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All the Fiends of Hell

Auteur(s): Adam Nevill
Narrateur(s): Kris Dyer
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The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the morning is no blessing. The handful of scattered survivors are confronted by blood-red skies and an infestation of predatory horrors that never originated on earth. An occupying force intent on erasing the remnants of animal life from the planet. Across the deserted landscapes of England, bereft of infrastructure and society, the overlooked can either hide or try to outrun the infernal hunting terrors. Until a rumour emerges claiming that the sea may offer an escape.

Ordinary, unexceptional, directionless Karl, is one of the few who made it through the first night. In the company of two orphans, he flees south. But only into horrifying revelations and greater peril, where a transformed world and expanding race of ravening creatures await. Driven to the end of the country and himself, he must overcome alien and human malevolence and act in ways that were unthinkable mere days before.

All The Fiends of Hell is a novel of alien horror from the four times winner of the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel.

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Adam Nevill isn't for everyone. He'll ratchet up horror and tension, piling physical and mental trauma onto his characters. Relief sometimes comes a bit too late, as it does here, though it does come. Henry James might say he sometimes turns the screw a half-turn too many. Still, an enjoyable riff on works like 28 DAYS LATER, THE WALKING DEAD, and THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, in which an invalid awakes to find the whole world changed.

Solid cosmic horror

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Thrilling to be sure, with excellent depictions of horrors that tax the imagination. Narrator's affectations reminded me of James from Vanderpump Rules, which was a bit disturbing, but it was worth enduring. Doesn't have a "satisfying" ending in that ambiguity reigns. Is it aliens invading? Terraforming? End times demonic plague? Your protagonist is an everyman trying to survive in an unremarkable location on dying planet. You'll only ever know as much as him, and he knows little to nothing at all.

A thrilling journey, but not a neat package.

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It felt a little like The Road, and I don't mean that in a derivative sense. I found it refreshing as the characters were all flawed, and I think it took courage to make that choice. Often in this "genre", I find if the protagonist doesn't become some hardened vet, then they are thought of as weak. Where, I really don't think many of us would respond as well to horrors as we'd like to imagine.

My only main critique would be that it did feel a little aimless until near the very end. But that partly comes with the territory of not having some uber-Rambo Protagonist.

I was hoping to explore the world more at the end, so I hope there is a sequel.

Believable characters

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One chapter was interesting and it’s the first… the rest was drivel and nothing else happens.

Put the thesaurus down…

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