With her deep knowledge of mental illness and mental institutions, Susan Vaught brings readers a fascinating and completely creepy new book intertwining the stories of three young people who find themselves haunted beyond imagining in the depths of Lincoln Hospital. Terrified, she knows she has a part to play, and when she does so, she finds a heritage that she never expected. But along with hundreds of very unstable patients, it also has underground tunnels, bell towers that ring unexpectedly, and a closet that holds more than just donated clothing.When the dead husband of one of Forest's patients makes an appearance late one night, seemingly accompanied by an agent of the Devil, Forest loses all sense of reality and all sense of time. Lincoln is a huge state mental institution, a good place for Forest to make some money to pay for college. Based on real local lore and the actual institution headed by Vaught herself. Not that Forest, an 18-year-old foster kid who works the graveyard shift at Lincoln Hospital, knew this when she applied for the job. In three connected stories all set in the same mental institution in rural Kentucky, ghosts of a very spooky sort make appearances in dark tunnels, abandoned bell towers and forgotten corners of the basements.

It is a crossways, a place where the dead and the living can find no peace. Never, Kentucky is not your average scenic small town. SUSAN VAUGHT is the author of the highly acclaimed Reviews Vaught's gradual building of her ghost-busting team nicely juggles attitude and fright, and she excels at bringing each story to a conclusion while still driving to an overall climax.

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Insanity by Susan Vaught