The Night Church

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I i ' "Whitley Strieber is probably the most serious and originál of the new wave of horror writers. "The Night Church is a wild old girl of a book, all riglit, and the wildness comes right out of the originál conception-the death by blowtorch, the whiff of bubonic plague, a sinister Lourdes, demons shucking off their humán skin-all of this follows directly from the central notion of an anti-church existing alongside the Catholir, Chnrch during all the past centuries. Strieber has tied eveiything together so well that we happily anept even his most extravagant inventions, and anybody who has read The Hunger knows that he is indeed an extravagant { inventor." -Peter Straub f ' 1 ! f . íásS • • i '/' t
By day Holy Spirit is parish center to the folk of Richmond Hill and Kew Gardens in New York's very mundane borough of Queens. By day Father Harry Goodwin serves his dwindling flock of Irish and Italian widows and struggles vainly to meet his bilis. By night the Spirit is host to quite... Tovább

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I i ' "Whitley Strieber is probably the most serious and originál of the new wave of horror writers. "The Night Church is a wild old girl of a book, all riglit, and the wildness comes right out of the originál conception-the death by blowtorch, the whiff of bubonic plague, a sinister Lourdes, demons shucking off their humán skin-all of this follows directly from the central notion of an anti-church existing alongside the Catholir, Chnrch during all the past centuries. Strieber has tied eveiything together so well that we happily anept even his most extravagant inventions, and anybody who has read The Hunger knows that he is indeed an extravagant { inventor." -Peter Straub f ' 1 ! f . íásS • • i '/' t
By day Holy Spirit is parish center to the folk of Richmond Hill and Kew Gardens in New York's very mundane borough of Queens. By day Father Harry Goodwin serves his dwindling flock of Irish and Italian widows and struggles vainly to meet his bilis. By night the Spirit is host to quite another constituency: a huge, rich and gaudy congregation that meets for rituals of a very diíferent kind. In the small hours Holy Spirit offers no sanctuary to the innocent. For Jonathan Titus Bánion and Patrícia Murray, solving the riddle of the Night Church and their role in its ancient hierarchy is a matter of life and death-for themselves and for civilization as we know it. Whitley Strieber, author of The Wolfen and The Hunger, has been praised by Peter Straub for his "pure and originál invention." Nowhere are these powers more dramatically in evidence than in this eerie növel of an alternate church-a church with its roots in the plague-ridden darkness of the Middle Ages and its sinister tentacles in the technological future, a church eternally at war with the militant priests of the Holy Inquisition. The Night Church may possess you. Vissza