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A Tale of Terror by Horror Writer Rich Logsdon
Published 2008 by Stonegarden.net Publishers

The Deconstruction of Beatrice Gray, a steady journey into an almost tangible darkness, is a must read for those who love dark fiction. Set in a remote northern area known for demonic activity, the novel is told from the point of view of struggling Lutheran Pastor Jacob Gray, whose fear that he is losing his mind in a battle with demonic beings drives him to reconstruct his family history. Indeed, the reconstruction becomes a kind of exorcism as Jacob takes himself and his reader back to the hideous mansion where his mother Beatrice was raised.
Accordingly, Jacob begins with his great-great grandfather Silas, a powerful, even brutal man who built the great and hideous Gray mansion upon a labyrinth once used as both an insane asylum and a temple for the worship of the pagan goddess Asherah. Jacob moves on to the murder of Silas’ son Jedediah by the prostitute Martha Higgens. Minutes before her hanging, Martha places the Gray family under a curse and, in so doing, unleashes a fury and madness that strike several of Jacob’s ancestors: Jedidiah’s wife goes made; Jedidiah’s grandson Jeremy commits a murder-suicide; Jeremy’s sister Esther Jane pledges her daughter Beatrice to the bloodthirsty goddess Asherah.
The center of this dark novel is Beatrice and her sister Sarah. Their capacity to commit unspeakable evil culminates in a crime, a turning point for both, that at once binds and separates the sisters: Beatrice becomes a high priestess devoted to Asherah while Sarah becomes a street corner evangelist winning souls for Jesus. The sisters’ strange divergence reveals that plot and character in this novel are predicated upon an old church doctrine according to which only a certain “elect” will receive God’s grace and redemption; others—the non-elect—are forever bound and drawn to darkness.
In its final chapter, the novel returns to Jacob. Is Jacob one of the elect—or one of the permanently damned? Will he forsake all in an act of repentance and follow his aunt Sarah and Jesus? Or will he follows and ultimately absorb his mother’s darkness? Read the novel to find out. And keep in mind that The Deconstruction of Beatrice Gray is not for the faint of heart.

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