The Hospital: Part Two: On the Inside

 

Sean P. McCracken
PublishAmerica (2007)
ISBN 9781424163328
Reviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (5/07)

 

This is the sequel to Sean P. McCracken’s first book “The Hospital: Part One: Rude Awakening.” “Part Two: On the Inside” begins with an unusual series of bizarre circumstances at the long abandoned Weston State Hospital.  The deaths of seven former hospital employees within three weeks have the townspeople on edge.  Rumors of ghosts continue to build as the locals speculate on whom or what will be next in line for death or destruction. 

The North American Association of Paranormal Investigations (NAAPI) team, made up of Emily, Clair, Nathan, and Pat, are sent to investigate the Weston State Hospital to defuse the situation. The old hospital takes on a life of its own meeting the team with tolling bells, flying hammers, spectral re-runs, sudden death and personal trauma.

The team meets the challenge with modern technology, intuitive action, psychic interpretation, and psychiatric skills as they confront residual haunting, fierce thunder storms, earthquake force rumblings, multicolored orbs, and multiple aberrations, in their search for Mary Elizabeth Courtney’s journal of horrors.

The protagonists introduced in part one are further developed in the sequel and become warmer more believable, and genuine. The evil characters take on a darker side, and are even more sinister, abnormal, and obsessed than in book one. McCracken draws the reader in using a current of horror, mystery, and suspense, throughout his plot twists, and dramatic climatic conclusion.

The intrigue and possibility of American physicians and scientists working in collusion performing unauthorized medical testing give the reader just reason for another sleepless night.

Although paranormal activities are taken seriously and considered as a field of scientific study, I personally am limited in knowledge of reference material available to test the validity of McCracken’s presumptions.  Given the license of creativity in fiction McCracken has produced a plausible, informative hypothesis for his story.

“The Hospital: Part Two: On the Inside” is a spellbinding, addictive chronicle sure to be enjoyed by those readers who enjoy a good suspense mystery or are interested in paranormal activities. McCracken writes with well paced intensity.

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