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Review: Blackwater Lane

— by WILLIAM STERR —

Shortcuts are not always the best idea. Just ask Cass Anderson.

She was driving home late one raining evening, taking an isolated shortcut called Blackwater Lane. After nearly being run off the road by a truck, she saw a car parked by the side of the road. She stopped, and, through the rain, could just make out a woman sitting in the driver’s seat. After a few moments with no indication from the other driver that there was a problem, she headed home.

This is our introduction to the nightmare that is “Blackwater Lane.”

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