The Bookshop from Hell

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The Bookshop from Hell

Auteur(s): David Haynes

Narrateur(s): Jeff Harding

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Horror is what Dan Law enjoys. He loves to read horror novels as a way to escape from his teaching job, from his loneliness, from the everyday dullness of life in Silver Lake. That’s what Dan lives for. When a new bookstore opens in town, every visitor receives a free book of their own. A book that tells their own personal story...a story they have to follow to the brutal end. As Silver Lake’s population descends into violent savagery, Dan finds he is no longer living for horror novels - he’s living inside one.

©Lilian Jackson Braun (P)2020 W. F. Howes Ltd

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This David Haynes book is partly an homage to Horror Literature aficionados. Well-read readers will recognize reference after reference to giants in the spine-chiller pantheon & their works (modern mainstays like King.. but also legends like Poe, Lovecraft, and M.R. James). The plot is basically Hollywood Screenplay-quality at best but very satisfying.
An evil immortal Demon (named 'Castevet'.. yes, like the head cultist in Ira Levin's 'Rosemary's Baby') opens a bookshop in a sleepy rural American town and gives away personalized cursed tomes to the citizens.. folios that tap into their deepest desires and drive them to rape, murder, and mutilate their neighbors - feeding the souls of their victims to the monster.
The book requires some suspension of disbelief - there are a lot of holes in the largely unoriginal plot - and the characters are caricaturish.. but the gritty realism of the dialogue and mind's-eye vivid description make 'The Bookshop From Hell' enjoyably cinematic.

As to presentation: reader Jeff Harding overdoes it with cartoonish voice-acting, but his professional diction/timbre/cadence and admirably interested tone largely make up for the deficiencies.
In toto, QUEST Audio/W.F. Howes cast this project "passably".

I rate this gore-infused well-paced rollercoaster-ride "scary" story 8 stars out of 10. It was a great find on the 'Plus' menu.. even worth a Credit to any Horror fan willing to sink into the right mindset. Can recommend.