The Devil in Silver

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Pepper is a rambunctious big man, and, suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in Queens, New York. He's not mentally ill, but that doesn't seem to matter. On his first night, he's visited by a terrifying creature who nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It's no delusion: The other patients confirm that a hungry devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to fight back: Dorry, an octogenarian schizophrenic; Coffee, an African immigrant with severe OCD; and Loochie, a bipolar teenage girl. Battling the pill-pushing staff, one another, and their own minds, they try to kill the monster that's stalking them. But can the Devil die?

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The good and the bad of being a resident of an underfunded mental institution submitted by sVfGI7Glt2pz7GZgVB90 on July 11, 2020, 8:50am A mental institution that may be haunted by the devil —at least its patients imagine so. A pleasurable read that also raises provocative questions about the nature of institutions of all varieties. The concept is interesting but it swiftly becomes predictable and cliché.