In these days where every novel is part of a trilogy or massive in length, it was refreshing to encounter a tight little story as complete and satisfying as this one. I felt the length and the pacing of the story were perfect. As I read I wondered: “which is more horrifying: the ghost we see or the ghost we create in our minds?”, “How much of our sanity is linked to the things we call reality – light, color, other people, sound?”, and “Are their things that we don’t understand or want to acknowledge that exist beyond this reality?” Jack must balance these questions with other forces pulling on him, such as rationality, duty, loyalty, honor, and love. It is unsettling yet compelling and was a true “page turner” that I almost listened to completely in one sitting.

This is a wonderful piece of horror fiction that slowly ratchets up the tension and uneasiness. Meanwhile every month comes the moonless sky and the nothingness that threatens to consume him.

How long can he hold the fort until the others come and save him? He has a radio, dogs and even has a visitor but ultimately the winter is setting in and the ice will soon settle the question of his rescue. Events are told through the entries in Jack's journal and slowly we watch Jack lose control as terror seeps into every action and every perception. This is in October 1937 and the sun has already set for the last time of the season. Shortly after the team arrives uneasiness sets in and through some unfortunate circumstances Jack is to be left for a short time alone to man the station. An uneasy Norwegian captain who knows more than he will acknowledge all but three of the team struck down before even landing and gruesome artifacts of other unsuccessful enterprises found on the bay shore at which the team plans to overwinter, all seem to point at the reality that nobody wants to acknowledge: this place is haunted.

An Exhibition to the high artic seems fated to end poorly even before it starts.

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