between time and place, the Bram Stoker Award–winning author’s ability to transfix his audience… is superb… terrifying. [The Walking] has the potential to be a major sleeper.”
“This is Bentley Little’s best book yet. Frightening, thought-provoking, and impossible to put down.”
“A singular achievement by a writer who makes the leap from the ranks of the merely talented to true distinction with this book. This one may become a classic.”
“Little is so wonderful that he can make the act of ordering a Coke at McDonald’s take on a sinister dimension. This philosophical soul-searcher is provocative.”
“I guarantee, once you start reading this book, you’ll be up until dawn with your eyes glued to the pages. A nail-biting, throat-squeezing, nonstop plunge into darkness and evil.”
“Frightening.”
“A thinking person’s horror novel. The Mailman delivers.”
“By the time I finished, my nerves were pretty well fried, and I have a pretty high shock level. University is unlike anything else in popular fiction.”
ALSO BY BENTLEY LITTLE
His Father’s Son
The Academy
The Vanishing
The Burning
Dispatch
The Resort
The Policy
The Return
The Collection
The Association
The Walking
The Town
The House
The Store
The Ignored
The Revelation
University
Dominion
The Mailman
Death Instinct
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