While 80s nostalgia is still alive and well, nostalgia for the 1990s is becoming more and more prevalent; especially in the horror genre.
This brings us to Sam Beckbessinger and Dale Halvorsen’s Girls of Little Hope which aims to remind of the good and the bad of this time period.
Remember we are living in a pre-internet and mobile phone era, so when someone goes missing its faces on milk cartons and newspaper appeals to try and track them down.
Our titular girls of the small American town of Little Hope, are Donna, Rae and Kat who are bonded by their tags as outsiders in school. When Kat goes missing the woods nearby, Donna and Rae claim to remember nothing under interrogation from the police.
Are they telling the truth or is there something more sinister afoot in Little Hope?
Beckbessinger and Halvorsen do a fine job of fleshing out our trio and their immediate family and really capture the small town paranoia of a missing person case.
Admittedly, there is a flip in Girls of Little Hope which you will either get on board with or not, but this never feels dull and the stakes are continually raised.
Nostalgia hounds and fans of missing person crime horror stories will lap this up.
Girls of Little Hope by Sam Beckbessinger and Dale Halvorsen is available now from Titan Books.
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