Stephen Dobyns’ sprawling, sardonic horror novel The Burn Palace, set in a quiet little Rhode Island town called Brewster, opens with a grabber of a scene in a maternity ward. A nurse sneaks a quickie with a doctor in the room “where that poor colored woman had died in the afternoon,” then finds that while she was distracted, sinister forces abducted a newborn baby from its crib and replaced it with a stolen pet garden snake.
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