THE MISSING, by Sarah Langan

(originally posted on October 24, 2007)

As good as THE KEEPER was, this follow-up is really something else, what with Langan devising a plausibly scientific explanation for a most well-known supernatural occurrence (hint: it involves being rather undead.) The terror striking ordinary people in Corpus Christi, Maine has a poetic quality that tightens further and further to the seemingly apocalyptic yet very humane finish.