The Many [Kindle Edition]

David B. Silva (Author)

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Winner of a Bram Stoker Award for his short story, "The Calling."

Winner of a World Fantasy Award for The Horror Show.

David B. Silva "is a talented writer of novels and short fiction, who knows where the heart of a story lies, and who deserves a larger audience than he has yet received." - Dean Koontz


Description: Kiel Reed is beginning to suspect there's something wrong with his eleven-year-old brother, Justin.

After the death of their parents, the two boys have gone to stay with their aunt and uncle. It should be a time of healing, but nothing is as it seems and the scars of their father's torment run deep, especially in Justin.

Deeply haunted by his past, Justin turns to The Many for help.

It's a deadly relationship.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 480 KB
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004DCB3WU
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #311,702 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

David B. Silva has written seven novels, his most recent, All The Lonely People, a story about Chase Hanford, who owns a little bar at the edge of town, with a few regulars and not much else. Until a man shows up one day with a spirit box. When the contents of the box are released, Chase awakens with the realization that bits and pieces of his life are being stolen and he sets out to regain control of his very soul.

Silva's first short story was published in 1981. His short fiction has since appeared in The Year's Best Horror, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, and The Best American Mystery Stories. In 1991, he won a Bram Stoker Award for his short story, "The Calling." His first collection, Through Shattered Glass, was published by Gaunlet Press in 2001. In 2009, Dark Regions published his collection of eleven new stories and one reprint, In The Shadows of Kingston Mills.

He is probably best known as the editor of The Horror Show, which was published quarterly from 1982 to 1991. This small-press horror magazine won a World Fantasy Award in 1988 and went on to publish the first early works of some of today's most talented and influential horror authors, such as Bentley Little, Brian Hodge, and Poppy Z. Brite.

Silva co-edited (with Paul F. Olson) two anthologies published by St. Martins Press: Post Mortem and Dead End: City Limits. In addition, he edited The Definitive Best of The Horror Show, published by CD Publications in 1992.

In addition, from February 1997 until September 2002, and from late 2004 until the present, Silva served as co-editor (along with Paul F. Olson) of Hellnotes. Originally a weekly subscription newsletter dedicated to the horror professional and horror fan alike, Hellnotes is currently a free blog, updated several times a day with latest news in the horror genre.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read!, May 20, 2011

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Brian (Bushkill, Panama) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Many (Kindle Edition)

David Silva's THE MANY is a brilliant coming-of-age novel, comparable to Stephen King's novella THE BODY (STAND BY ME if you're more familiar with the Rob Reiner film version) and Robert McCammon's BOY'S LIFE. Originally published as CHILD OF DARKNESS, Silva has re-released this novel as an ebook, and I, for one, am glad he did.

Without getting into the specifics--I believe this story reads better the less you know about it--the story revolves around two young brothers, Kiel and Justin Reed, who are sent to live with their aunt after their parents die in a barn fire.

If I had to generalize, I'd say this is a horror novel, but it's more than that. It's a story about the love between two brothers, and it's a story about the darkness that crowds the heart. The novel's strengths lie in Silva's commanding narrative and his ability to force the question: what is going on here? Because there are many twists and turns, and let me tell you, THE MANY is a wild ride that will keep you reading well into the night.