{"id":20617,"date":"2026-03-09T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=20617"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T02:03:37","slug":"review-hive-ronald-malfi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-hive-ronald-malfi\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Hive by Ronald Malfi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20616\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-hive-ronald-malfi\/hive\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hive.jpg?fit=783%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"783,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hive\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hive.jpg?fit=668%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20616\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hive.jpg?resize=228%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"cover of The Hive\" width=\"228\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hive.jpg?resize=228%2C350&amp;ssl=1 228w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hive.jpg?resize=668%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 668w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hive.jpg?resize=768%2C1177&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hive.jpg?w=783&amp;ssl=1 783w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 85vw, 228px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-hive-ronald-malfi\/d5a73da0c496b3f0?ean=9781803365671&amp;next=t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><em>The Hive<\/em><\/b><\/a> <strong>b<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>y<\/strong> <strong>Ronald Malfi<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Titan Books (April 14, 2026)<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Review by W.D. Gagliani<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ronald Malfi (author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fall of Never<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Narrows<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bone White<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">December Park<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Small Town Horror<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Little Girls<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Come With Me<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and numerous others) knows that deep down, most of us fear &#8212; or at least distrust &#8212; the small-town dynamic&#8230;unless we grew up with it, and even then the American Way is often to leave the small town behind. In the horror tradition, it\u2019s probably a clich\u00e9 to say that Stephen King rewrote the book on small town horror, and folks like Ray Bradbury had been there before. But there\u2019s nothing wrong with echoing those voices with a current-day vibe, and that\u2019s what Malfi gives us with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hive<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not a small town, though. The seaside community of Mariner\u2019s Cove is a perfect setting for this disquieting novel that reiterates some of the author\u2019s favorite themes. Curiously, the community is often referred to as a \u201cneighborhood\u201d even though it appears large enough that its residents don\u2019t know all the streets. After a powerful storm that knocks out the electrical grid for an extended period, a vast kaleidoscope of residents begins to exhibit strangely obsessive behaviors focused on one normally insignificant item &#8212; a wire hanger, a tricycle wheel, a metal colander, and so on. For retired heart surgeon Michael Danver, it\u2019s a wooden door planted upright into an offshore sandbar after the storm. Peculiarly, aggressively possessive of his find, it takes over his life much to the shocked dismay of his wife. A newly pregnant young waitress, an engineer and his wife, a local cop, and Jeremy \u201cStinger\u201d Stuckey, a beekeeping handyman with a burdensome mother to care for and fascist leadership tendencies &#8212; these are some of the disparate group of neighbors who realize that they share more than strange obsessions. Indeed, they\u2019ve developed a form of telepathy, an affinity for bees, a mysterious common purpose, and a fascination with a nearby water tower which figures in their shared dreams and nightmares.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After this auspicious beginning, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hive<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> becomes a veritable honeycomb of stories, as the relatively large cast of characters learn about and begin to cope with their new obsessions. The true heart of the story, though, lies with ten-year-old Cory McBride, his mother Ellen, and their relationship with Ellen\u2019s brother, Brian, a radio DJ whose life and career have repeatedly stumbled due to addiction &#8212; and a largely misunderstood psychic ability, one shared with young Cory who blames his mother for banishing his only father-figure, the beloved Uncle Brian, from their lives. The good-natured Brian re-enters their lives at a critical point, but also complicates their understanding of what\u2019s happening around them. Soon the weird neighbors have coalesced into a group of telepathically linked drones following mysterious instructions at the water tower, eventually realizing their obsessions now include a certain young boy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Cory does indeed have the same gift Uncle Brian had, and squandered, but stronger. The \u201cgarden gnome\u201d he imagines grants his wishes allows him to read minds and more &#8212; and is in fact growing more powerful, making Cory both wise to what\u2019s happening to his neighbors even if he doesn\u2019t understand it, and causing him to become the center of Stinger\u2019s possibly nefarious plans. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When violence finally erupts it\u2019s consequential, but layered with a long and convincing arc of realizations by the newly converted members of what Stinger calls the Hive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a structure superficially reminiscent of King\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Shining<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Stand<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (and others), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hive<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a richly imagined, elaborate and psychologically convincing exposition of what chaos &#8212; or evi &#8212; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">groupthink<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or mob mentality can cause in \u201ccivilized\u201d society. Those easily swayed by groupthink &#8212; or, here, the hivemind &#8212; live in denial and cannot see evidence of their insular mentality even if confronted with it, and we often refer to them as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cults<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Metaphorically <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hive<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> makes some pointed observations regarding the cult dynamic while recalling &#8212; but never borrowing from &#8212; F<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">olk Horror on film (think <em>The Wicker Man<\/em>, <em>Children of the Corn<\/em>, Craven\u2019s <em>Deadly Blessing<\/em>, and Shyamalan\u2019s <em>The Village<\/em>, for instance). There is an effectively palpable sense of rising claustrophobic paranoia that parallels the plot\u2019s ratcheting toward an inevitable but still puzzling climax. Malfi\u2019s prose, at its best when driving toward that climax, is rather like a rock-tinged <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ostinato<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a repetitive pattern that grabs hold of your attention and won\u2019t let go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite occasional lapses into minor redundancies and scenes that (at 768 pages) might be best just <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">slightly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> trimmed, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hive<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ultimately succeeds by building its case slowly, and laying its foundation with the confidence of a master plan as opposed to a random placement of vignettes.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The burn is slow but meticulously escalated, ultimately making the long journey getting there all the more worthwhile. Patient readers (of which I am one) will be greatly rewarded by the blending of \u201cclassic\u201d and post-Lovecraft \u201ccosmic\u201d horror, finding the characters\u2019 points of view both convincing and engaging. And the careful depiction of obsessive cult-like behavior is chilling because we can all name real-world examples. Ronald Malfi has planted a vibrant flag in the genre of cerebral small-town horror, and if <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hive<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is your first it will likely lead you to check out some of his earlier work.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hive by Ronald Malfi Titan Books (April 14, 2026) Review by W.D. 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