Throwback by Mark Manley6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel opens with a prologue in 1939 in which Arleen's mother is killed by the local sheriff Arleen herself is just a child, and is sent off to an adoption agency. The lady is named Arleen, and her mother too was a "throwback," which we learn is redneck terminology for other women in the past who, in middle age, grew a mutant product of some failed, offshoot race upon their backs. It's also further proof that just about anything could get published in the wacky world of horror paperback originals not that the novel is bad or anything, but it's obviously a short story disguising itself as a full-length novel. Proving yet again that '80s horror fiction knew no boundaries, Mark Manley's Throwback is a creepy and twisted tale about a middle-aged woman who discovers one day that a monster is growing on her back. ![]()
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