Darker - Softcover

Clark, Simon

3.42

164 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0843949627 ISBN 13: 9780843949629

Publisher: Leisure Books, 2002

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Looking forward to a week of quality time with his wife and young daughter, Richard Young finds himself plunged into a world of terror when a stranger knocks on his door begging for help from a demonic force, thirsty for blood and death, that will brutally destroy everything in its way. Original.

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About the Author:

Simon Clark is a well-established horror writer whose short stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and he has also written prose material for the rock band U2. Simon Clark is also the author of the hugely successful 'Night of the Triffids. The sequel to John Wyndham's classic.

From Publishers Weekly:

In this disappointing novel from British horror veteran Clark (Stranger), a traveler named Michael becomes host while in Istanbul to a tremendously powerful entity called the Beast. Back in England, the Beast separates from Michael and begins to pursue him, crushing cars and churches like an invisible Godzilla. Realizing that the entity can only be controlled by an innocent girl, Michael enlists four-year-old Amy Young for this task. Inexplicably, Michael gets Amy's whole family involved, wins their trust, explains everything and then tries to kill them, all while on the run from the Beast. All these characters are also being tracked by tough teen Rosemary Snow, who was badly injured by Michael and hopes to exact revenge. The sum of all this is a thrilling short story bloated into 600 pages of chase scenes and unsatisfying drama in which few questions are answered and the protagonists are never in any real danger. One can only hope the talented Clark will do better next time. (May)
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