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MORNING after the funeral, latest funeral in what seems to Chance Matthews to have become a litany of caskets and wreaths and frowning undertakers that might go on forever, if there were anyone left she cared about, anyone left to die. Read the first page
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This is Chance's novel, as Red Moon Rising is Deacon's. A run of deaths among Chance's friends and family have left her numb and at sea. In the middle of the sorrow two things happen to her In searching through her house, she discovers a box of her grandmother's research materials - paleontological artifacts, a diary, and a vial with the preserved body of a curious insect that bears an uncanny resemblance to a trilobyte. All are drawn from the same local mine. The second event is the appearance of Dancy Flammarion a monster hunter who knows more than she possibly could.
In between her explorations of the lives and relationships of Chance, her ex-boyfriend Deacon, his current lover Sadie Jasper, and Dancy, Kiernan lets us have glimpses of an ancient horror that has come to see them as a threat. It manifests in many forms - a fellow bus rider, the ghosts of friends, eerie animals that live in the darkest corners, and something thoughtlessly evil that lurks in the depths of the mines.
Once touch at a time the horror builds subtly for the most part, until the reader experiences a sense of free form unease. Kiernan works with small crises rather than apocalypses, but the potential is always just under the surface. And then the writer finds a finish that is both intrnsely satisfying and deeply mysterious.
This is a superbly crafted book. Kiernan's habit of choosing the lost and the hopeless as main characters will invite comparisons will Poppy Brite, but she is really a different sort of writer. And in my minds eye, possible the better of the two. She draws from sources as diverse as Lovecraft and Beowulf without a blink, and manages to keep the concoction marching to the satisfaction of the reader. Read it, and prepare for a nightmare or two.
The story itself moves at a wonderful pace, the ending - if anything - came too quickly as I wanted more. More of Chance, Deke, Dancey and Sadie, fully realised character with quirks and differing traits. More of the creepy dog people and Beowulf monsters. I want to be immersed back into Kierman's deep Southern vision of horror. So much so that I have already order another of her books.
Read This Book. Say it with me, "Read this book"
There are no world-threatening apocalypses in this book, but the charcters all have real enough personalities for you to genuinely care when they find themselves in danger. Although the prose does on occasions get a little purple- Kiernan has a nasty habit of creating ugly compound adjectives- the writing is generally rich and intense, with vivid, everyday world of geology labs, cheap appartments, back roads and laundrettes nicely setting off the chthonic nasties, all against an evocatively sticky Southern backdrop. In fact, the Lovecraftian horrors are all the more terrifying for frequenting municipal parks, greyhound buses and civic waterworks rather than mysterious ruins or sinister catacombs. Time warps, latter-day Grendels and alibino monster-slayers are much easy to take seriously against this background.
Despite my fears of crashingly dull info-dumps when I saw this book had a technical glossary, Caitlin Kiernan manages to interleave her knowledge of paleontology seamlessly into the book. My only complaint is that a lot of the exposition is blink-and-you-miss it: pass over the wrong line and the ending won't make sense. But in general, this is a superbly sinister book.
The use of adjectives were too much or maybe I am not poetic enough to... Read more
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