From the author of The Trickster, an unnerving tale of latterday alchemy and the horrors brooding beneath the placid surface of life in one small town in America.
Something is being born.
The darkness is its delight, deep and black and hot.
Its growth is unstoppable.
It knows who has summoned it.
It knows that its carrier is aware and afraid.
Its time is drawing near...
When long-distance truck driver Josh Spiller pulls into the small backwater town of Furnace, Virginia, he has a lot on his mind. He’s been driving for thirty-six hours straight after busting up with his pregnant girlfriend; he’s tired and hungry, and all he wants is to get some breakfast and rest up.
But Furnace has something special in store for Josh. Amongst the surprisingly affluent houses, the neat streets and smartly-dressed townsfolk lurks the stuff of living nightmare. A sequence of events is about to be unleashed that will test Josh to the edge of his endurance. A world of sorcery and malice is waiting to gather him in. For behind the prosperity of Furnace lie terrible secrets; and a terrifying fate in store for those who take an unwarranted interest.
Even now, as Josh searches for a place to stop, his electric-blue Peterbilt roaring through the gears, the eyes of the town are upon him.
The nightmare is beginning...
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The rotating point of view can be confusing, and the language (Gray is Scottish) occasionally doesn't ring true to an American ear. Nevertheless, this is a grand, terrifying tale.
When trucker Josh Spiller pulls his rig into the small town of Furnace, Virginia, all he wants is a decent meal before getting back on the road and away from his memories of a bitter quarrel with his girlfriend. Instead, he witnesses a baby's violent death and can't convince the sheriff that the upstanding, well-dressed woman he saw leaving the scene was responsible. Shaken by his experience, he rolls out of Furnace, stopping to pick up a desperately attractive, female hitchhiker who seems to have the answers to some of his questions about the inhabitants of Furnace--and who is just as anxious to get out of town as he is.
Soon after, Josh begins to feel eyes watching him--the burning eyes of misshapen creatures. Is it possible to have nightmares while you're awake? And just as his grip on what's real and what's imagined begins to slip, he makes a bizarre discovery: someone has slipped him what looks like parchment, inscribed with the words, "five days alive permitted." Something unnatural is happening in Furnace, but will Josh be around long enough to unravel its secrets?
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 338 pages. Cover worn Trucker Josh Spiller pulls his rig int o Furnace, Virginia, for a meal and leaves with an attractive, fr ightened hitchhiker and the conviction that something evil is afo ot in the small town, and that his time is running out. Seller Inventory # 1299ah
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 600gms weight; Remainder; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 340 pages. Seller Inventory # 22107
Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade Paperback. 338 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harper Collins, UK, 1997. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. Minor edgewear and creasing to covers. Remainder mark. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: An unnerving tale of latterday alchemy and the horrors brooding beneath the placid surface of life in one small town in America. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Horror; ISBN: 0002257157. ISBN/EAN: 9780002257152. Inventory No: 11030554. The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale. Seller Inventory # 11030554