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The Faceless One

✍ Scribed by Onspaugh, Mark

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group; Hydra
Year: 2013
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 232 KB
Series: Faceless One 1
Category: Fiction
City: New York
ISBN: 1299975089

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✦ Synopsis

From a brilliant new voice in horror comes a riveting nightmare of ancient evil unleashed--and the bravery and sacrifice of those called to combat it.

In 1948, when he was just a boy, Jimmy Kalmaku trained with his uncle to be the shaman of his Tlingit village in Alaska. There he learned the old legends, the old myths, the old secrets. Chief among them was that of a mask locked in a prison of ice, and of the faceless god imprisoned within: a cruel and vengeful god called T'Nathluk, dedicated to the infliction of pain and suffering.

Now all but forgotten in a Seattle retirement home, Jimmy finds his life turned upside down. For when an unwitting archaeologist pries the mask free of its icy tomb, he frees T'Nathluk as well. Stuck in spirit form, the Faceless One seeks a human to serve as a portal through which he can enter our reality. The Faceless One can control--and mercilessly torture--anyone who touches the mask, which means there is no shortage of...

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