Reviews and Comments

Takes a really long time to really get going and is so profuse with custom words you might throw it out a window before it does so.

I dunno. Maybe I'm just tired of young men that are both quite smart and a bit rebellious, tutored by a mysterious and also a bit rebellious older man, then being cast off from their almost-utopia to discover things are not all as they seem and ultimately saving the planet including all those ingrates back home.

Doesn't quite know what it wants to be. First two thirds grow slowly with lots of 'moments', then all of a sudden the plot jumps forward several decades and starts working through how all problems got solved at a breakneck pace.

Good non-Kafka kafkian novel.

Robert Aickman: presented for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this... The Hospice
Aickman: a man is forced to spend the night at a hospice
Dennis Lehane: like an asylum?
Aickman: what? no. as in, a lodge. a caravanserai. I thought we were writers here
Aickman: they serve no beer for dinner
Aickman: they give him too much food
Aickman: are woefully strange at night
Aickman: and finally he has to make a scene and leave the hospice in a stranger's car
Clive Barker: was
Clive Barker: was that it
Aickman: good heavens, sir, you wanted MORE?