The demonologist

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337 pages

English language

Published Feb. 20, 2015 by Simon & Schuster Canada.

ISBN:
978-1-4767-9036-7
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OCLC Number:
910868537

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3 stars (2 reviews)

During a visit to Venice, Professor David Ullman--one of the world's leading authorities on demonic literature--witnesses a terror in a tiny attic room. Then his 12-year-old daughter Tess disappears before his eyes, and he must find her while confronting an unspeakable darkness along the way.

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5 stars

Unlike Dan Brown, Pyper doesn’t insult the reader with paper-thin heroes, card­board cut-out vil­lains, and a cliffhanger in every para­graph. Pyper rec­og­nizes the value of the slow burn, tak­ing the time to set his plot in motion through char­ac­ter inter­play, clean prose, and effec­tively unset­tling atmos­phere. He also har­bours an intrin­sic knowl­edge of how to scare the reader, real­iz­ing when (tak­ing a cue from Stephen King) to go for the ter­ror, the hor­ror, and the gross-out.

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Subjects

  • College teachers
  • Fiction
  • Adult children of alcoholics
  • Psychic trauma
  • Demonology

Places

  • New York (State)
  • New York
  • New York (N.Y.)
  • Venice (Italy)
  • Italy
  • Venice