JT Patten tears down the divisions between horror, supernatural, and thriller genres to fuse a concoction that’s equal parts terrifying and thrilling.
Whispers of a Gypsy catapults a neurodivergent young boy, Dwight Skinner, whose perceived superpowers are all but treated as a figment of his mental state. It soon turns out to be something more sinister and powerful when they come across a whisperer going by the name of Mr. Mortimer. He’s on a vicious hunt for those who wronged him and that hunt puts young Dwight in his path, as his dark guardian angel. With a gruesome and scary history of experiments and abuse going back to the days of Nazi’s, it bears the mark of JT Patten’s gut-wrenching no-holds-barred writing that will captivate you from the get-go.
While most horror stories take a good chunk of pages to develop into something unsettling, JT Patten bypasses this tradition to get to the harrowing and disturbing themes almost immediately, tinged with a consistent sense of creepiness, conflicting you between reading one more chapter and putting it down when the night gets too grim for the bone-chilling narrative. If you dare to push the envelope, you’ll be in for a treat that ties this superb horror/ supernatural tale with elements of espionage with a mix of old-school and modern-day conflicts.
Whispers of a Gypsy is one of the scariest and darkest horror thrillers I’ve read and it’s a magnificent experimental blend of genres to appeal to most readers. Tackling social issues with history, science, politics, and horror, JT Patten has something for all readers and it’s a book that you’d shudder at reading at night even under the comfort of your bedside lamps switched.
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