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The Uncanny von Andrew Klavan
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The Uncanny (Original 1998; 1999. Auflage)

von Andrew Klavan (Autor)

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Fantasy. Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Andrew Klavan reinvents the classic ghost story with this literary X-Files, a breathtaking blend of Hollywood-style excitement and literary tour de force.
Richard Storm is a Hollywood producer who has reached the top of his profession making horror movies based on classic English ghost stories. Now, with his life beginning to unravel, he flees to England on a desperate quest: to find evidence that the great old stories bear an element of truth, that the human spirit lives on after death, that in this all-too-material world there still may be reason to have faith.
But his search uncovers more than he bargained for: Sophia Endering, a mysterious damsel in distress who may just be the last love of Storm's life; Harper Albright, an eccentric pipe-smoking old woman whose researches into the paranormal mask an obsessive hunt for a malevolent killer; and the man known as Saint Iago, a seemingly immortal villain who makes a night with a vampire look like a walk in the park.
Richard Storm's nightmares are about to step down off the screen into real life. And Storm is about to begin a journey through his deepest passions and his darkest fears, to a romance that could last forever, and a secret a thousand years old-down a trail formed by the classic ghost stories themselves-into the very heart of the uncanny.
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Titel:The Uncanny
Autoren:Andrew Klavan (Autor)
Info:Warner Books (1999), Edition: First Thus, 432 pages
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Then before you can say "conspiracy theory," Andrew Klavan has whipped all of them into a humorous confection with elements of German romantic art, English Gothic architecture, 19th-century ghost stories, Norse mythology, South American cult leaders, Nazi witchcraft, and the Holy Grail.

OOooohh! I had no idea it was supposed to be funny!

From his website: A modern re-invention of the classic English ghost story. Horror movie producer Richard Storm comes to England on a mission: to find evidence that the human spirit lives on after death. Linking up with Harper Albright, an eccentric pipe-smoking old woman who runs a magazine devoted to the paranormal, he begins an attempt to uncover the truth behind a series of classic ghost stories.

But Storm’s nightmares are about to step down off the screen into real life. He’s about to begin a journey through his deepest passions and his darkest fears, through a love stronger than death to a mystery older than time, down a path formed by the classic tales themselves into the very heart of the uncanny.
"Klavan pulls out all the stops . . . .The suspense is high, the fun factor higher." --Publishers Weekly

Yeah...it's amazing to me that two of his books have been turned into movies (Don't Say a Word with Michael Douglas and True Crime with Clint Eastwood - I've seen the first but not the latter, and now probably won't!)

This book was so lame and yet, like a trainwreck, I kept on watching/reading, whatever. The whole time I kept thinking that I was missing something, as if I had come into the middle of a series of books about one character - Harper. She keeps talking about this thing called The Uncanny, but we're never really told what the Uncanny is. (and yes, Uncanny is spelled with a capital U.) The St. Pete Times hailed this book as a sort of upscale X-Files. Sort of being the operative word, 'cuz it ain't nothing like the X-Files, unless you count the latest X-Files movie in which most of us X-Files fans were like, "WTF?"

Maybe if I had realized the book was all tongue in cheek I would have enjoyed it more, but I got it because I wanted a good ghost story. I got neither: good or a ghost story, just some lame folks running around after a bad guy named Iago. There was even some brief intro into some cult and grail stories, which got me excited only to be let down again.

This book was bad. I should say Bad, not Uncanny at all. ( )
  wendithegray | May 1, 2017 |
An excellent twist on the classic ghost story, this book will give you chills. ( )
  seldombites | Sep 12, 2012 |
When American horror film director Richard Storm first arrives in London, he has his own secret mission. Part vacation, part research, he finds renewed purpose in working at a magazine which features weird phenomena - Bizarre. The owner and editor is herself a curiosity and opens up a whole new world to Richard - a world of strange but true hauntings, ghost hunts and spirit worship. When Richard is first introduced to beautiful heiress Sophia Endering, he finds himself helplessly in love with her.

But Sophia is as dangerous to herself as she is for those who love her - for she has an almost unstoppable death wish. The smitten Richard follows Sophia through the labyrinth of her family's madness and their involvement in Nazi art thefts, down a trail formed by ghost stories more chilling then any that Richard could create for his movies.

This book was very good in parts, but I have to say that it was not one of my favorite books. I had some trouble following the plot and must say honestly that I'm still not entirely sure about certain parts of the story. Mareena got this book for me because she knew how much I had enjoyed True Crime, which is also by Andrew Klavan. I give this book an A! ( )
  moonshineandrosefire | Aug 11, 2012 |
Ennuyeux à force de vouloir être ésotérique à tout prix. ( )
  Ariane65 | Nov 25, 2009 |
Contrived. Overwrought. Disappointing. This is the only book by this writer that I have read (and probably the only one I will read) but I had the feeling that he could do better than he has in this book. It seems that he got rather caught up in his own cleverness, with stories within stories, and left his characters to degenerate into caricatures. Pity. ( )
  turtlesleap | Jan 13, 2008 |
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Fantasy. Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Andrew Klavan reinvents the classic ghost story with this literary X-Files, a breathtaking blend of Hollywood-style excitement and literary tour de force.
Richard Storm is a Hollywood producer who has reached the top of his profession making horror movies based on classic English ghost stories. Now, with his life beginning to unravel, he flees to England on a desperate quest: to find evidence that the great old stories bear an element of truth, that the human spirit lives on after death, that in this all-too-material world there still may be reason to have faith.
But his search uncovers more than he bargained for: Sophia Endering, a mysterious damsel in distress who may just be the last love of Storm's life; Harper Albright, an eccentric pipe-smoking old woman whose researches into the paranormal mask an obsessive hunt for a malevolent killer; and the man known as Saint Iago, a seemingly immortal villain who makes a night with a vampire look like a walk in the park.
Richard Storm's nightmares are about to step down off the screen into real life. And Storm is about to begin a journey through his deepest passions and his darkest fears, to a romance that could last forever, and a secret a thousand years old-down a trail formed by the classic ghost stories themselves-into the very heart of the uncanny.

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