Exorcising Angels [Hardcover]

Simon Clark (Author), Tim Lebbon (Author)

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From Publishers Weekly

In their eerie novella Exorcising Angels, set during the London blitz of 1940, Simon Clark and Tim Lebbon pay homage to Arthur Machen's "The Bowmen" (1915), which caused a stir because many British readers took this tale of angelic English archers mowing down advancing German troops with invisible arrows in the early days of WWI to be true. The abrupt appearance in a London church of a German airman's homicidal reanimated corpse strikes the only false note. In addition, each author contributes an original story: Clark's visionary "Bridge to Nowhere" does a better job than Lebbon's sexually explicit "Skins" in capturing Machen's weird essence.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 87 pages
• Publisher: Earthling Pubns (October 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972151885
• ISBN-13: 978-0972151887
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,922,878 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I've been published for ten years now, and you can find out loads about me at my website www.timlebbon.net. I'm the author of over thirty books, including the Noreela series of fantasy books (Dusk, Dawn, Fallen and The Island), the NY Times Bestselling novelisation of the movie 30 Days of Night, and several books with Christopher Golden, including The Map of Moments and the forthcoming Secret Journeys of Jack London for Harper. I've also written several screenplays and some TV proposals. I've won several prestigious awards, and some of my work has been optioned for the big screen.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Dark Fantasy in a tribute to Arthur Machen, October 20, 2008

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G. Guthrie "fiction book collector" (columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Exorcising Angels (Hardcover)

Exorcising Angels is a take by Lebbon and Clark to emulate one of their favorite authors: Arthur Machen. I'll admit I had no idea who this author was, but besides his literary work he was famous for writing a fictional story in the London newspaper in WWI about a group of angels that helped defeat a German advance, which gave the English people some hope when there was little.

This story sets the stage in WWII, where a veteran soldier finds the author Arthur Machen and tells him he was there during that battle and Arthur needs to bring them back again, literally. This is more a mystery fantasy story than a horror novel, as it's a wondrous story. I liked it, it was set in London during WWII, so it had a great backdrop and the story was well told.

There are also two short stories told in the vein of Arthur Machen: one by Lebbon and one by Clark. Lebbon's was a horror story where a man who always loved digging finds that he finally digs up something that doesn't make him happy, in fact it scares the hell out of him. The story by Clark is another wondrous story, of a man down on his luck who looks upon his old home when growing up and is able to see it in a different reality. Both of these stories were also good. For Lebbon it wasn't one of his best, but it was still very enjoyable.