The books are all fairly recent. The Last House on Needless Street was released in March 2021, and while Tender is the Flesh was first released in 2017 it’s taken it a while to reach an international audienc. Not much to say about the final book; are there horror fans out there who aren’t at least passingly familiar with Lovecraft and the influence he’s had on the horror genre? The books are a good mix of gothic horror, eldritch terror, and near-future dystopia, and with three items every month you’re pretty much guaranteed to like SOME of what you get if not all, but then that’s always the chance you take with these sorts of random item boxes. If you’ve read any of those books and you know that a big chunk of this is about trying to climb Mt. Everest in the ‘20s then you might guess that there’s going to be a massive amount of detail about mountain climbing techniques and equipment from that era. And you’d be absolutely right! Dan received his Masters in Education from Washington University in St. Louis in 1971. He then worked in elementary education for 18 years—2 years in Missouri, 2 years in Buffalo, New York—one year as a specially trained BOCES "resource teacher" and another as a sixth-grade teacher—and 14 years in Colorado. urn:lcp:isbn_9780316198837:epub:fc1de400-f780-4cd2-ad3e-5722040b9bdb Foldoutcount 0 Identifier isbn_9780316198837 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t16m7947p Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780316198837

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It’s detailed, it’s skilfully done and yet…… I was hoping to type that the book was a resounding triumph. I must say that although it is for most of the book, it’s not perfect, and to my mind some aspects may annoy the reader enormously. There’s a lot to gain and enjoy from reading The Abominable, but I suspect that there are aspects that some readers will dislike and some may see as controversial. Still nothing has happened, though our heroes have at least made it as far as India. I don't know whether it was Mr Simmons' intention to fully simulate the tedium of long-distance travel in the early part of the 20th century, but he has certainly succeeded. That said, for those who don’t like hot drinks, or who can’t eat chocolate/wheat/etc, then you might consider it too much money or too much risk to pay for items you can’t use. It’s nice, then, that the Bare Bones option exists for those who just want to be surprised every month with some new items for the library.and also do not skip the introduction, because it is not an introduction at all. i frequently skip them to read after the book itself, because a lot of times, i find that they give too much away, and i enjoy reading the book less than if i had gone in blind. but this introduction is a story about how dan simmons came to have this book in his hands, and introduces the whole found manuscript device that sets up the entire narrative.

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I know what you’re thinking. It’s 1925. Hitler has just been released from Landsberg Prison, following the abortive Beer Hall Putsch. His National Socialist Party is polling around 3%. It doesn’t make any sense that a gang of Nazi thugs would waste time chasing mountain climbers up and down the Himalayas.

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I hate heights. They make me go weak at the knees, and just reading some of the scenes here had almost the same effect, a testament to Simmons' way with a descriptive passage.