Murder of Angels - Softcover

Kiernan, Caitlin R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451459962 ISBN 13: 9780451459961

Publisher: Roc Trade, 2004

Synopsis

Ten years after witnessing something unspeakable in an old Birmingham, Alabama, house, Daria Parker, a successful musician and addict, and Niki Ky, trapped in a world of schizophrenia, are drawn back together, when Niki begins to receive messages from her dead lover, Spyder Baxter, who warns her of her new role as a prophesied sorceress capable of opening a portal between worlds. Original.

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About the Author

Caitlín R. Kiernan has published a large variety of short fiction in magazines and anthologies, but is perhaps best known for her work on The Dreaming, a Sandman-related comic book created by Neil Gaiman. A paleontologist as well as a writer, Kiernan currently lives with her cat Sophie and a few thousand fossils.

Reviews

In this stylish sequel to Kiernan's debut novel, Silk (1998), it's been 10 years since a drug-fueled experiment opened a window on an alternate world of horrors that pushed angst-scarred Spyder Baxter to suicide, and its survivors are still reeling from the aftershocks. Daria Parker has parlayed some of her experience into a successful musical career, but her lover, Niki Ky, is wracked by full-blown schizophrenic episodes in which Spyder beckons her from a dimension beyond death. When Niki follows Spyder's instruction to make a fatal plunge from San Francisco's Bay Bridge, she awakens in a gothic realm of death and darkness where she plays a key role in an intrigue Spyder has engineered to draw out a demonic entity known as "the Dragon." Meanwhile, Daria struggles in the world of the living to retrieve and protect an artifact Niki needs to keep horrors in the Dragon's world from erupting into our own. Though the plot often mystifies, the novel's unusual blend of otherworldly and supernatural horror gives it a uniquely weird cast. Kiernan's true achievement, however, is the careful crafting of her mellifluous prose to sustain an intense atmosphere of dread. Dream and nightmare, hallucination and reality, private fantasy and objective experience all merge seamlessly, making this one of the more relentless horror reads of the year.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Roc Trade
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451459962
• ISBN 13: 9780451459961
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352