![]() I just ride along.”) If all this smacks of Scooby-Doo, then that’s by design, though it’s not the only mass-media allusion: glimmers of The Haunting, Dark Shadows, the Witch Mountain franchise, Halloween, and Tales from the Crypt dance above the swamp. (“Please do not feel deceived: he has been your dog all this time. And there’s a telepathic dog, too, that just may be living proof of metempsychosis. ![]() ![]() Kerri has visions, too, but mostly ones brought on after one too many hits off the bottle. Nate, “pale, blue-eyed, more worn but still fragile,” let the ghosts get to him and has been in and out of mental institutions. Of the original crew, Andy has turned into a butch, spiky young woman seemingly bucking for a dragon tattoo to call her own. ![]() But are the dead ever dead? No, of course not. The members of the Blyton Summer Detective Club, who last adjourned in 1977 after sleuthing around the improbably named Zoinx River Valley in search of supernatural beings, have got the band back together a decade and a half later-well, with all but one of their number, who has inconveniently died. Barcelona-based novelist Cantero ( The Supernatural Enhancements, 2014) returns with a lightly spun yarn steeped in decades-old American pop media. ![]()
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