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Gary A. Braunbeck
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In Silent Graves |
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English |
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Mass Market Paperback |
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384 |
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2004-04-01 |
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0843953292 |
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Leisure Books |
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0.41 pounds |
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4.14 x 6.82 x 1.05 inches |
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One moment, Robert Londrigan is a rising-star newscaster, devoted husband, and expectant father; the next, he's a widower in a morgue, staring at gaping holes in his daughter's body where surgeons have harvested every useful scrap of her organs and tissue. The rock-bottom falls out from under his life when a disfigured man knocks Robert out and steals what's left of her tiny corpse out from under his nose, and leaves a gruesome surprise waiting for him back home. Robert's search for the disfigured man leads him through a rapidly-fragmenting reality into a chiaroscuro world and the discovery that neither his wife nor his daughter are who he thought they were. Gary A. Braunbeck's work has earned, 7 Bram Stoker Awards, an International Horror Guild Award, 3 Shocker Awards, a Black Quill Award, and a World Fantasy Award nomination.
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karichards (USA: IN) (2015/09/07):
“In Silent Graves” is essentially a gothic horror about the Pied Piper, yet simultaneously a romance concerning both the beauty and the ugliness of true, unconditional love. Braunbeck litters his story with a cornucopia of artistic references, philosophical and spiritual musings, creating a tale that is both timeless and contemporary. He spins a schizophrenic, narcissistic dreamcatcher’s web of a novel with layer upon layer of his own fantastical mythology. If Frankenstein and Alice procreated in Wonderland, the result would be the protagonist of “In Silent Graves.” “In Silent Graves” is different, very, very strange, and grotesque. Get ready for a mind-bender.
While I wasn’t a huge fan of the monologues or the dialogue itself in general, it did provide a tone reminiscent of classic gothic horror authors, such as Shelley and Poe. I read the final pages while listening to Nitzinger’s “ONE FOOT INHISTORY” for the first time. I will read this author again, if for nothing else but his gift for telling a unique story. A few typos exist throughout the novel.
Sept 2015
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