Hell Gate – a narrow tidal strait in the East River in New York is well-named because of its powerful and dangerous currents. In 1904 the steamship General Slocum caught fire in the strait and sank, taking down well over 1,000 souls. The worst single-event loss of life in this country until 9/11. Hell Gate’s churning waters, however, don’t stop a group of five graduate students from Poughkeepsie spaced out on drugs from boating through the strait in Dana Wolff’s compelling horror fiction, “The