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Post by andydecker on Mar 28, 2020 11:43:39 GMT
Robert R. McCammon – Mystery Walk (Pan Books, 1984, Original Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 441 p.) (Scan courtesy of Isfdb) German edition, 1988 (Title as Wandering Souls)
When Billy was ten years old he discovered that he has inherited his mother's ability to give restless souls their peace. All his life he has to free tortured souls. To do this, he has to take them and their pain into himself. So begins Billy's terrible Mystery Walk. (German blurb) The blurb is poor. There is much more about the tale, it is basically Good vs Evil and is a large part about those tent-evangelists. This has to be the first McCammon I read, in the translation back then. At the time many publishers jumped on the King success train and created genre imprints. Knaur Publishing was one of them. As far as content is concerned, they had an interesting and diverse program. Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Tessier, but also American Neo Horror Pulp like Jeffrey Sackett, J.M.Straczinsky. They did all of McCammon's books except The Wolf's Hour. |
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