Wayne Allen Sallee knows Chicago inside and out, and he knows the daily grind and frustration of living in a body that won't do everything that most people take for granted. This story makes the city a character, and also introduces us to a fascinating cast of people who live in a seedy residence hotel for the disabled. They form a loose-knit dysfunctional family which is torn apart when one by one they start to disappear. A killer dubbed The Painkiller is on a mission to end the pain of homeless people in wheelchairs. The police can't figure out how he does what he does, parts of the deceased often being left behind along with an empty wheelchair.
Each character is disabled in his own way, and also crippled by emotional scars. Evan Shustak is the superhero The American Dream. Mike Surfer is a man in a wheelchair and with a shunt in his throat, who dies inside when the Painkiller takes a resident of the hotel who everyone calls Granma. Vic Tremble suffers from spasms at unexpected times and has to deal with people thinking he is not disabled because he looks "normal."
Since the police seem unable to find The Painkiller, several of the hotel residents come up with a plot to trap him. This is not a conventional thriller, the plot does more to unravel the group of friends than it does to catch a killer. The method the Painkiller uses to kill is disgusting and impossible, leading to passages of gruesome imagery.
This story is hard to take but hard to put down. Nothing happens the way you expect, when winter stalks the streets, striking down those who have nowhere to go. The Painkiller is just one of many forms of death on the frozen streets of the city.
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Holy Terror: A Novel ハードカバー – 1992/3/1
英語版
Wayne Allen Sallee
(著)
- 言語英語
- 出版社Mark V Ziesing
- 発売日1992/3/1
- 寸法17.15 x 3.18 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-100929480651
- ISBN-13978-0929480657
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- 出版社 : Mark V Ziesing (1992/3/1)
- 発売日 : 1992/3/1
- 言語 : 英語
- ISBN-10 : 0929480651
- ISBN-13 : 978-0929480657
- 寸法 : 17.15 x 3.18 x 24.13 cm
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Wayne Allen Sallee is my favorite horror writer. Some horror writers are good at showing us the seedier side of human existence. Sallee shows us that the people who live on that seedier side have the same humanity as anyone else, and perhaps a purer sort of humanity, tempered by the things they endure. The Holy Terror is Sallee’s first novel. It’s set in Chicago, a city the author knows well, and features a serial killer who is preying on those who are physically crippled. With the police unable to make any headway on the case, the victims must become their own protectors. One man in particular, Evan Shustak, dons the roll of The American Dream, a superhero with no powers other than his ability to endure. This book is the story of those, like Evan, who endure the unendurable. It’s not a “comfortable” read. But it can be touching as well as brutal. It won’t leave you unmarked, and I highly recommend it.
Paul Dale Anderson
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Wayne writes about Chicago because he knows Chicago like the back of his hand.