ONLY READ THE INTRODUCTION AFTER YOU’VE FINISHED THE NOVEL (unless you don’t care about spoilers, in which case, dive in, weirdo). This book begins with an introduction by Peter Straub that spoils the ENTIRE PLOT, so we need to provide a huge warning to readers: Combine that with Evenson’s passion for the surreal, and you get something utterly unique and utterly weird. As someone who chopped his own hand off, Kline is a rare detective who the Brotherhood of Mutilation will allow into their confines. What sets this apart from other whodunnits is that it is set in a cult organization whose members all share one thing in common: they have at least one voluntary amputation. A NO-SPOILER SUMMARYĪ retired detective finds himself at the center of a new mystery when he is brought in to solve a graphic murder. Three years later, he released the novella The Brotherhood of Mutilation that, nine years later, grew into Last Days, a novel in which he provides an alternate take on religion. In 2000, he resigned from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after being raised Mormon. He’s been nominated multiple times for the Shirley Jackson Award, the World Fantasy Award, and, in 2017, was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. His work doesn’t do any hand holding, but thrusts the reader into a world solely of his own creation. Evenson and Brian Evenson, he blends elements of literary and popular fiction. This isn’t Stephen King or Dean Koontz.īrian Evenson (born August 12, 1966) is an American author and teacher based out of the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts where he’s been teaching since 2016.
It’s not going to be like the other books you’ve read. You need to be told that what you’re about to watch-or in this case, read-is to be consumed with an open mind. The trailer for Friday The 13th literally shows every death in chronological order.īut sometimes, you need to know what you’re getting into. The trailer for Thor: Ragnarok spoiled the inclusion of the Incredible Hulk. The trailer for Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace spoiled Darth Maul’s double-ended lightsaber. They hold all sorts of spoilers for the movie you’re probably already going to watch.
By Christopher O’Halloran it’s advisable to skip trailers.
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