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Mass Market Paperback Darker Book

ISBN: 0843949627

ISBN13: 9780843949629

Darker

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Book Overview

Writer Richard Young is looking forward to a week at home with his wife and their little daughter. He thinks it's going to be a pleasant time of barbecues and lazy summer days.It isn't.Because the stranger who arrives at their home, begging to be driven to the nearest police station, is being hunted. Hunted by something that cannot be seen, cannot be heard -- yet which has the power to move across the land and crushing flat everything in its path. Stalking -- and killing -- remorselessly.Within minutes, Richard Young, his family, and the stranger are being pursued relentlessly -- and running for their lives... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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5 customer ratings | 5 reviews

Rated 5 stars
My first Clark, and a superb read!

In Clark's thriller, the first book of his I read, there is a nameless sort of beast, a colossal entity. But having read half a dozen Clark novels now, the one thing that has not changed are his great characters! The book moves at a fast pace with chases and is very exciting.

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Rated 4 stars
A solid if not brilliant effort

Simon Clark is one of my favorite authors in the horror genre. Blood Crazy, King Blood, and Vamphyrric are all superb, unique, and amazing works. Darker, like his first novel Nailed by the Heart, suffers from a certain vagueness that occasionally crops up in Clark's work.The characters here must face an overwhelming evil force and though we grow to like our protagonists, I found it difficult to truly understand them. Every...

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Rated 5 stars
The Price of Power

Not Since James Herbert's "Magic Cottage" have I enjoyed a horror novel so much. Clark is a magnificent writer. He is one of few who can pull the reader in so completely and effortlessly. I liked all the characters, even the villian Michael, with those kind gentle down turned eyes. My favorite character was that of Rosemary Snow, a brave young woman who becomes more and more powerful as the story unfolds. I am new to...

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Rated 5 stars
Another excellent book by Simon Clark

I'm so glad to have discovered this author. "Darkness Demands" was a phenomenal book as is "Darker". It weaves so many different elements of horror and fantasy together to create this wonderful story. Mr. Clark has the rare gift of being able to hook you from the first page until the very last. This one never gets boring nor slow. You literally sit on the edge of your seat until the last page.The book starts off with...

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Rated 5 stars
Darker Takes Off Running and Doesn't Stop

Darker is another of Clark's book filled with the right mix of action, suspense and horror that never gets boring.Rosemary Snow meets the mysterious stranger, Michael, who is being pursued by something unknown, something dark. He leaves Rosemary and continues on until he meets up with the Young family, and this is where the book really takes off.Darker is a blend of darkest fairy tale and the best sort of horror, the kind...

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