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Title: The Night Class by Tom Piccirilli ISBN: 0843951257 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31
Rating: 5
Summary: A macabre mixture of horror and mystery
Comment: Few writers are as talented as Tom Piccirilli when creating an all-consuming atmosphere of dread. Even the most innocent details can have touches of evil. Here he turns campus life on its head and topples it over, giving us one night in the life of a student who finds that nothing in his academic world has been what it seems.
Cal Prentiss returns from the winter break to find that a girl has been murdered in his dorm room. Half-heartedly, he decides to write about his fantasies of her as his senior thesis. Is her ghost, and the spirit of his dead sister, actually haunting Cal or is he simply coming apart as he prepares to enter "the real world"? Another bit of weirdness is tossed in: Cal suffers from stigmata whenever someone on campus dies.
And from that single plot element Piccirilli takes us on a frenzied investigation into the heart of university malevolence and student activities of the most bizarre kind. This edition is also signed by the author and artist, which makes it that much more worthwhile.
Rating: 5
Summary: A horror novel about true terror
Comment: Horror novels often rely on shock and gore, but there's another breed of book out there that is more quiet and subtle. The quiet horror is sometimes more chilling and important than all the blood-letting. The Night Class relies on heavy mood and atmosphere to create its unsettling effects (a la Tessier, T.M. Wright, Algernon Blackwood). Piccirilli (Hexes, A Lower Deep, The Deceased) has written his most taut and gripping novel yet. The scene is a college campus in the dead of winter haunted by ghosts and a mysterious murder. It is a psychologically astute tale with plenty of terrific shivers along the way. Piccirilli digs down deep to create a world slightly askew from the norm, where almost everything is menacing or offbeat. Top-notch suspense with a lot of spookiness and horrific moments, you can't do any better than taking The Night Class.
Rating: 5
Summary: Dark literary horrific crime tale
Comment: Seldom have I read a novel that packed so much into such a relatively short amount of space. This book is horror, crime, noir, and full-out literature in the finest sense of the word. Thrills and chills spill out of Piccirilli's pen to enwrap you in a tale bizarre and yet so familiar. What college student hasn't felt like a complete outsider at one point or another? Who hasn't felt haunted during the gloom of deepest winter? Piccirilli offers us this solid mystery of a man hunting a killer and yet provides so much more: touches of the supernatural, satirical commentary on the nature of higher education, and an absolutely heartbreaking finale. Take this night class and prepare to learn!
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Title: Atmosphere by Michael Laimo ISBN: 0843950412 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Fallen by Dale Bailey ISBN: 0451207637 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Forgotten by Tamara Thorne ISBN: 078601475X Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Hour Before Dark by Douglas Clegg ISBN: 0843950447 Publisher: Dorchester Pub Co Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Under the Overtree by James A. Moore ISBN: 0843951109 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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