Last Days

✍ Scribed by Adam Nevill

• Publisher: Tor;St. Martin's Griffin
• Year: 2012;2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 272 KB
• Edition: First U.S. edition
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Winner of the August Derleth award, Last Days is a chilling and terrifying novel from master of horror, Adam Nevill.

The Temple of the Last Days. The brutal cult with a history of murder, sex and occult dealings destroyed itself during one night of ritualistic violence decades ago. Or so they thought...

Kyle Freeman is an indie film-maker with no money and few options, so when he lands a commission to make a documentary about The Temple of the Last Days he jumps at the chance. Little does he know that his investigation into the cult's bloody history will lead him into the darkest places he's ever been.

As they travel from the London and France to Arizona tracing the path of the cult, uncanny events, out-of-body experiences, ghastly artefacts and visits by the merciless 'old friends' plague Kyle and his one-man crew. They soon discover the power of the cult's terrible legacy, and that it may be too late for them to escape...

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From Booklist

Horror fans will revel in this appropriately chilling tale of modern-day murder and mayhem that stretches back several centuries. When financially strapped documentarian Kyle Freeman is offered a huge fee to make a film about the Temple of the Last Days, a warped, paranoid cult whose members ended their own days in a bloodbath in an abandoned mine in Arizona, he jumps at the opportunity. As he moves about several countries in search of authentic locations, credible interviews, and the appalling truths behind the myth of the cult, he himself begins to experience some shocking, otherworldly events. Becoming a subject of his own research and filming, Freeman sees his nightmarish journey deepen the further he delves into the twisted history of the cult and its participants. This appropriately ghastly tale definitely lives up to its billing as a Blair Witch Projectstyle novel. --Margaret Flanagan

Review

"Fans of films about haunted places, otherworldly beings, and rituals gone terribly wrong will find this homage deliciously chilling."Publishers Weekly

"Obsession and megalomania, sex and power make for a sophisticated, literate and well-crafted paranormal horror."Kirkus Reviews

This exceptional macabre tale stuns in its ability to inspire abject, primal terror. Readers will lose all hope of undisturbed, peaceful sleep. Highly recommended. Library Journal (starred review)

Library : Horror
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780230764965