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Cold Moon over Babylon

Valancourt 20th Century Classics

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Welcome to Babylon, a typical sleepy Alabama small town, where years earlier the Larkin family suffered a terrible tragedy. Now they are about to endure another: 14-year-old Margaret Larkin will be robbed of her innocence and her life by a killer who is beyond the reach of the law.

But something strange is happening in Babylon: traffic lights flash an eerie blue, a ghostly hand slithers from the drain of a kitchen sink, graves erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror. And beneath the murky surface of the river, a shifting, almost human shape slowly takes form. Night after night it will pursue the murderer. And when the full moon rises over Babylon, it will seek a terrible vengeance.

Cold Moon Over Babylon, the second novel by Michael McDowell (1950-1999), author of Blackwater and The Elementals and screenwriter of Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas, is a chilling Southern Gothic tale of revenge from beyond the grave that ranks among his most terrifying books.

©2015 Valancourt Books (P)2016 Griff Furst Horreur
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The story is nothing new. A crime, a haunting, a revenge from beyond. A classic context is not bad per se, but no new angle is brought to it. Worst, the "horror" moments, while well described, are fairly repetitive, and the shock-scene ending is almost amateurish.
On the positive side, the places, life and people of a small south-east city are fleshed, detailed, and, from an outsider point of view, seem realistic
The narrator is excellent, and has a pleasant voice and rythm.

Excellent performance - Bland story

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