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Post by andydecker on May 26, 2020 15:11:43 GMT
Graham Masterton – The Pariah (Star Books, 1983, 380 p.)
Granitehead, Massachusetts. A fishing village with a past, where the dead once walked the streets. As they will walk again when they raise …
THE PARIAH
The wreck lies off-shore. Three hundred years of ice-cold currents have preserved its timbers and pacified the demon that still lives within its hold …
THE PARIAH
The single greatest evil ever recorded in the Codex Vaticanus. Now it rises once more to the light of day – to plunge the world into everlasting night …
BEWARE THE PARIAHOne of the first bigger books Masterton wrote before 400+pages became the norm. Read the first half so far. Masterton in classical ghost story mode. It is quite effective at first, the narrator, owner of a shop for nautical antiques, is a middle-aged widower whose wife died in a accident a month before or so. Suddenly there is her ghost haunting the house and him. Another ghost kills his still living wife in a gruesome way. It may have something to do with a sunken ship at the time of the Salem witch trails, which some museum guys and the narrator want to salvage, because it may be the trigger for the ghosts coming back. Some very slow, atmospheric writing at first, but I had forgotten how often I have problems with Masteron's characters and their behavior right out of the left field. But I will reserve judgement after reading the second half. |
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