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As only the second Torn Pages book to be written in Spring, Torn Pages Labyrinth is a weird novel. Please brace yourselves. This is a very weird novel. And that's me saying that. Me, whose first novel featured a student feeding someone to a monster beneath her dorm. This book is weirder. More weird. Trust me.
If all the Torn Pages sequels can be seen as dark postscripts on the original Bradbury-boyhood wonder on the first Torn Pages, Labyrinth is not quite as dark as Underworld (there's no sexual assault) but it is still very dark. I drew influence from Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil as well as W.W. Jacobs skill of implying not showing that he used so well in "The Monkey's Paw". I've always preferred this kind of horror writing. It's "The Monkey's Paw" not "The Monkey's Gore". Labyrinth continues the grand tradition of, instead of providing salvation, leaving its characters in a far bleaker position than previous.