The Uncanny
Written by Andrew Klavan
Narrated by Michael Page
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Richard Storm is passionate, hot-blooded, and running out of time. Sophia Endering is cool, beautiful, and haunted by a centuries-old mystery. Now the Hollywood filmmaker and the troubled young woman have come together in a race against the unbelievable, the unthinkable, and. . . The Uncanny.
Richard Storm reached the top of his profession producing horror films based on classic English ghost stories. Now, with his life beginning to unravel, Richard is searching for something to believe in. Fleeing Hollywood for London, he embarks on a desperate quest: to find evidence that the great old stories bear some truth, that the human spirit lives on after death.
What he finds is Sophia, a woman caught in a nightmare more chilling than any of his film horrors. Propelled by a furious love, haunted by a terror he can barely confess to himself, Storm pursues Sophia through the labyrinth of her family's madness and their involvement in Nazi art thefts, down a trail formed by the classic ghost stories themselves—into the very heart of the uncanny. . . .
Andrew Klavan
Andrew Klavan is an award-winning writer, screenwriter, and media commentator. An internationally bestselling novelist and two-time Edgar Award-winner, Klavan is also the host of a popular podcast on DailyWire.com, The Andrew Klavan Show. His work has been made into films starring Clint Eastwood, Michael Douglas, and Michael Caine. His essays on politics, religion, and culture have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, and elsewhere.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Uncharacteristically uninteresting. I like almost all of Klavan’s books, but this one takes a long time to get to a disappointing ending. I hoped the reviews were mistaken, but they were accurate, unfortunately.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Chilling , and beautifully written and voice acted. Raw and real.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An excellent twist on the classic ghost story, this book will give you chills.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5When 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!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Contrived. 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.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Not a classic, maybe, but one of my personal favorites in the GS genre. The insertion of ballads, 30's horror movie dialogue, a classic ghost story - serve to both move the story forward in a very original way, and entertain in their own right.- "She asked him why he hasn't been more malevolent since he died- because the revenants in his stories were always such terrible pills.." - any book that features the ghost of MR James so fondly gets a few stars from me.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Tollerable horror thriller that includes Templars, long life with sacrafice and gruesome murders. Nothing spectacular but not the worst I've read.