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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780451192257
ISBN number: 0451192257
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: October 01, 1999
Publishing house: Signet
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Strange things are happening in the small town of Randall, Arizona. And as darkness falls, an itinerant preacher has arrived to spread a gospel of cataclysmic fury...And stranger things are yet to come...
Praise for The Revelation
'A nail-biting, throat-squeezing, nonstop plunge into darkness and evil. I guarantee, once you start reading this book, you'll be up until dawn.' --Rick Hautala
'Grabs the reader and yanks him along through an ever-worsening landscape of horrors...a terifying ride with a shattering conclusion.'
--Gary Brandner
'The Revelation isn't just a thriller, it's a shocker. A must for those who like horror with a bite.'
--Richard LaymonSales Points
* Winner of the Bram Stoker Award, given by the Horror Writers of America
* 'Unlike anything else in popular fiction.'--Stephen King
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I didn't realize while reading this book that it is Mr. Little's very first novel. That explains, I suppose, why this book didn't grab me from the start like his later stuff.
This book was ok, but I found myself speed reading through most of it. It just couldn't hold my interest much.
I'm surprised it won an award. "Dispatch" and "The Ignored" are much better and more original. If any Bentley Little books deserve awards, those two do.
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Read this book and you have the basic idea of ALL Little books with the exceptions of The Ignored and Dispatch.
A fairly normal family somewhere in the Arizona region. Strange events begin. Unbelief! Absurd monster creature enters (zombie-babies in this one, but others include satanic postmen, Jesus-looking vampires, winemaking she-devils, evil store managers, etc). The endings usually include a fist-fight with said demonic monster or comically evil businessman. Don't forget some S&M.
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This was the very first book I bought my Bentley Little and I loved it. Once I started reading, I couldnt put it down. I read the whole thing in one night. The story seemed to flow like I was there. Ever since then, I've been a big Little fan and have all his books, even the digital versions.
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This is the second novel I've read by Mr. Little. I read The Store four years ago and was disappointed by bland characters doing lots of stuff. The Revelation is certainly imaginative, but Gordon and crew are also featureless and rather boring. A story is pinned to characters, right? No matter how many giant fetuses rise from the soil, I didn't care about Gordon and Brother Elias. They have no grooves on which to pin a story. I did read a short story by Little entitled "The Sanctuary" a few months ago which was fantastic. Hit and miss, I suppose.
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This book, the author's debut novel, went on to garner a Bram Stoker Award. Since then, the author has gone on to win many admirers, including Stephen King, who has lavishly praised this author's body of work. There is little doubt that this author is a master storyteller, and this debut novel gave readers portents of the novels that were to come. In the horror fiction genre there are few who equal this author's ability to pull together an imaginative and interesting story.
In Randall, Arizona, a small, sleepy town in the northern part of the state, strange things are occurring. Evil seems to be making itself known amongst the townspeople, rearing its ugly head in the unlikeliest of places. The minister and his family seem to have mysteriously vanished overnight, and his church is desecrated, covered with blasphemous scrawls the like of which the town has never seen. Women are miscarrying or giving birth top grotesquely deformed babies. Townspeople are found murdered in unimaginable ways. Then an unknown fire and brimstone preacher arrives, warning the townspeople that an ancient battle between good and evil will take place in Randall. The only question is who will win the battle?
Those who enjoy the horror fiction genre will find much to like about this book. The action is fairly well-paced, and there is enough horror to go around. Although there are some unanswered questions, as there always seem to be in the author's novels, and the ending is not as interesting as the events that lead up to it, the book is, nonetheless, a fairly entertaining work of horror fiction.
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