Backstreets (novel)
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Backstreets is a novel by Australian horror writer Rob Hood
(Hodder Headline, 1999). It is effectively an urban ghost story, its plot centering on a young man Kel who wakes from a coma to find that his friend Bryce is dead, and is thereafter plagued by strange dreams, which draw him to the city’s backstreets. It is a profoundly felt work based largely on the accidental death of Hood’s stepson Luke.
Rob Hood
Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
(Hodder Headline, 1999). It is effectively an urban ghost story, its plot centering on a young man Kel who wakes from a coma to find that his friend Bryce is dead, and is thereafter plagued by strange dreams, which draw him to the city’s backstreets. It is a profoundly felt work based largely on the accidental death of Hood’s stepson Luke.