Only the Devil Is Here
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- ¥800
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- ¥800
発行者による作品情報
"A gripping, cinematic supernatural thriller, shot through with unsettling imagery and startling insights into the nature of good and evil." —David Demchuk, Sunburst Award–winning author of The Bone Mother
Kidnapped from his foster home, six-year-old Evan desperately searches for a way to escape his brutally violent captor, Rook. Armed with supernatural abilities, Rook is no ordinary man, but then Evan is no ordinary boy. And it soon becomes clear that on their frantic journey through a world teeming with unimaginable horrors and unnatural predators, Rook is Evan's only hope for survival . . .
"With Only the Devil Is Here, Stephen Michell announces himself as a new and powerful presence on the literary horror scene. This is curt, violent, poetic storytelling, a Cormac McCarthyesque journey from darkness into even deeper darkness, suffused from moment one on with gothic nighttime awe and terror yet also shot through with the slimmest threads of hope—intimations of numinosity, if not of salvation." —Gemma Files, Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of Spectral Evidence
"Michell subtly upends expectations with a genuinely insightful examination of the essence of good and evil. By the novel's end, Michell delivers an invigorating chase story, a suspenseful horror-action hybrid with memorably warped characters, and terrific B-movie cinematic flair." —Publishers Weekly
"How Rook acquired his superhuman strength and came to accept his unholy mission are just two of the many revelations Michell has in store for readers. Better still is the poignant father-son relationship that slowly builds between Rook and the orphaned Evan, who is also gifted with supernatural powers. A very promising debut from a new author to watch." —Toronto Star
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Michell's mystical horror novel is a promising debut that leads off with a shocking kidnapping and rarely pauses for breath. Evan is a six-year-old child abducted by Rook, a terrifying brute. After killing Evan's foster parents, Rook warns the boy, "I'm faster and stronger than any normal man... I am like no other thing in this world." Rook is "one with the darkness," a man with supernatural abilities that come at a price: every use of his power costs him a piece of his memory. Evan quickly learns that he is the target of a mysterious religious order, and the ferocious Rook is the only thing standing in its way. As the duo flee dangerous priests and people possessed by demons across a frigid Canadian landscape towards an unknown destination, Michell subtly upends expectations with a genuinely insightful examination of the essence of good and evil. By the novel's end, Michell delivers an invigorating chase story, a suspenseful horror-action hybrid with memorably warped characters, and terrific B-movie cinematic flair.
