Secrets of the Dead
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- 5,49 €
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- 5,49 €
Description de l’éditeur
Tombs are sealed shut for a reason. Opening them can have terrifying consequences . . .
John Tolworth is delighted when he is hired to help investigate a collection of mummified bodies found in the notorious Gold Tomb in Egypt. Not only is he intrigued by the work, but the collection is stored in an ancient castle in Devon, where John spent his childhood. He looks forward to revisiting the area, and to showing his family the place he grew up.
But when John and his family arrive at Baverstock Castle, John starts to remember things. Things he had forgotten. What happened the last time he was there? And why is Philip Kemmis, the former owner of the castle, and John’s childhood companion, now a raving madman?
As the mummified bodies begin to reveal their ancient secrets, John begins to think the unthinkable . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Nightwalking mummies and sadistic drug lords make awkward bedfellows in this slow-going supernatural mystery from British Fantasy Award-winner Clark (Her Vampyrrhic Heart). Archaeological photographer John Tolworth is a happily married father of three. He comes home to Devon to assist in identifying the enigmatic "Gold Tomb" mummies of Baverstock Castle, apparently untroubled by the weird events at Baverstock that left his childhood friend Philip Kemmis physically and psychologically shattered. Confronted with impossible data, osteo archaeologist Samantha Oldfield becomes convinced of some uncanny impending "convergence" between the ancient mummies and John's own family. When violent thug Micky Dunt comes seeking one of John's children to pay off a debt, the distant past and the immediate future are set for a fatal collision. Clark's plain prose adequately evokes the bodily horror of mummification and the unquiet dead, but laborious recaps and info dumps slacken the pace until even a late-breaking illumination of this "lethal loop of events" arrives as one more flat expository statement.
