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 Painmaker - Joseph Armstead
Newest Review: ... criminal case concerning the local cult called "The Sons of The Shape". The upscale bedroom commnunity has been ... more  ... touched by darkness and hasn't yet recovered when a group of urban gunrunning criminals decide to hide in-town from the law. The criminals have come across an arcane "Object of Power" called "the Chimera Link" and one ofthem, their gritty lantern-jawed leader, has learned how to tap the Reality-altering power within the artifact. Elsewhere in the community, a very troubled priest, a psychologist, is trying to mete out some comfort to the survivors of the psycho-sexual terrorism of the &quo...more |
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Painmaker - Joseph Armstead: An Epic Grand Guignol Horror Thriller (586 words)
by - written on 16/02/03 (Very useful, 63 readings)
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Joseph Armstead is one of the "New Wave" of horror fiction authors, an American I believe, who seems to specialize in very cinematic, very dramatic, complexly-plotted novels that bring dark and conflicted characters into conflict with the Great and Evil Unknown. The topic of Alienation pops up frequently in his work, alienation from society, from sirituality, from general morality, and from physical safety. On the surface his books seem to be an odd blending of adventure thriller with "X-Files"-stle horror/conspiracy elements and Hong Kong action thriller with political intrigue. But his characters and their travails are very disturbing. ... Read the complete review
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