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Cargando... The Summoning (1993)por Bentley Little
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book presents a unique approach to the vampire story by incorporating Chinese folklore. And as a bonus, it isn’t a romantic vampire story. This vampire is evil. However, the most compelling piece of the story may be the blind religious fanaticism that is explored which may be the scariest part of the book. Parts of the story drag on, and given the length of the book, could have been streamlined for a faster read. Or, taking another direction, some of the subplots could have been fleshed out to provide more suspense. But given this is one of the author’s earlier works, that can be forgiven as you get the quality of Bentley Little’s writing and imagination. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Fiction.
Horror.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:Darkness is descending on the small town of Rio Verde, Arizona. An evil older than time is rising from the desert, waiting for night to fall and a reign of terror to begin... Brad Woods has performed a lot of autopsies, but never one like this. The body is purged of all blood. Fear has made Sue Wing run from the darkened school and into night, a fear so powerful she can only name it using the Cantonese myths of her grandmother: Cup-hu-girngsi... the corspe who drinks blood. Reporters like Rich Carter don't believe in the supernatural, but all the signs are pointing to the same conclusion: a vampire is stalking the streets of Rio Verde. No, Rich Carter doesn't believe in such things. Not yet. But he will come to believe with a faith borne of horror after horror... No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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Bodies start to turn up in the small town of Rio Verde. Bodies that are drained of all their fluids. Relatively quickly people conclude that it is a vampire but the evil starts to influence the town people and worse things begin to happen.
While the big evil in this book is a vampire, it's not really a vampire book. More of a "something evil haunting a small city" book. As the title alludes, the book focuses more on the evil being summoned up in the towns people than to the source of the evil. In fact, the evil being a vampire is almost inconsequential since it could have been almost anything. The book does have another twist to the vampire lore though: the American legends are actually twisted information from Chinese folk lore and not everything works the same. So crosses and holy water don't work while sunlight still does. It might sound a bit contrived here but it works very well. Read it and see. ( )