Unspeakable: dark horror from a true master
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Child welfare officer Holly Summers is deaf, but she has an amazing talent for lip-reading – a talent the police are very happy to call upon in difficult criminal investigations.
Using her unique gift to help the police investigate the recent disappearances of a string of women, Holly does not suspect that one of the enemies she's made in her day job has vowed a supernatural vengeance. The horror begins when the one person Holly is cares about is targeted: her precious daughter...
'One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time' PETER JAMES.
'A true master of horror' JAMES HERBERT.
Graham Masterton
Graham Masterton (born 1946, Edinburgh) is a British horror author. Originally editor of Mayfair and the British edition of Penthouse, Graham Masterton's first novel The Manitou was published in 1976 and adapted for the film in 1978. Further works garnered critical acclaim, including a Special Edgar award by the Mystery Writers of America for Charnel House and a Silver Medal by the West Coast Review of Books for Mirror. He is also the only non-French winner of the prestigious Prix Julia Verlanger for his novel Family Portrait, an imaginative reworking of the Oscar Wilde novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Masterton's novels often contain visceral sex and horror. In addition to his novels, Masterton has written a number of sex instruction books, including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed and Wild Sex for New Lovers. Visit www.grahammasterton.co.uk
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Holly Summers is deaf but she lipreads very well so really her deafness is not an obstacle. She works as a child welfare officer and sometimes moonlights for the Police in Portland to help with criminal investigations. She's also a single mother trying to raise her child and work out how much she could give to another person if she dated them.This is a dual story about a group of successful missing women and some of Holly's cases that are causing her a lot of grief. The story rattles along at a breakneck speed but I felt cheated at the end.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5IMHO this author is one of the best in horror fiction. His books are nightmarish, shocking and scary.Back Cover Blurb:Holly Summers is deaf, but she 'hears' thanks to her immense talent for lip-reading. A child welfare officer, Holly moonlights for the Portland, Oregon, police, using her unique gift to aid in criminal investigations - including one into the case of a recent string of women who have vanished without a trace.Witnessing unimaginable evil in the abuse cases she handles, Holly fights every day to salvage broken young lives. But her good works spark plenty of enemies; someone has targeted this avenging angel with a supernatural vow to harm her. And the terror begins when Holly's young daughter disappears.Fending off the shadows of an unearthly predator and the very real threats facing a woman in a man's world, Holly must listen to her deepest instincts for survival - to save the one person for whom she is living.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Of late Masterton is turning out light reads, both in terms of horror and in genre. There are still American Indian references, yet the usual bone-chilling terror is not present. This said however, Unspeakable does not follow any expected paths; it's unpredictable, wily and at times quite shocking. When the central protagonist of the tale is deaf, you should know that Masterton is using that a vehicle to create scenarios that will unnerve you, and he does this, not consistently, but enough to remind you that he has the book has the potential to be nasty if it needed to be. That is the crux. Unspeakable is not a horror book, yet a dark and unsettling tale of the horror in our world, the danger we pose to our children , and with only a faint supernatural background. It'll grab your interest, and fill a few hours (it's only a short book) and is a worthy addition to your Masterton library, but it's not strictly horror.