Rowe does a great job with his characters, and his narrator Jameson Browning is an easy man to sympathize with, as he's had his fair share of disappointments and tragedies throughout his life. Fraught with themes such as gender identity and exploration of memory and memory loss, Rowe's sophomore novel is a literary ghost story that can stand with the best of it's kind. This doesn't reflect badly on the story whatsoever, and further cements the idea that Wild Fell is a ghost story as opposed to a typical haunted house story. Wild Fell is a bit unorthodox as well, with the narrator not even getting to the "haunted house" until the majority of the book has passed. The coda can stand as a novella of it's own, and was a unique, fun way to wrap up the novel. The main narrative of Enter, Night ended after 340 pages and was followed by a 70 page coda, a translation of an old document which cleared up a lot of the backstory/history behind the vampire infestation of Parr's Landing. Much like Enter, Night before it, Wild Fell takes place in Ontario and takes a structurally interesting approach. Now Michael Rowe's second horror novel, Wild Fell, is doing for ghosts what Enter, Night did for vampires. 2011 saw the publication of one of the best and scariest modern vampire novels with Enter, Night.
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