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Bezig met laden... Escardy Gap (1996)door Peter Crowther, James Lovegrove (Auteur)
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A former bestselling author sits at the typewriter day after day, fearing his talent spent, unable to produce a sentence. The typewriter taunts him, and he abandons it for days until the night he hears the sound. It is faint, at first, but grows louder. It reminds him of something he can't quite place. He begins to type, describing the sound - the first words he's written in months. On the page, a train appears far in the distance, speeding across the plains. As he continues to write, the train's destination appears on the horizon: a small town from the 1950s - Escardy Gap. Escardy Gap is a re-creation of the writer's hometown in the Midwest. The characters that begin to appear - Mayor Raymond, Station Master Walt - are all memories from his childhood. A pack of boys abandons their baseball game, running toward the unexpected train, and with a start the writer recognizes himself as one of them. Who or what is on the train and why it has come to Escardy Gap does not seem important. The words are flowing faster than they ever have. But the writer has a terrible sense of foreboding, and though something doesn't seem quite right about this train and its passengers, he can't stop writing. This may be the blockbuster novel that saves his career. Or it may be the beginning of his descent into madness as the disturbingly real creatures of his imagination threaten to take over both the story and his life. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The train arrives, unscheduled, at Escardy Gap, an isolated desert town in the 1950s. It's one of those quiet, friendly towns where everybody knows each other. The passengers present themselves as a troupe of entertainers, and are immediately welcomed into the homes and lives of the trusting residents. But it isn't long before Escardy Gap is faced with horrors beyond imagining, for its citizens aren't the ones for which the visiting Company is performing...
This is a solid enough horror story that reminded me of the work of King (the "everyman" characters), Bradbury (the nostalgic element) and maybe a little of Charles Grant as well. It takes a little while to get going but once the villains reveal their true faces it's hard to put down. I'm not sure the framing story of the writer was necessary. It allows for some meta-fictional developments towards the end, but it didn't entirely work for me. Still, it's worth a read if you like any of the other writers I've mentioned. ( )