![]() ![]() Unlike Childmare, Surrogate is an intimate affair, with only a few characters and smaller stakes. Oh, and the requisite King blurb at the top, too, almost literally overshadowing the actual author's name! The cover is replete with the coming (and going) decade's hallmark imagery: solitary child, evil doll, leering old man. I found that novel to be solid horror entertainment, so have been looking forward to The Surrogate (Signet Books, July 1980) for some time now. Scott, both pseudonyms of Norwegian/British author Scott Grønmark) also wrote Childmare, an intensely grim novel of a teenage riot in the James Herbert tradition. Malevolent doll alert! Yes indeed, that mainstay of '80s horror fiction is at it again, a supernaturally-possessed innocent child's toy goes on a murderous rampage, controlled by the evil whims of a man so hateful and angry and resentful that he operates from beyond the grave. ![]()
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