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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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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
Christopher Fowler is perhaps best known for his Bryant and May Detective series so I was a little apprehensive when I discovered that he was writing a horror story for Solaris, not that I doubted that he could do it, but when an author is established in one genre, it is often hard for the reader to adapt to them in another.
That said, I really shouldn't have worried as a lot of the skills utilised in the crime genre translate wonderfully to the horror. As usual with Christopher's writing you have top notch characters, solid prose and of course when added to an illustrious history of British Horror Giant, Hammer, then it's a tales that's as gripping in the bound form as the celluloid was for me growing up.
Add to this, a few magical twists alongside an identifiable authorly voice which will leave the reader in no doubt about what a treat this title is with the odd sleight of hand trick. Cracking.
That said, I really shouldn't have worried as a lot of the skills utilised in the crime genre translate wonderfully to the horror. As usual with Christopher's writing you have top notch characters, solid prose and of course when added to an illustrious history of British Horror Giant, Hammer, then it's a tales that's as gripping in the bound form as the celluloid was for me growing up.
Add to this, a few magical twists alongside an identifiable authorly voice which will leave the reader in no doubt about what a treat this title is with the odd sleight of hand trick. Cracking.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
3 of 3 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!
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Horror Express
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)... Read more
Published 1 month ago by D. Dent
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 2 months ago by J. Highton
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 3 months ago by Paul Campbell
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 3 months ago by Mr. Robert A. Low
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 4 months ago by Mrs. Jean Hallsworth
Horrific Hammer Homage
Hell Train starts with an intriguing premise. American screenwriter Shane Carter has left Hollywood and come to the UK during the `swinging sixties', when Hammer Films are at the... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Pablo Cheesecake (The Eloquent Page)
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