A review by bldinmt
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

3.0

While there is a physical "bad guy" in this book most of the scary/creepy factor is much more ephemeral in a way that made it more suspenseful reading for me. The darkness of night which brings on a paralysing sense of dread or a malevolent winter storm, isolating and freezing all, seems more hair-raising to me than just a bad wizard or serial killer or something concrete like that.