“Came outta nowhere, didn’t it?”

A very full 124 pages. I love it when novellas pack a big punch and take few prisoners. That is to say: this story started fast and ended agreeably! A mark of success, regarding novellas, is plot branching that doesn’t leave readers unfulfilled: Hightower introduced depth without dissatisfaction. Not to mention, the story is simply scary, and you can’t go wrong with that.

There was enough going on that if Hightower had built in any more plot arcs, it would have been a messier table. The inherent challenge in shorter fiction is creating impact within space and, often times, authors can tend to “and then and then and then” of a breathless toddler telling a story. Not so much here, but, there were some loose threads left unsnipped.

3.5/5 In general, as a society, collectively, we should be hornier for Mothman, but this just wasn’t that type of book.