Revival

I'm putting this one on the list of my favorites definitely. Not many books have managed to send chills down my spine since Simons' Summer of Night (true horror) but Revival is a masterpiece of Lovecraftian horror. The character development is crazy good and the Lovecraftian element was done so well that it kept me on the edge of my seat, waiting for something terrifying to happen.

The first part of the novel is slow and there is nothing out of ordinary happening, but exactly that creates a tense atmosphere as if there is something on the brink of happening (something will happen?) which culminates in one haunting image and a troubling sermon.