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From a Whisper to a Scream (Newford #3)
In the early 1990s, Charles de Lint wrote and published three dark fantasy novels under the pen name "Samuel M. Key”. Now, Orb presents them for the first time under de Lint’s own name.
Years after the death of a notorious child murderer, children have begun to die again...and a crime photographer begins to suspect he has the one true clue that connects the horrific events.
Years after the death of a notorious child murderer, children have begun to die again...and a crime photographer begins to suspect he has the one true clue that connects the horrific events.
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
January 18th 2003
by Orb Books
(first published 1992)
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Thomas Morningstar, a Newford policeman ends up shooting to death a man, who did not stop to pull over. It soon becomes something more than a traffic violation turned tragic. Officer Morningstar killed a serial child murderer. However, things did not end there. Evil merely began. A few years later, Morningstar is a detective and has the case of his life on his hands. Young girls are being murdered in a red-light district of Newford and the police do not have a thread of lead. All of a sudden, a...more
Big fan of DeLint. He wrote several novels (this is one) under the pseudonym Samuel M. Key, as they were much darker in tone than his usual urban fantasy offerings. I enjoyed this novel quite a bit. DeLint writes well and is an easy read. It’s a page-turner. Like several of his other books I’ve read, he starts with four different characters (or sets of characters) each approaching the same “story” from different perspectives. It’s always interesting to see how DeLint manages to bring them all to...more
Much darker than the Newford series written under the name de Lint. I can see why he used a pen name to warn people there was a difference.
While it had the usual mix called urban fantasy, he was far more graphic in describing the abuse that frequently haunts his characters. It was a relief when Nikki stood up to her father in the end and sent him back to where he belonged, freeing all the souls he had bound to him. I do not recall any of these characters in his later Newford books and can only h...more
While it had the usual mix called urban fantasy, he was far more graphic in describing the abuse that frequently haunts his characters. It was a relief when Nikki stood up to her father in the end and sent him back to where he belonged, freeing all the souls he had bound to him. I do not recall any of these characters in his later Newford books and can only h...more
Originally published under the pseudonym Samuel Key, this Newford novel reveals a darker side of the world. de Lint wanted to give his traditional readers an easy way to delineate between his less-dark (i.e., normal) writing and his darker forays. Now the Key books are available under his actual name, which makes them easier to find at the library.
In this book, a dead serial killer and child molester has found a way to express himself physically in Newford... and he's not letting a little thing...more
In this book, a dead serial killer and child molester has found a way to express himself physically in Newford... and he's not letting a little thing...more
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From a Whisper to a Scream is not as creepy as Angel of Darkness, but it does make me wish it was still daylight out (and not just above freezing) so I could go for a walk. This is apparently the first Newford novel ever written, but it's worlds away from the other Newford books. I don't want to spoil it too much but it's basically about the ghost of a serial killing pedophile who rises from the grave and starts murdering again. It comes at it from two separate viewpoints. The first, from a news...more
Jan 29, 2012
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This was really written under a pseudonym, and I can see why. It's really way too dark for me.
Re-read December 11, 2011
A serial killer has been viciously murdering women in the Combat Zone, a seedy area of Newford. He makes a mistake when he kills a wealthy man's daughter, apparently mistaking her for one of the prostitutes he normally targets. There's a witness to this one too. He swears the killer stepped out of the side of a building and disappeared the same way.
Detective Thomas Morningstar...more
Re-read December 11, 2011
A serial killer has been viciously murdering women in the Combat Zone, a seedy area of Newford. He makes a mistake when he kills a wealthy man's daughter, apparently mistaking her for one of the prostitutes he normally targets. There's a witness to this one too. He swears the killer stepped out of the side of a building and disappeared the same way.
Detective Thomas Morningstar...more
Eh. Not really my thing, I guess, but nothing very interesting happened in this book. The most notable element of the novel was the rampant racism. Were the early nineties that racially charged? That's not what I remember of the time.
Early Newport novel, gritty and dark, a supernatural serial killer with voudoun and shamanism to round it out. A great read! I once again marvel at de Lint's capacity to make his characters come alive within the pages.
IT WAS GREAT! after chapter 19 or so all i could say was: OH MY GOD ! I couldn't seat steel. i was jumping up and down, passing the room and when it ended I was like : phew it was good :)
Wasn't sure how to rate this one. I absolutely love all things de Lint. But this book was terrifying - and I hate to be terrified!
Had some pretty disturbing imagery. Definitely not for the faint at heart, it made me intensely uncomfortable with some of the passages describing a pedophile.
Something is killing young blond women in the town of Newford. What does the graffiti Niki found at all the scenes have to do with the case? What does the Irish mob and the voodoo preacher Papa Jo-el have to do with the case? And what exactly did Jim photograph that night? Thomas and Frank, the local cops have to put it all together but that's hard when one of you doesn't believe in the "twilight zone" theory. The story builds slowly, to a scary climax, like going from a whisper to a scream. War...more
Grim. But incredibly well-written and plotted.
Dark book so far. Not the normal lighthearted charles de lint.
I liked the end - the way that everyone came together after all working from different angles.
I liked the end - the way that everyone came together after all working from different angles.
Oct 20, 2011
Lesley
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August 19, 2011
Read 150 pages.
I'm not sure what it was but I was quite bored from the very start. Maybe I was just tired when reading this but too many characters were introduced and I was mixing people up and just not interested in finding out more about the strange occurrences, deaths, and supernatural parts of the story.
Read 150 pages.
I'm not sure what it was but I was quite bored from the very start. Maybe I was just tired when reading this but too many characters were introduced and I was mixing people up and just not interested in finding out more about the strange occurrences, deaths, and supernatural parts of the story.
It's deLint, it's part of Newford, it's not good!! The premise of a supernatural murder mystery was great but the story got bogged down in the lives of the detectives etc. I just did not enjoy this one and deLint said it was not essential to the Newford story but I wanted to read it anyway, guess I should skipped it.
A very well-done piece of dark modern fantasy. Not that there is any relation between the two, but fans of White Wolf Publishing's World of Darkness will feel very much at home in the world of this novel.
A darker, and a little less fantastical de Lint, but I loved it none the less. If you're reading de Lint; save this one for stormy winter nights :)
This Charles De Lint book barely held my attention. I always come away from him feeling as though something was missed when he wrote...
Terrific Suspenseful. Learned a lot for my own writing.
This book was good. It gave me chills.
Very dark and kinda scary
Dec 08, 2009
Daniel
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Creeeeepy. But excellent.
May 25, 2013
Lulu
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Mary
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Charles de Lint (born December 22, 1951) is a World Fantasy Award winning author. In 1974 he met MaryAnn Harris, and married her in 1980.
Along with writers like Terri Windling and John Crowley, de Lint popularized in the 1980s the genre of urban fantasy, most notably through the Bordeland series of books. His fantasy fiction is described under the fantasy sub-genres Urban Fantasy, contemporary M...more
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Along with writers like Terri Windling and John Crowley, de Lint popularized in the 1980s the genre of urban fantasy, most notably through the Bordeland series of books. His fantasy fiction is described under the fantasy sub-genres Urban Fantasy, contemporary M...more
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