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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