A Gathering of Crows by Brian Keene.
This TRIES to be the sort of book that Stephen King used to be able to write while he was sleepwalking.
Decrepit old town? Check.
Malevolent outside attackers? Check.
Young people with unknown abilities? Check.
Lovers who refuse to admit they love each other? Check
Deep characters and logical story? NOPE

I wanted to like this book. It was about a dying old town in West Virginia, named Brinkley Falls. Brinkley Falls is attacked one night by five supernatural shapechanging entities whose very presence puts out all light in the town. They proceed to butcher the town's citizens in the darkness. However an Amish magician is passing thru and he intends to defend the town against these Lovecraftian inspired human looking monsters.

But since ALL of the characters in the book were cardboard, it was VERY difficult to care about any of them. They weren't well defined. Also the writer did not maintain internal logic. The entities attack at night and extinguish all electricity or light by their very presence. Absent candles no one can see anything. Yet the heroes, who don't have any candles, are constantly described as doing such things as reading, searching for equipment, looking at each other's faces, or preparing meals, in TOTAL darkness. Sigh. A quick read but not a very good one.