Welcome to Friday 56! Hosted by Freda’s Voice, you turn to page 56 or 56% in any book or reading device and pick a sentence that grabs you.

She looked at the rows of houses they were passing, silent and dark and brooding. ‘Like there are people in there watching us.'”

Snow by Ronald Malfi

This quote is taken from page 57 of the book. Ronald Malfi is fast becoming one of my favorite horror writers, and of the three books I have read (two of which I have already finished), this one is my favorite so far.

Todd was on his way to visit his son for Christmas when a massive snow storm grounded all flights for the foreseeable future. Todd, who lives in NYC, gets stuck in Chicago and his luggage gets stuck on the plane. Instead of waiting for another flight, which probably wouldn’t be until sometime the next day, Todd decides that he is going to drive from Chicago to Des Moines, a distance of around 300 miles. He promised his son that he would be there in the morning, and he is hell bent on keeping that promise.

While waiting in line at the rental car counter, he runs into a woman who was supposed to be on the flight with him, and they decide to brave the storm in a rented SUV, along with an elderly couple.

Things take an unexpected turn for the worse when they encounter a man walking alone on the snowy highway. Todd barely misses hitting him with the car and they crash into a snow embankment, damaging the radiator. The man is frantically looking for his missing 8 year-old daughter, and the quartet decide to bring him with them to the nearest town to get help. But what they find in this town is nothing they could have imagined. It looks deserted, but then strange things start to happen….