Night Things eBook Michael Talbot
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Built by a madwoman during the Victorian era, Lake House is a 160-room mansion in the Adirondacks with stairways that lead nowhere, bizarre rooms designed to distort the senses, endless series of mazelike halls-and a century-long history of violent deaths.
Lauren Montgomery, her son Garrett, and her new rock star husband Stephen Ransom have just arrived at Lake House, anticipating a long and relaxing summer. But what they don't know is that their rental home is actually a labyrinthine puzzle at whose center lurks something unspeakably evil . . .
An inventive and chilling haunted house story in the vein of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, Michael Talbot's Night Things (1988) is a page-turning mixture of horror and fantasy from the author of The Delicate Dependency.
"[T]he most ingenious haunted house in years . . . a grand puzzle . . . Haunted-house fans will enjoy the inventive architecture of Lake House." - Kirkus Reviews
"Talbot is a great storyteller . . . Night Things has twists which will pleasantly surprise even jaded horror readers." - Weird Tales Magazine
Night Things eBook Michael Talbot
I love Michael Talbot, but have difficulty finding books by him; I don't know if that is because he writes infrequently or they're just not available in the United States. I have previously enjoyed "The Delicate Dependency" (one of the best vampire novels EVER!!!) and "The Bog" (also very good) and was excited to find this book. As it turned out, I had actually read this before, but it had been so long that I went ahead and read it again. It was great the 2nd time, too! If you love horror novels, you will love Michael Talbot.Product details
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Night Things eBook Michael Talbot Reviews
Lauren Montgomery, her son Garrett and her "I love myself so much" rock star husband Stephen Ransom have rented a large palatial mansion in the Adirondacks in North Eastern New York. It soon becomes apparent that something terrible is going to happen in "Lake House" which has a reputation for murder and bloodshed. Garrett becomes attuned to the sounds and ghostly apparitions that frequent the house, Lauren becomes more and more concerned about the welfare of herself and her son, and the lovely Stephen with "his mane of dark ringlets" portrays a misogynistic attitude towards women only ever really concerned for his own selfish wellbeing...."we're playing in the big leagues here. You got to do it to them before they do it to you."......
Some beautifully strong characters make Night Things a joy to read and in particular I was drawn to the evil and aptly named Elton Fugate who has some very strange habits as young Garret learns when he observes him from a secret location....."For it was not a space being, or even something living, that Fugate was choking, but some sort of grotesque doll, or manikin of a woman....it was completely rigid and appeared to be constructed out of vinyl and inflated like a beach ball. It was also naked and possessed a frowsy and garishly made-up face and had scruffy patches of lurid yellow hair on both its head and its pubic area."..... Lake House is a place where evil is enticed in and soon it will become the focus of a battle between what is good and what is bad...."There were things that were evil in the universe, unfathomably evil. And there were things that were good".... The final Epilogue is like a story within a story, where Stephen will come to regret giving a lift to a rather petite blond woman called June with...."her sagging, middle-aged body gleaming in the moonlight"...and her friend Arnie.
Many thanks to the good people at Valancourt Books for sending me a gratis copy in exchange for an honest review and that is what I have written. The wonderful Valancourt Books are an independent small press who specialize in the rediscovery of rare, neglected and out of print fiction.
I rarely read fiction that features a "star" as a main character. This book reminded me why...I simply don't find them interesting. Nice writing, but when the only character you hold any empathy for is a kid, and you hate kids, you know you're out of your depth. Simply wasn't my cup of tea.
With an over the top ending like "the cabin in the woods", "night things" proves to be different than other haunted house stories. Worth a read.
This book is terrifying and I love Michael Talbots writing. This was my first book from him and was soon disappointed to find that he wrote only a few books. A good scary book with substance.
Love it! Great read, super quick and fast paced. Also see Peter Clines "14" for a similar cool story. Highly recommend
I liked the first half of the book. It’s the second half that ruins it for me. I felt as if one writer began the story then threw down the pen and went off to go sailing. Then it seemed a second wannabe writer was snooping around the first writer’s study and came across the half-completed manuscript and then decided to finish it. The first half of the book is filled with mystery and interesting character dynamics. But the book loses these elements as it progresses. Myth and spiritualism and “the explanations of it all” are awkwardly dumped into the story by passerby characters.
I read up on the author - seems like he was an interesting, brilliant man, may he rest in peace.
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Although I really enjoyed Talbot's vampire novel, A Delicate Dependency, I just couldn't get into this one. I may try it again sometime, as I think Talbot is a really good writer, but it just didn't grab my attention. Possessed children just seems kind of cliche.
I love Michael Talbot, but have difficulty finding books by him; I don't know if that is because he writes infrequently or they're just not available in the United States. I have previously enjoyed "The Delicate Dependency" (one of the best vampire novels EVER!!!) and "The Bog" (also very good) and was excited to find this book. As it turned out, I had actually read this before, but it had been so long that I went ahead and read it again. It was great the 2nd time, too! If you love horror novels, you will love Michael Talbot.
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