Not Going Gently by Ron Schroer
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Four childhood friends summon a monster to silence their bully; forty-four years later, something has begun answering wishes they never made.
In 1978, four teenagers at Stilwell High sing an ancient song to rid themselves of a vicious school bully. What answers is no childhood fantasy—and the secret binds them together for life.
Forty-four years later, retired detective Hank Richter is watching his remaining days pass in a haze of gin, old television and cryptic crosswords. Then a bikie boss is found dismembered and grotesquely rebuilt inside his own motorcycle. The murder echoes the unsolved Stilwell case that has haunted Hank since he was a young constable. When more impossible killings follow, the official story points to an escalating gang war. Hank sees something else: a trail leading back to four former students who have spent decades trying to forget what they called into the world.
Evie, Nigel, Steff and Simon are older now, carrying guilt, grudges and memories worn thin by time. But the ancient thing tied to them has aged too. As old promises fracture and buried connections surface, Hank closes in on a truth no rational investigation could contain.
Darkly funny, savagely inventive and steeped in creeping dread, Not Going Gently is a folk-horror novella about old sins, failing minds and the terrible patience of a forgotten family.