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Rain Dogs [Kindle Edition]

Gary McMahon
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RAIN DOGS
by GARY McMAHON

Guy Renford is fresh out of prison. His life in ruins, he is estranged from his wife and daughter. So he returns to the Yorkshire town of Stonegrave to try and recover what he once held dear. But a presence is watching from behind the endless rainstorm, something that wants revenge... and has not come alone.

Rosie sees ghosts. She has since childhood These sorrowful visions of drowned schoolgirls are linked to a past she fled to America to escape. But you can never run from destiny, and something is calling Rosie back to rainy Stonegrave, the home of her worst nightmares...

Slowly, the lives of these two people are drawn together in a town cut off by floods, and at the height of the storm they will be forced to battle a relentless foe that uses the deluge as cover, stalking them from within a merciless onslaught of rain...

FOCUS ON -
• A CHILLING REVENGE STORY
• SOCIAL REALISM
• WEIRD MONSTERS
• SCARY URBAN FANTASY

IF YOU LIKE RAIN DOGS, TRY -
THE DARK by JAMES HERBERT
TWILIGHT EYES by DEAN KOONTZ
THE MIST by STEPHEN KING

RAIN DOGS is an EBOOK novel by GARY MACMAHON, whose fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies in the U.K. and U.S and has been reprinted in both THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR and THE YEAR’S BEST FANTASY & HORROR. He is the British-Fantasy-Award-nominated author of Rough Cut, All Your Gods Are Dead, Dirty Prayers, How to Make Monsters, Rain Dogs, Different Skins, Pieces of Midnight, The Harm, Hungry Hearts, and has edited an anthology of original novelettes titled We Fade to Grey. Forthcoming are several reprints in “Best of” anthologies, a story in the mass market anthology THE END OF THE LINE, the novels Pretty Little Dead Things and Dead Bad Things from Angry Robot/Osprey and The Concrete Grove trilogy from Solaris.

"Here comes the rain again..."

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 354 KB
  • Print Length: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Anarchy Books (14 Oct 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B005WOFI8I
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #130,761 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Jonny R
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I've read all of Gary McMahon's novels and I believe this is the first. Well, it's also one of the best! It's very starkly written, it's a brutal look into what motivates people to go that extra step beyond the norm. McMahon builds characters and tension with the expertise of King and Campbell. Following Guy Renford who is released from prison, Renford returns to Stonegrave but something beyond the rain is watching him... Rain Dogs is beautifull written, tense, creepy, and a perfect accompaniment to long dark winter nights reading by the fire. Buy it, you won't regret it. And at this price it's a bargain! Well done Anarchy Books!
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Guy is a man who has been in jail for three years because of a murder he committed defending his child during a break-in, Rosie is a young woman who has lived through a series of horrific, abusive relationships and both of them are being drawn back to the deluged town of Stonegrave where an all-consuming cosmic horror has been unleashed in the name of revenge. There are phantasms abroad in the rain and no-one is sure what they are but they are beginning to develop a taste for slaughter.
Gary McMahon does a superb job with conveying atmosphere in this novel as he describes a town drowning under constant rain cast down from the interminably grey British skies - a horror that I found to be very easy to relate to.
The use of suggestion, brief glimpses and momentary disturbances in this novel reminded me most of Ramsey Campbell's skill at accretion; steadily building up the picture of people, the place and the horror until it is apparent that they are indivisible, an organic whole moving towards a final revelation. This also leads to a seamless shifting in the climactic sections to apocalyptic action sequences and disturbingly visceral scenes that brought to mind the very best of James Herbert, in particular his Rats trilogy. There's something here for those who like their horror slow-burning AND in your face - the writer crosses between these two approaches with a practiced ease.
The theme of familial loyalty underscores the lives and actions of the characters and becomes reflected in the primal horror of the rain dogs; symbols of the kind of rage, hate and violence that can be born from such loyalty taken too far - if there is such a thing as too far. This question is left hanging as the destinies of the characters are not so much resolved as dissolved by the continually pouring grey rain. Recommended for those who like their horror grim and thought-provoking.
Recommended.
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Rain Dogs was originally released in paperback by Humdrumming back in 2008, but has not been released as an ebook before. This is not the first re-release by Anarchy Books, Monstrocity by Jeffrey Thomas being another example. These re-releases add good balance to original fiction, such as The Office of Lost & Found by Vincent Holland-Keen, that Anarchy are also publishing. I think Andy Remic is doing a good job so far, and my one complaint is that I want a paperback edition of Serial Killers Incorporated to give to a friend who does not read ebooks.

I've only just finished reading Pretty Little Dead Things by Gary McMahon, and thought it would be interesting to see how similar this book is to the Thomas Usher series. Even though they are both paranormal horror stories they are very different from one another. There is more hope in this story, whereas Pretty Little Dead Things is deliberately much more melancholy.

The story follows Guy Renford, a normal bloke with a bit of a temper. When he finds an intruder looking into the crib of his newborn baby he loses it, and beats the man to a pulp. On leaving prison, his life is a mess and all he wants to do is sort it out. Although a horrible and violent act, I could see myself doing something similar. That was worrying, yet edifying at the same time.

I particularly loved the moment where Guy meets his daughter for the first time in three years. Anybody who's had a three year old child will laugh and relate to how she reacts. This is just one example, amongst many, where I thought a particular scene was really well written.

As the plot unfolds you know somebody is going to be a sacrifice, the question is who and for which side? This builds the tension nicely, and the ending works perfectly. There are no jagged edges or awkward questions, the story just naturally ends. Even in the feel good ending, there is enough bad news to balance it out.

This book was an interesting read and although scary and melancholy, it still manages to send out a message of hope, even if it is the hope of completely screwed up emotional wrecks.

Although I quite like the cover art by Vincent Holland-Keen, the nit-picky part of me doesn't like that it looks like ten stones on the cover, but only eight mentioned in the story. It does however suitably convey the warping and belittling effect of the mysterious standing stones. Of course, this could be yet another dimension warping and I can really only see eight, but think I can see ten. My brain hurts.

Gary McMahon is a quality horror writer, and a must read for any fan of the genre. For only £2.49 this ebook is cheaper than a large Mocha Chocca Skinny Latte Blah Blah Blah coffee and will bring more enjoyment.
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