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The Black TrainIntroduction of the ebook: The Black Train
Đánh giá : 3.76 /5 (sao)
A historic bed and breakfast, or a monument to evil and obscurity? Justin Collier didn’t know the house’s lurid, shocking history when he arrived for a relaxing stay. He knew nothing about the train tracks that run behind the house, or that they once led to a place worse than hell. But he’s learning. A historic bed and breakfast, or a monument to evil and obscurity? Justin Collier didn’t know the house’s lurid, shocking history when he arrived for a relaxing stay. He knew nothing about the train tracks that run behind the house, or that they once led to a place worse than hell. But he’s learning. …more
Review ebook The Black Train
man goes to haunted house. man experiences weird sexual scenarios and troubling dreams relating to the house’s horrific civil war-era past. man enjoys company of lovely lady bar-owner while dealing with two other frisky ladies – one bizarrely earthy, the other unpleasantly unearthly. man thinks only with his dick.
narrative: very little. mainly the reader is thrust into a series of lurid, atrocity-ridden historical dreams from a range of perspectives. in the modern world, various perverse scenes man goes to haunted house. man experiences weird sexual scenarios and troubling dreams relating to the house’s horrific civil war-era past. man enjoys company of lovely lady bar-owner while dealing with two other frisky ladies – one bizarrely earthy, the other unpleasantly unearthly. man thinks only with his dick.
narrative: very little. mainly the reader is thrust into a series of lurid, atrocity-ridden historical dreams from a range of perspectives. in the modern world, various perverse scenes are voyeuristically viewed by the narrator as he drinks beer, falls in love, drinks more beer, and gets weirded out by the haunted hotel. no sense of danger whatsoever and barely any suspense.
positives: the dreams are certainly vividly recounted and at times rather well-written. the idea of history-as-horror is there in spades, reminding me in a way of lovecraft. and the depiction of the bizarro family who run the haunted house was by turns disturbing, disgusting, and strangely endearing.
negatives: extremely awkward, juvenile writing overshadows the well-written parts by an almost 3 to 1 margin; the doltish opening page is a symptom of this problem. the narrator, although amusing, is about as realistic and three-dimensional as a character from a richard laymon novel.
neither positive nor – i suppose – negative: hauntings are accompanied by the overwhelming odor of old urine. gak! now that is nauseating, really nauseating. normally i favor Lady of the Manor-type spirits who have some elegance, some melancholy, some scary demonic sex-power…but definitely not smelling like the alley next to a bar. please no more piss-based ghost stories – don’t start a trend, ed lee! …more
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