Silk
by Caitlin R. Kiernan
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Author: Caitlin R. KiernanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-11-05
ISBN: 0451459008
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Roc Trade
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Book Review: A Book of Whispers
Summary: 5 Stars
It's great to see one of the best contemporary Gothic novels in a snazzy new trade paperback format. I'm very glad the publisher kept the same cover art, though. SILK received both the Maiden Voyage and International Horror Guild awards for best new novel. If you haven't read it already, SILK is a truly remarkable and supremely effective novel. Caitlin Kiernan is surely one of the current masters of the form, and in this novel she has crafted a wonderfully creepy story of hauntings and insanity. Great characters who never fail to ring true and some of the most stunning prose out there. The soft-spoken ending is one of the novel's genuine triumphs. To paraphrase what Stephen King once said of Shirley Jackson, Kiernan doesn't need to raise her voice to unsettle us. Her whispers are loud and clear, and SILK is, like Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (or classic English ghost stories and the works of Machen), a book of whispers. I loved this book when it was first released in 1998 and I still love it.
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