The Uncanny by Andrew Klavan (originally published: January 1998; ebook: May 2011)
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Overview: Andrew Klavan reinvents the classic ghost story with 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 a 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.
Genre: Fiction, Literary Suspense, Supernatural
"Few people can resist a ghost story, and this one by two-time Edgar Award winner Klavan is bewitching. Set in England, with the requisite crumbling abbey haunted by a nun, it concerns a man’s demonic quest for eternal life. Klavan updates the old-fashioned ghost story to include a Hollywood producer protagonist, the Nazi theft of some of Europe’s best art, and a religious cult. The plot moves forward smoothly, the characters are plausible, and the literary quotes are enriching. Most noteworthy, though, is the structure; the storyline is interrupted several times by ancient ghost stories. Intriguing in their own right, they also hold important clues to the current mystery’s solution. Recommended for most collections." ~Library Journal"Andrew Klavan, who has a perfect sense of timing, delivers all the cliffhangers and hairpin turns that you want from a beat-the-clock suspense thriller. But his characters are so deeply human that there is nothing cheap or manipulative about their desperate maneuvers to escape the relentless second hand of fate." ~New York Times Book Review
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