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Desper Hollow

by Elizabeth Massie
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It begins when mountain matriarch Granny Mustard decides she wants to live forever, but then is killed. Her slow-witted but equally hardheaded granddaughter Jenkie decides to pick up the ball and run with it, taking Granny's unperfected immortality moonshine recipe, a socially-inept friend named Bink, and dreams of fame and fortune to an abandoned trailer up in Desper Hollow. But slow-witted can't stand against the terrible power Granny initiated. Jenkie's experiments only worsen the troubles with Granny's original recipe, bringing dead critters and a few stray folks back to a state of hungry, vicious, mindless animation. Now a stash of the living dead is locked up in the back of the trailer, a howling herd that has Jenkie terrified. And Armistead, one of the red-eyed living dead, seems way too alert for comfort.

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    February 12, 2024

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    • English

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 29, 2013
      Though Massie (Sineater) is an adept and imaginative fashioner of setting and character, her zombie thriller promises more than it delivers. Granny Mustard, the feared matriarch of Desper Hollow, cooks up a particularly nasty brew of moonshine that returns the dead to life. Her great-granddaughter Suze tries to stop the spread of it by reducing the adjacent town of Beaver Dam to ash, while Suze’s sister Jenkie tries to launch a reality TV show, Jenkie Mustard and Her Monsters What Come Back to Life. Massie abruptly takes a turn for the serious as a local preacher and his daughter try to set things right, and one of the recently arisen zombies, Armistead, begins hearing voices. Jenkie, originally entertaining and gutsy in a darkly bizarre way, is reduced to a mumbling extra from white-trash central casting, while her aghast television producer becomes a sudden action hero. A final crisis of faith and improbable revelation drown all the preliminary exuberance in overwrought exposition, inspiring only a longing for what this had the potential to be.

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