The Man from Primrose Lane

All the makings of a cult classic with some great meta elements once you start digging into the bibliography of the author James Renner. It opens with the discovery of the Man from Primrose Lane. A notorious recluse also known as the Man with a Thousand Mittens for his quirk of always wearing mittens regardless of the weather. He has been found dead in his home, the victim of a gut-shot wound. But more significantly, it looks like he has been dragged to the kitchen where all his fingers have been cut off and put into a blender.

That's it. That's all I want to tell you. I went in completely blind and loved the sense of discovery as more elements of the story unfolded. I want to give it 5 stars but my sense it could have been edited tighter butts up against my love of all the hints, easter eggs and wish for a closer examination of some of the story's elements.