Simon Clark
Paperback | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.65 | 262 Users | 17 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Darkness Demands |
| ISBN: | 2914370512 (ISBN13: 9782914370516) |
| Edition Language: | French |
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John Newton est un écrivain de romans policiers à succès, spécialisé dans les meurtres non élucidés du passé. Il a une vie de famille heureuse avec sa femme et ses deux enfants. Ainsi qu’une jolie nouvelle maison à la campagne. La vie est belle pour John Newton…Jusqu’à ce que les lettres commencent à arriver.
Des lettres en vieil anglais, sinistres et mystérieuses. Des lettres qui profèrent des menaces et demandent d’étranges rançons. John pense d’abord à une blague.
Lourde erreur.
John Newton bascule alors dans une insupportable angoisse. La vie de sa famille est en jeu. Il est le seul à le savoir, le seul à pouvoir agir. Mais bientôt, John sera confronté à un dilemme insurmontable.
Car il est des sacrifices auxquels on ne peut se résoudre...
Un suspense insoutenable d’une efficacité imparable.
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| Title | : | La Rançon Des Ténèbres |
| Author | : | Simon Clark |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | June 17th 2003 by Bragelonne (first published January 28th 2001) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.65 From 262 Users | 17 ReviewsArticle Out Of Books La Rançon Des Ténèbres
Really interesting story that blends traditional horror and mystery. One of Clark's finest.Soyons clair dès le départ : je suis très très loin d'être un fan de littérature de terreur, et c'est un miracle que Bragelonne ait réussi à m'en faire apprécier un !Je fais un vrai blocage sur ce type de livre : ils ne me font tout simplement pas peur, pitié plutôt (exception faite à Lovecraft et aux premiers Anne Rice). Alors qu'est-ce qui a bien pu me faire aimer ce roman ? Et bien dans un premier temps, ces 330 pages se boivent comme du petit lait, si bien que j'ai même eu l'impression de
Another win from Mr Clark. Great, creepy, breathtaking horror...
I picked this book up at a used bookstore and didn't know anything about it or the author. Darkness Demands is a chilling story about a writer who moves to a new neighborhood near an ancient cemetery. He starts finding little notes demanding that he leave simple offerings--such as chocolate--on one of the graves. He scoffs at them at first, but in talking with the villagers he discovers that not doing as Baby Bones requests will result in some nasty retribution not only for him and his family,
Every corner of this novel was brilliant! (And it's a good thing, too, because I'd nearly kicked this author to the curb after a couple that were mildly disappointing and one that was horrendous.) It seems that what Simon Clark needed were multiple story lines to keep him busy. When a book has just one idea, he beats it into oblivion. It's somewhat in the tradition of the Asian horror (like The Ring) that was a craze around the same time this was written, where you have to solve the mystery of
It was an interesting story and I liked the way the author builds the suspense. I'm not quite sure why the author felt it was so important to throw in some gratuitous sex scenes - in fact, there doesn't seem to be any reason for the chapter depicting the son's relationship with his new girlfriend except for the sex. So that means a few useless chapters, but you don't realize you've been bamboozled until you finish the book and stop to think about it. I wish the ending had been a little
I loved this book and this horror genre.
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