Imagine there was a supernatural chiller that Hammer Films never made. A grand epic produced at the studio's peak, which played like a cross between the Dracula and Frankenstein films and Dr Terror's House Of Horrors... Four passengers meet on a train journeying through Eastern Europe during the First World War, and face a mystery that must be solved if they are to survive. As the Arkangel races through the war-torn countryside, they must find out: What is in the casket that everyone is so afraid of? What is the tragic secret of the veiled Red Countess who travels with them? Why is their fellow passenger the army brigadier so feared by his own men? And what exactly is the devilish secret of the Arkangel itself? Bizarre creatures, satanic rites, terrified passengers and the romance of travelling by train, all in a classically styled horror novel.
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Based in London, Christopher Fowler is the multi-award winning author of more than thirty novels, including the lauded Bryant & May mystery novels. In 2010 alone he has been nominated for eight national book awards.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
By S. Groves
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All aboard indeed for the latest from Christopher Fowler.Hell Train is like having all the best moments from the Hammer /Amicus films in book form.I don't want to give the plot away but half way through this book there is a chase sequence that had me turning pages almost faster then I could read.I found myself nearly reading this book in one sitting so engrossed had I become with the fates of the chracters and the situations that they found themselves.It even had me rooting for minor characters who's story looked a foregone conclusion.
The story has all the elements you would wish to find in a good chiller,dark atmospheric enviroments, a feeling of unease creeping into the events throughout,well drawn characters you care about ,the right amount of gore without becoming torture porn but adding to the feeling of threat,and don't start me on the Conductor or the other one beginning with B,( I PROMISE NO SPOILERS.)
The story, like the train on which the unsuspecting protagonists board moves along at a cracking pace.This is truely a genuinely thrilling and chilling read .Not to be missed.
Arkangel .let the train bring the pain.
The story has all the elements you would wish to find in a good chiller,dark atmospheric enviroments, a feeling of unease creeping into the events throughout,well drawn characters you care about ,the right amount of gore without becoming torture porn but adding to the feeling of threat,and don't start me on the Conductor or the other one beginning with B,( I PROMISE NO SPOILERS.)
The story, like the train on which the unsuspecting protagonists board moves along at a cracking pace.This is truely a genuinely thrilling and chilling read .Not to be missed.
Arkangel .let the train bring the pain.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Although Mr Fowler is a prolific horror story writer this is his first horror novel in a while and it's a joy! A cleverly framed story within a story it's a celebration of Hammer, with an arguably far cleverer plot than the horror house ever told. A joy. And it's short. Another joy in an age where one struggles to find books under 400 pages!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By D. Dent
Format:Paperback
Not Mr Fowler's best work by a long way. I gave up on reading contemporary horror fiction many years ago and only came to this through a) a love of the British horror film and b) the Bryant and May novels, which are all marvellous. This is a reminder that I was right to leave this genre of fiction alone. On the plus side it's fast paced, and good to spot all of the genre references (Horror Express, anyone?). But the framing device doesn't work, it moves from one set piece to another with little regard for cohesion, and just all felt a bit pointless. Great shame as Fowler's a very talented writer, but he's missed the mark here.
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well written
Keeps you guessing,and is well paced,with good characters. The action is well written,and you want to keep turning the page.
Published 5 days ago by Diana Adams
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Poor
I really wanted to love this book. It sounded almost perfect for my tastes, but sadly I didn't enjoy it at all. Read more
Published 24 days ago by david
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Huge fan
I love the Bryant and May stories and decided to try this by the same author, I was not disappointed, a nice Gothic horror tale of mystery and suspence. a good read on my kindle.
Published 3 months ago by sopranogirl
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fat controller runs out of steam
Hammer films, the romance of travelling by steam train; what could possibly go wrong?
Well, quite a lot, it seems. Read more
Well, quite a lot, it seems. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mikey C
4.0 out of 5 stars
". . .the hungry new bugs . . . burrowing out through his eyes and...
During World War II card sharp Nicholas Castleford, who is on the run for fraud, ends up on the wrong train, at the wrong time, at the wrong town of Chelmsk, an uncouth town where... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mark Louis Baumgart
5.0 out of 5 stars
They don't make 'em like this anymore
Fowler's rip-roaring yarn is truly the Hammer film that time (and, sadly, the development executives) forgot, with enough camp to fill Glastonbury Festival, plenty of claret to... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Frazer Lee
2.0 out of 5 stars
Off Track
This caught me by surprise when I was checking out the latest Bryant & May book.
How lovely,I thought, a new Christopher Fowler book, not a B & M episode so possibly a return... Read more
How lovely,I thought, a new Christopher Fowler book, not a B & M episode so possibly a return... Read more
Published 14 months ago by J. Highton
4.0 out of 5 stars
One-way ticket to Hell!
I've read any number of Fowler's short stories over the years (most of them in a Stephen Jones anthology) but I have to confess, I haven't read one of his novels in a very long... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Paul Campbell
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Straight to Video
Christopher Fowler is a great British writer. His work has been consistently inventive, surprising and delightful for over twenty years. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mr. Robert A. Low
2.0 out of 5 stars
Hell Train
This is well below the Bryant and May standards of originality, humour and inventiveness. It has a very poor story line and I found it dissappointing unengaging and predictable. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mrs. Jean Hallsworth
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