I don't think a great many of you are familiar with the novels and stories of Kaitlin R. Kiernan and that is a damn shame. In my humble opinion she's the most exciting talent to emerge in horror fiction in a long while and for once the raves on her books' covers from the likes of Clive Barker, Peter Straub and Neil Gaiman are absolutely accurate. Gaiman is quoted with: "A gift for language that borders on the scary." and I totally agree.
Her debut novel was SILK and she followed that up with THRESHOLD. Last month her third novel, LOW RED MOON, came out and I'd like to suggest you all pick it up ASAP.
LOW RED MOON is kind of a sequel to THRESHOLD but only in that it has the same characters in it. You don't have to have read THRESHOLD in order to get LOW RED MOON.
LRM is about a married couple. She's a paleontologist, he's mostly trying to stay sober and leave his alcoholic past behind. Then thing start to fall apart. She starts to have visions of blood everywhere and he is contacted by the police to help in a murder investigation because he is kind of a psychic and has done this kind of job before. Turns out there is a killer out there who may or may not be a werewolf and who apparently has an interest in the woman and her unborn child ...
But that is only scratching the surface, really. What made this book for me were the numerous Lovecraftian overtones like the book Cultes des Ghuls that has a cameo and how relentless Keirnan is when exploring seriously disturbing territory.
I don't want to give anything more away and I didn't start this post with the intention to write a review of the novel ...
Let's just say that LOW RED MOON get's the thumbs way up from me.
Her debut novel was SILK and she followed that up with THRESHOLD. Last month her third novel, LOW RED MOON, came out and I'd like to suggest you all pick it up ASAP.
LOW RED MOON is kind of a sequel to THRESHOLD but only in that it has the same characters in it. You don't have to have read THRESHOLD in order to get LOW RED MOON.
LRM is about a married couple. She's a paleontologist, he's mostly trying to stay sober and leave his alcoholic past behind. Then thing start to fall apart. She starts to have visions of blood everywhere and he is contacted by the police to help in a murder investigation because he is kind of a psychic and has done this kind of job before. Turns out there is a killer out there who may or may not be a werewolf and who apparently has an interest in the woman and her unborn child ...
But that is only scratching the surface, really. What made this book for me were the numerous Lovecraftian overtones like the book Cultes des Ghuls that has a cameo and how relentless Keirnan is when exploring seriously disturbing territory.
I don't want to give anything more away and I didn't start this post with the intention to write a review of the novel ...
Let's just say that LOW RED MOON get's the thumbs way up from me.
