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Title: Low Red Moon by Caitlin R. Kiernan ISBN: 0-451-45948-2 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Low Red Moon
Comment: The protagonists of Threshold return in a very different story, an original and chilling take on werewolves. Low Red Moon stands alone; you don't have to have read Threshold to understand it.
It's interesting to watch an author learn and develop skills. Kiernan's writing has improved dramatically since her first published novel, Silk; there are still shiny stylistic twists, but there's also a solid, high-tension plot (better paced than Threshold) and well-realized, believable characters.
Many things are well done here: the sentence-level writing, the way the dark secrets hidden at the book's center are revealed just enough to make sense, but not enough to lose their effect. Narcissa, the "villain", is a complex character in her own right. The story's resolution will not please readers who want happy endings, but I liked it.
I wanted more of the paleontology, wanted it worked into the story (which it is in Threshold more than in this book) rather than just being a character trait - it's interesting, original and has lots of horror potential.
It's really good to know that someone is writing intelligent, stylish New Horror. I recommend this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Haunting Fiction
Comment: Caitlin Kiernan has outdone herself yet again! Low Red Moon is a perfect example of her surreal, yet gritty and earthy, fiction. Each character of Low Red Moon is finely etched, so that you *feel* what they feel as the story progresses and the horror mounts. The reader is drawn quickly onward into the madness, never quite sure *who's* madness it is. Deke shows us that our flaws are what make us human, and the reader loves him for that. The tension builds as things unseen are seen, and you fear for each character's fate. The conclusion of this story is heartbreaking, yet uplifting in its humanity. Five Stars for Kiernan's best work to date! If you've never read her fiction before, or want to give a book to someone as a gift, this novel is a great place to start.
Rating: 5
Summary: Oh What Is The Land Of Dreams...
Comment: When a psychic tracks down a serial killer and saves a victim most would call it a job well done. But for Deacon Silvey it turns into a nightmare. Asked to do a favor for the Birmingham police, Deacon becomes the target of a dark hunt, facing both the revenge of the old ones and the hopes of another killer to fulfill a dream of ascension. Had he been the only target, Deacon might have been able to stand firm, but the demon with yellow eyes has a ritual to perform - on those that Deacon loves.
Deacon is an ex-alcoholic, trying to start a new life with Chance, his very pregnant young wife. When he seeks help with the dark visions that have begun to plague him, death follows his trail. Chance is a practical woman and a scientist - a paleontologist. She barely believes in her husbands powers and now finds she is having visions of her own. She is torn between her own bloody nightmares and her fears that Deacon will succumb to his own demons. A deep wedge is being driven between them and only catastrophe can follow.
My first encounter with Caitlen Kiernan was Silk, her freshman novel. While chilling and interesting in its own right, Silk pales beside Low Red Moon, Kiernan's third. The events of this novel would be terrifying on their own, but Kiernan has learned to blend subconscious fears and a modern mythology with echoes of Lovecraft into a concoction as suspenseful and doom-filled as anything I've read in years.
Dream and reality crisscross in splashes of blood, characters refuse to follow any stereotype, and the Southern gothic horror story gets an infusion of new ideas. Kiernan displays a command of language that transcends her chosen genre. The reader, of course, is the beneficiary, nose buried in a book that is both too chilling to read and impossible to put down. If this is your introduction to Kiernan, brace yourself, you will soon be hunting up everything she has written.
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Title: Threshold: A Novel of Deep Time by Caitlin R. Kiernan ISBN: 0451458583 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 07 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Five of Cups by Caitlin R. Kiernan ISBN: 1931081808 Publisher: Subterranean Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Liquor: A Novel by Poppy Z. Brite ISBN: 1400050073 Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Tales of Pain and Wonder by Caitlin Kiernan, Richard A. Kirk, Caitlin R. Kiernan ISBN: 189206538X Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers by Caitlin R. Kiernan ISBN: 1931081484 Publisher: Subterranean Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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