Edenville
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- 8,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
Goosebumps meets Stephen King at Edenville College, where an aspiring horror novelist takes a teaching job and soon finds a blood-soaked town history, a secret society in the library basement, alternate dimensions and people who might actually be spiders…
When young horror writer Cam Marion is offered a teaching opportunity at a prestigious liberal arts college upstate, his long-time girlfriend Quinn is skeptical. She knows the college is located in Edenville, in infamous Renfield County. The county where people seem to go missing. The county where Quinn's high school best friend was mysteriously killed. Quinn figures the job opportunity is a trap somehow, so she follows Cam upstate to investigate some of the county's mysteries (including her own).
She quickly discovers that there's an entire society dedicated to solving Renfield's many riddles. A society that puts on plays dedicated to Renfield's macabre, blood-soaked history. A society that meets in the library basement once a week. A society made up of people who might not be people at all....Meanwhile, Cam discovers that his newest story idea isn't an idea so much as it is a vision of another world. A world that the faculty at Edenville College need his help to access before it accesses them.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rebelein's busy debut is part cosmic horror, part waggish satire of creative egos. After Cam P. Marion's first novel receives middling reviews and so-so sales, the perennially grouchy author—who recently has been afflicted by bizarre nightmares—is invited to become a writer-in-residence at Edenville College in Upstate New York, locally infamous as the site of several mysterious disappearances. Seized by career anxieties due to his book's reception, Cam jumps at the opportunity, but his girlfriend, Quinn, is suspicious from the get-go. Having grown up in a small town near Edenville, she was immersed in urban legends about the school, and her own college friend, Celeste, vanished years ago, last seen close to where Cam and Quinn would be living. Despite Quinn's hang-ups, Cam accepts the position, and the couple decamps to Edenville's creepy campus. Once there, Cam's nightmares intensify, and horrors linked to multiverses and the area's copious sunflowers start to reveal themselves. Will he and Quinn be the college's latest casualties? Rebelein sprinkles his wild and unpredictable narrative with pop culture references and a gleeful smattering of profanity ("The big oak fuck of a desk"), setting his voice apart. Unfortunately, his ideas don't quite hang together—Rebelein has imagination to spare, but the book eventually crosses over from ambitious to overstuffed. Readers will hope for a more focused sophomore effort.
