Clive Barker's Coldheart Canyon
I just finished this 600+ page book. It kept me with it, all the way to the end -- and I still wanted more. Like Barker's other fiction, this book is a mixture of fantasy & horror -- it's well written, and even after scary the hell out of you, it will make you want to keep picking it up. Barker creates a world inhabited by the ghosts of dead movie stars, that had led less than good lives -- their indulgences served to keep them alive after dead, imprisoned in Coldheart Canyon. In that place, with time and rules of its own, unspeakable horrors play in an endless loop, and for the the few people about to be trapped there, the only way out will be to win the fight against the mistress of Coldheart Canyon -- a former actress of the early 20th century, who's very much alive, powerful and young -- and powered by the secret that lies beneath her dream palace. If you're not afraid of being spooked, especially by the ghosts who will follow you out of the book to haunt the recesses of your everyday life, try this book. (And don't if you're queasy!)
I just finished this 600+ page book. It kept me with it, all the way to the end -- and I still wanted more. Like Barker's other fiction, this book is a mixture of fantasy & horror -- it's well written, and even after scary the hell out of you, it will make you want to keep picking it up. Barker creates a world inhabited by the ghosts of dead movie stars, that had led less than good lives -- their indulgences served to keep them alive after dead, imprisoned in Coldheart Canyon. In that place, with time and rules of its own, unspeakable horrors play in an endless loop, and for the the few people about to be trapped there, the only way out will be to win the fight against the mistress of Coldheart Canyon -- a former actress of the early 20th century, who's very much alive, powerful and young -- and powered by the secret that lies beneath her dream palace. If you're not afraid of being spooked, especially by the ghosts who will follow you out of the book to haunt the recesses of your everyday life, try this book. (And don't if you're queasy!)
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