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The Uncanny (Paperback)
by Andrew Klavan (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)

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Product details
  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks; New Ed edition (4 Nov 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 075152297X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0751522976
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 298,069 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
"Trolls…. That's what it was. Religious people believed God ran the world. Atheists figured it was indifferent nature. But it was trolls. Sadistic little homunculi in leather jackets with lots of zippers. Hiding behind the scrim of being. Working the machinery to maximize human suffering for their own amusement."

A wealthy Hollywood cowboy-cum-movie-producer travels to England in the hope of seeing a ghost, or a voice from beyond: "Something uncanny, you know. Anything. One lousy uncanny thing." He hangs out with a marvellous old woman--a professional sceptic armed with a sword cane and an ever- puffing pipe with a skull-shaped bowl--and the other staff of a semi-tabloid rag called Bizarre! He meets the woman of his dreams, who is billed as being utterly inaccessible and frigid to boot. Then before you can say "conspiracy theory", Andrew Klavan has whipped all of them into a humorous confection with elements of German Romantic art, English Gothic architecture, 19th-century ghost stories, Norse mythology, South American cult leaders, Nazi witchcraft and the Holy Grail. Even the ghost of M.R. James has a key role in the plot.

It's not a deep novel--you get the sense that Klavan doesn't take one iota of it seriously--but it's good supernatural fun. --Fiona Webster --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Publishers Weekly
'Klavan, cackling all the while, demonstrates again that his ability to make a genre his own is simply...uncanny'

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars great read, good value for money, 2 Feb 2004
This review is from: Uncanny (Hardcover)
Having read many fantasy and science-fiction novels (my favourite of which being The Lord of the Rings) I felt the need for