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Post by dem bones on Aug 5, 2016 14:35:05 GMT
John Llewellyn Probert - All Hallows Horror (Pegasus Books, Mar. 2017) There has always been something wrong about All Hallows Church. Not just the building, but the very land upon it stands. Reports dating back to Roman times reveal that it has always been a bad place blighted by strange sightings, unusual phenomena, and unexplained disappearances.
So in the 1990s, a team of para-psychiatrists is sent in to investigate the various mysteries surrounding the Church and its unsavoury legends. From the start, they begin to discover a paranormal world that defies belief. But as they dig deeper, not only do they uncover some of the secrets behind the ancient edifice designed by Zombie King Thomas Moreby but, hidden away beneath everything else, something so ancient and so terrifying that it is using the architect himself as a conduit to unimaginable evil.
After four days and nights, not everybody survives and those that do will come to wish they hadn't. Imagine The Haunting of Hill House, The Amityville Horror, The Entity and The Stone Tape rolled together into the very fabric of a single building. And then imagine if all that horror is accidentally released . . ."This looks a bit good. A Zombie Apocalypse spin-off novel, due March next year, available for pre-order via Am*z*nVery fetching cover art, I must say (artist?). The terrified young woman has more than a touch of the Lady Probert's about her. And is that Ms. Niveau's diabolical other half malingering on the steps?
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Post by Mike Brough on Aug 5, 2016 19:15:34 GMT
This sounds promising. But 2017? Why that's... next year.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Aug 5, 2016 20:36:05 GMT
Very fetching cover art, I must say (artist?). The terrified young woman has more than a touch of the Lady Probert's about her. And is that Ms. Niveau's diabolical other half malingering on the steps? The artist is Douglas Klauba - good, isn't it? And as always, Dem, it delights me that, while you might associate the attractive young lady on the cover with Lady Probert, you're quite right that there would be none of that hero nonsense for me - I'm far more likely to be the demented evil priest up on the steps there, possessed of something from the lands of Clark Ashton Smith (a strong influence on the book, but then so are Nigel Kneale and the zombie films of Lucio Fulci. Especially them. Oh yes. ). At least, that's what I might claim makes me do all those terrible things...
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Post by dem bones on Aug 5, 2016 21:53:25 GMT
Most striking, yer honour. Not sure I like the chap with the torch though. I'm getting a busy-body do-gooder vibe from him. The book sounds wonderful. The opening sequence centred around All Hallows Church in the first Zombie Apocalypse - Michael Marshall Smith's Things Past, Christopher Fowler's Dead Ground Zero and Paul Finch's Special Powers - made a huge impression on me, set me up to plough through the rest of the series come what may. I still reckon it's Stephen Jones' masterpiece (though the ending is far from Kim Newman's finest hour). This sounds promising. But 2017? Why that's... next year. By which time it will have most likely sold out on pre-orders, so might be best to get in soon-ish.
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