Revelation [Hardcover]

Bentley Little (Author)

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• Hardcover
• Publisher: Headline (1989)
• ASIN: B000GTNVHE
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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This review is from: Revelation (Hardcover)

This book, the author's debut novel, went on to garner a Bram Stoker Award. Since then, the author has gone on to win many admirers, including Stephen King, who has lavishly praised this author's body of work. There is little doubt that this author is a master storyteller, and this debut novel gave readers portents of the novels that were to come. In the horror fiction genre there are few who equal this author's ability to pull together an imaginative and interesting story.

In Randall, Arizona, a small, sleepy town in the northern part of the state, strange things are occurring. Evil seems to be making itself known amongst the townspeople, rearing its ugly head in the unlikeliest of places. The minister and his family seem to have mysteriously vanished overnight, and his church is desecrated, covered with blasphemous scrawls the like of which the town has never seen. Women are miscarrying or giving birth top grotesquely deformed babies. Townspeople are found murdered in unimaginable ways. Then an unknown fire and brimstone preacher arrives, warning the townspeople that an ancient battle between good and evil will take place in Randall. The only question is who will win the battle?

Those who enjoy the horror fiction genre will find much to like about this book. The action is fairly well-paced, and there is enough horror to go around. Although there are some unanswered questions, as there always seem to be in the author's novels, and the ending is not as interesting as the events that lead up to it, the book is, nonetheless, a fairly entertaining work of horror fiction.