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| Original Title: | In Silent Graves |
| ISBN: | 0843953292 (ISBN13: 9780843953299) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Gary A. Braunbeck
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 378 pages Rating: 3.79 | 722 Users | 97 Reviews
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Robert Londrigan seems to have it all. He is a newscaster with a rising career. He has a beautiful wife, Denise, and a new baby on the way. But in just a few short hours Robert's world is turned upside down. And the torment only gets worse when his daughter's body is stolen from the morgue by a strange, disfigured man....Robert is about to begin a journey into a world of nightmare, an unimaginable world of mystery, horror and revelation. He will learn, from both the living and the dead, secrets about this world and things beyond this world. Though his journey will be grotesque, terrifying and heartbreaking, he will not be allowed to stop. But can he survive with his mind intact? Can he survive at all?
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| Title | : | In Silent Graves (Cedar Hill #1) |
| Author | : | Gary A. Braunbeck |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 378 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 2004 by Leisure Books |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fantasy. Fiction. Thriller |
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Ratings: 3.79 From 722 Users | 97 ReviewsCritique Appertaining To Books In Silent Graves (Cedar Hill #1)
Gary Braunbeck may have just become one of my favorite authors.This is one heck of a story. It follows Robert Londrigan, a TV journalist, who loses his wife and daughter in childbirth. What follows is a nightmarish odyssey as his world slips into the surreal and grotesque.This premise reminded me of a novel I read a long time ago, calledFear, by L. Ron Hubbard. I didn't much care for it. I find some stories that involve alternate planes of existence get way too out there, to thepoint were I'mI hardly know where to start, this book was such a mess. You know the worst part about it? There are good ideas here that are poorly executed. The plot reads like a strange cross between Clive Barker's Sacrament (also not recommended) and Richard Matheson's What Dreams May Come. I don't understand the reviewers calling this book literary horror, did we read the same book? The reviews on the book cover also sound like they're from another book, or possibly written by friends of the author.
Feeding my horror novel addiction - I have branched out to lesser known authors of "literary horror," since I've read all Stephen King has to offer. This one is pretty compelling - a news anchor comes home one spooky Halloween night to find his pregnant wife in the throes of a mortal wound. Strange and terrible things begin to happen - the novel plays with the concept of time, perception, angels, etc. As an aside, for those who like the horror genre but have run out of good fuel among the
Typically, books suffer from a strong beginning, a weak middle, and a meh ending. This one had a meh beginning, a super-strong middle, and a train wreck of an ending that went into my least-favorite train-wreck area of all: the transcendental.Plot: (Beginning) asshole something something wife tragically dead because he wasn't paying attention. (Middle) He starts to assemble the fact that he's a self-indulgent asshole and consider maybe, possibly, doing something about it, and helping other
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 daughters 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 whats left of her tiny corpse out from under his nose, and leaves a gruesome surprise waiting for him back home.Roberts search for the disfigured
Robert Londrigan has a great reputation as a newscaster. He has a beautiful wife Denise, with a baby on the way. Denise and Robert have a terrible argument and Robert storms out of the house. Robert, goes to a near by park where he can cool off. When he returns to their home, he discovers that Denise has collapsed on the floor and was bleeding. Both his wife and his unborn child die. Robert discovers that someone has stolen the body of his unborn child from the morgue. Robert, will find out
This is probably one of the most lyrical, moving novels in the genre of horror, though more accurately, it's probably dark fantasy.This is the story of a man who has lost everything--his wife, his unborn child, his reason for being. The book follows his attempts to find meaning after hope is lost, to bring back those he loves, and finally, to help those who are still alive and in need of his compassion and grace.I can't recommend this book enough. If I could give it ten stars, I would, it's that
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