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Originally Posted by Rakosh
Banquet for the Damned - Adam L. G. Nevill
Supernatural horror with everything I love in the genre: Lovecraftian dread without an excess of blood, occult philosophy, references to Crowley, British/Scottish setting, and BONUS- intelligent metal heads from Birmingham, UK, as two of the main characters!
I'm only about 130 pages in, but it's one of the better Brit-horror books I've read in a long time (Ramsey Campbell included). It's well written, and the characters aren't morons (eg: when they hear inhuman screams in the middle of the night, they don't go investigate  ). There's tons of atmosphere, and I can't help but imagine those classic psychological horror movies like The Wicker Man as I read it. Horror fans keep an eye out for this when it hits the US in September in paperback!
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As a follow up, I just wanted to say that
Banquet for the Damned held up til the end...something a lot of horror novels don't do. Good stuff!
Also I got a cool little email from the author (after I sent a work-related email to Virgin Books' marketing dept about the book) saying I got the influences/comparisons pretty close to his intentions: "
I wanted Banquet to be a novel like Peter Straub’s Ghost Story, but with occult horror overtones like M R James’s Edwardian ghost stories, and The Wicker Man (it’s also set in Scotland). "
Nice...Even if I didn't work for Virgin's distributor, I'd still be plugging this book!
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