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Title: A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli ISBN: 1-892389-58-4 Publisher: Nightshade Book Pub. Date: December, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Intelligent, dark southern gothic
Comment: Strong, believable but bizarre characters populate this weird and wonderful tale of a southern town haunted by swamp ghosts and granny witches. Piccirilli's prose is extremely powerful and often so beautiful that it sounds like music, grabbing us and dancing us along to its strange choir. One of the best literary dark fantasies I've read in recent years and bound to eventually be considered a classic by fans of the field.
Rating: 5
Summary: WOW ! WHAT A BOOK
Comment: This is really one of the best book's I've read. This is not so much horror as it is southern gothic and it is great. Tom Piccirilli weaves a twised tale of swamps, in-breading, granny-witches, and the town of Kingdom Come. Our hero? is Thomas and he with his three brothers (joined at the head) take us on a great ride through deaths, storms, love, and mutilation. This is a MUST READ. The limited edition also has a chap book that adds a chapter to the story, worth it if you can find it (limited to 100 signed copies). Tom Piccirilli is a great story teller and I hope he gives us more about Potts county and Kingdom Come.
Rating: 5
Summary: strong sinister drama
Comment: As much of a hold Thomas has on Kingdom Come, an inbred small town located in the Deep South, Kingdom Come in turn has as strong a hold on Thomas. His brothers Are Siamese twins that share a brain but have separate faces and bodies are his responsibility as is the mill of which he and the brothers are the owners. Thomas, the only mobile somewhat sane one, makes sure it is making a profit for it is the only source of income the town has.
Except for incest it's a place where anything goes. Thomas loves the woman who takes care of someone he once loved, but evil times are ahead for him as he learns why she spends all her time in the swamp. A child killer who Thomas left to die in the swamp returns to take his revenge and he finds the body of the child that the murderer killed with the body of his mother locked away in a trunk in a long forgotten room. His brothers disappear and the father he thought dead is alive though not of sound mind. Unable to solve the town's problems, Thomas quits feeling he is the savior of Kingdom's Come and in doing so finds his own freedom.
The main character in CHOIR OF ILL CHILDREN is the town of Kingdoms Come; a place that represents all the depravities that mankind is known to have accumulated as if Pandora opened the box here. Thomas accepts the inhabitants for who they are even though their customs and morality are outside the mainstream of society. Tom Piccirilli's dark gothic is frightening because it vividly exposes a way of life most people find abhorrent. Fans of Pappy Z. Brite will love this sinister drama.
Harriet Klausner
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Title: Low Red Moon by Caitlin R. Kiernan ISBN: 0451459482 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Night Class by Tom Piccirilli ISBN: 0843951257 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Darkest Part of the Woods by Ramsey Campbell ISBN: 0765307669 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Kissing Carrion by Gemma Files ISBN: 1894815637 Publisher: Prime Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Lost Boy, Lost Girl by PETER STRAUB ISBN: 1400060923 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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