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Long Black Coffin
"Though both tales are about a haunted car, that is where the similarities ended for me and to tell you the truth I thought Long Black Coffin was much better than [Stephen King's] Christine."
—Peter Schwotzer, Literary Mayhem
The Long Black Coffin is a '67 GTO. A street-eater and a life-taker. Like an open grave, it's hungry for death.
Vic Tamberlyn committed suicide in it. His son Kurt asphyxiated in it. Maybe there's no connection, but Kurt's best friend, Johnny Breede, doesn't believe it. He begins seeing dark connections, convinced that beneath the skin of the Coffin there beats a black, terrible heart. But it's even worse than he can imagine.
For the Long Black Coffin has a history. And that history will lead Johnny into a web of murder, insanity, and sexual perversion. He'll learn gruesome family secrets that connect a decade-old series of child abductions to a primordial evil that lives on in the car in the form of a sadistic teenage girl.
A girl whose mother was human, but whose father was anything but.
—Peter Schwotzer, Literary Mayhem
The Long Black Coffin is a '67 GTO. A street-eater and a life-taker. Like an open grave, it's hungry for death.
Vic Tamberlyn committed suicide in it. His son Kurt asphyxiated in it. Maybe there's no connection, but Kurt's best friend, Johnny Breede, doesn't believe it. He begins seeing dark connections, convinced that beneath the skin of the Coffin there beats a black, terrible heart. But it's even worse than he can imagine.
For the Long Black Coffin has a history. And that history will lead Johnny into a web of murder, insanity, and sexual perversion. He'll learn gruesome family secrets that connect a decade-old series of child abductions to a primordial evil that lives on in the car in the form of a sadistic teenage girl.
A girl whose mother was human, but whose father was anything but.
390 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2012
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About the author
Tim Curran
149 books599 followersTim Curran lives in Michigan and is the author of the novels Skin Medicine, Hive, Dead Sea, Resurrection, The Devil Next Door, and Biohazard, as well as the novella The Corpse King. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as City Slab, Flesh&Blood, Book of Dark Wisdom, and Inhuman, and anthologies such as Shivers IV, High Seas Cthulhu, and Vile Things.
For DarkFuse and its imprints, he has written the bestselling The Underdwelling, the Readers Choice-Nominated novella Fear Me, Puppet Graveyard as well as Long Black Coffin.
Find him on the web at: www.corpseking.com.
For DarkFuse and its imprints, he has written the bestselling The Underdwelling, the Readers Choice-Nominated novella Fear Me, Puppet Graveyard as well as Long Black Coffin.
Find him on the web at: www.corpseking.com.
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February 6, 2017
My latest obsession with an author seems to be Tim Curran. For those that have not encountered Mr. Curran and his writing, he snuggly fits into that horror category of the seventies and eighties horror writer style. The book I just finished “The long Black Coffin” was published around 2012 by DarkFuse.
“The Long Black Coffin” refers to a car, a 1967 GTO also known as a “Goat”. If one assumes this is a thinly disguised version of Stephen King’s “Christine” then one must think again. This is a novel about a drug and alcohol addled young man from a broken home in Minnesota named Johnny Brede. Over the years the small town where Johnny lives has been troubled by the abduction and disappearance of several young children.
A word of warning needs to be added, as the book contains strong and violent sexual content, and also to an extent includes the copious drug use that takes place all across communities across the country. This is one point where Mr. Curran is at his strongest, he tells his story no holds barred, in a similar manor that Jim Thompson did for the fifties and sixties., and this book is not for everyone.
The only drawback which stood out was a constant feeling of a certain amount of repetition of events and many chapters ending on a strong note of impending doom.
To the best of my count, Mr. Curran has written fifty or sixty books under his own name and pen names, all of which could be filed under the Horror category.
This copy of the hardcover is marked PC of 100 copies printed and is signed by Tim Curran.
“The Long Black Coffin” refers to a car, a 1967 GTO also known as a “Goat”. If one assumes this is a thinly disguised version of Stephen King’s “Christine” then one must think again. This is a novel about a drug and alcohol addled young man from a broken home in Minnesota named Johnny Brede. Over the years the small town where Johnny lives has been troubled by the abduction and disappearance of several young children.
A word of warning needs to be added, as the book contains strong and violent sexual content, and also to an extent includes the copious drug use that takes place all across communities across the country. This is one point where Mr. Curran is at his strongest, he tells his story no holds barred, in a similar manor that Jim Thompson did for the fifties and sixties., and this book is not for everyone.
The only drawback which stood out was a constant feeling of a certain amount of repetition of events and many chapters ending on a strong note of impending doom.
To the best of my count, Mr. Curran has written fifty or sixty books under his own name and pen names, all of which could be filed under the Horror category.
This copy of the hardcover is marked PC of 100 copies printed and is signed by Tim Curran.
August 31, 2017
This one idles for the first half or so and then Curran kicks it into gear and this mother f*cker burns some serious rubber and takes off like a bullet.
A possessed, crazy, blood-thirsty, cursed, masochistic, evil entity bullet. Yep. Curran.
Could have used a haircut in the first half, but once it got going it was a crazy ride. A solid 4 Stars and Highly Recommended, as always from this author.
A possessed, crazy, blood-thirsty, cursed, masochistic, evil entity bullet. Yep. Curran.
Could have used a haircut in the first half, but once it got going it was a crazy ride. A solid 4 Stars and Highly Recommended, as always from this author.
December 18, 2015
Damn, damn, damn. Now THAT was how you do horror. Tim Curran's Long Black Coffin actually gave me shivers - yes, shivers - and that's something that hasn't happened in a very long time.
Long Black Coffin is a working class ghost story set in a small town in Wisconsin. Johnny Breede is your typical mid-twenties guy trying to figure out what he wants out of life while he puts in his time down at the lumber yard. He lives with his sister in their parents old house. His mom ran off, long ago, with some swinging dick and his dad sat and drank his life away. Johnny is no dummy. He's intelligent and has street smarts. Him and his buddy, Kurt, like to drink too much, get high too much and ponder life too much. Kurt has his own demons. His abusive old man wrapped his lips around a loaded shot gun, one night, in the front seat of his black 1967 Pontiac GTO and pulled the trigger. When Kurt gets drunk, he tortures himself with wondering why Vic killed himself and, lately, he's been doing it more and more often. In fact, it feels like something in the GTO is calling him.
What makes Long Black Coffin great is the storytelling. Curran does a masterful job telling the story from Johnny's POV. Its a blue-collar, non-nonsense approach that elevates the story to being a 5-star masterpiece. It makes the characters extremely realistic and full of depth. The fact that he can throw in a handful of chills along the way, makes it a fun ride.
5 tires burning rubber out of 5
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Long Black Coffin is a working class ghost story set in a small town in Wisconsin. Johnny Breede is your typical mid-twenties guy trying to figure out what he wants out of life while he puts in his time down at the lumber yard. He lives with his sister in their parents old house. His mom ran off, long ago, with some swinging dick and his dad sat and drank his life away. Johnny is no dummy. He's intelligent and has street smarts. Him and his buddy, Kurt, like to drink too much, get high too much and ponder life too much. Kurt has his own demons. His abusive old man wrapped his lips around a loaded shot gun, one night, in the front seat of his black 1967 Pontiac GTO and pulled the trigger. When Kurt gets drunk, he tortures himself with wondering why Vic killed himself and, lately, he's been doing it more and more often. In fact, it feels like something in the GTO is calling him.
What makes Long Black Coffin great is the storytelling. Curran does a masterful job telling the story from Johnny's POV. Its a blue-collar, non-nonsense approach that elevates the story to being a 5-star masterpiece. It makes the characters extremely realistic and full of depth. The fact that he can throw in a handful of chills along the way, makes it a fun ride.
5 tires burning rubber out of 5
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October 9, 2019
Disturbante, malato e a tratti terrificante, ma il sesso abbonda parecchio rispetto all'orrore e, prima che accada qualcosa, passano tipo 70 pagine.
Non male, ma dopo aver letto ed adorato Nightcrawlers di Curran l'anno scorso, mi aspettavo qualcosina di più.
Non male, ma dopo aver letto ed adorato Nightcrawlers di Curran l'anno scorso, mi aspettavo qualcosina di più.
December 4, 2012
3.5 Stars
A story of a dysfunctional family that has lost 2 of its members while being in a black GTO that sits in the garage. The story starts out slow, real slow, and builds to a somewhat intense conclusion with a family friend trying to put a stop to the madness that seems to be linked to this family. The why's and what-for are given to us at very strategic moments making this a one-sitting read for me. Great descriptions and creepiness from Curran as usual. Not really horrific. Recommended~
A story of a dysfunctional family that has lost 2 of its members while being in a black GTO that sits in the garage. The story starts out slow, real slow, and builds to a somewhat intense conclusion with a family friend trying to put a stop to the madness that seems to be linked to this family. The why's and what-for are given to us at very strategic moments making this a one-sitting read for me. Great descriptions and creepiness from Curran as usual. Not really horrific. Recommended~
October 28, 2013
Up till now I've only read Curran's novellas and I was happy to discover that in long form he certainly doesn't disappoint. Killer cars everywhere now have a competition. This is exactly what horror ought to be, well written, fun, scary. Riveting read, I couldn't put it down, got through the whole book in one evening and that's nearly 400 pages. Curran doesn't cut corners, he creates a backstory, he fleshes out characters, he really develops the plot, it's a pleasure to read. Thanks, Nikki. There is a lot of explicit graphic sexual content for those who mind, but it's actually plot integral unlike in many genre books. Very fun ride. Highly recommended.
November 19, 2012
I received this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
After Kurt dies of asphyxiation in an old '67 GTO, also known as The Coffin, the same car his father shot himself in his best friend Johnny is left wondering, realizing all of this seems too coincidental. While cleaning out his friends room because his mother has completely given up he starts coming upon things that could only be said to be paranormal occurrences. As Johnny starts looking into the history of the car and his best friends family he finds himself pulled deeper into the haunting of a strange women with red hair, and a car which survives on the blood sacrifice of others.
This book overall was very creepy and sinister. I can't say that is scared me and I wasn't able to sleep but it was very disturbing. I personally didn't enjoy the beginning of the book where all Johnny and Kurt did was party and get drunk, witness fights, and just BS about life. That being said the book started out slowly for me but after Kurt dies the story picks up and races towards the finish. The storyline was original where a car was the main focal point involved in the haunting of the family. There were some parts of the horror aspect that had been done before but with the originality of the main plot they didn't seem like old tricks. None of the characters are overall likable but ironically that is why I liked the characters. All of them were broken whether it be through death of family members, drugs, alcoholism, or their past, they all had skeletons in their closets (some literally)!
There were several things about this book that irked me. The main problem I had was the graphic sex scenes. I have never understood why ghosts in a lot of horror books/movies are obsessed with sex. Later in the book it is semi-explained that blood and sex go together for this crazy women but it felt overdone at points and sometimes totally pointless. Several times the character Johnny wakes up to Stella/the "ghost" giving him sexual pleasures… I didn't feel like these scenes were necessary especially since they occurred after a very graphic sex scene a page before. That point goes into the videotape that Johnny finds. It was, for lack of a better term, messed up. It made sense by the end of the story why this tape existed and the meaning behind it but it just seemed weak to the plot and without it the story would have still progressed as needed.
And then the main thing that bothered me. I feel like the author of this book has never actually smelled what a dead, decomposing body smells like but likes to describe what it smells like constantly throughout the book. How this women died and even with all the forest elements… that is NOT what death smells like, trust me. Especially the point when Johnny is having sex with a person that turns into a decomposing corpse it is a nauseating smell not one that keeps you turned on. Also just as a side note, it may happen I don't know, but I have never seen a dead body with moss growing out of its butt. Moss grows very slowly and with all the bugs it probably isn't even probable for it to grow until it is just skeletal remains. This wasn't even a plot point and just was a side note but it just bothered me the whole book. Sorry that was just a gripe of a forensic person there.
There were also many good things about this book though. Besides the sex part of the haunting I thought it was very well done. The violence and the whole connection to the forest was creative and the flash backs to the young girl I found very interesting and thought provoking when thinking about the rest of the book. I also liked how the child disappearances mentioned at the beginning of the book added into how sadistic and creepy the haunted spirit was. I will admit when Johnny first finds the tape and changes his mind about the spirit I was worried, the spirit tried to scare and almost kill you several times when you tried to gain possession and watch the tape but now you think it's all because you need to help the spirit find peace? Luckily that was not where the story was headed and Johnny found that out the hard way.
Overall I will give this book a solid 3/5 stars. It is a good horror novel and would recommend it for when you want a chilling story but not one that will keep you up at night.
After Kurt dies of asphyxiation in an old '67 GTO, also known as The Coffin, the same car his father shot himself in his best friend Johnny is left wondering, realizing all of this seems too coincidental. While cleaning out his friends room because his mother has completely given up he starts coming upon things that could only be said to be paranormal occurrences. As Johnny starts looking into the history of the car and his best friends family he finds himself pulled deeper into the haunting of a strange women with red hair, and a car which survives on the blood sacrifice of others.
This book overall was very creepy and sinister. I can't say that is scared me and I wasn't able to sleep but it was very disturbing. I personally didn't enjoy the beginning of the book where all Johnny and Kurt did was party and get drunk, witness fights, and just BS about life. That being said the book started out slowly for me but after Kurt dies the story picks up and races towards the finish. The storyline was original where a car was the main focal point involved in the haunting of the family. There were some parts of the horror aspect that had been done before but with the originality of the main plot they didn't seem like old tricks. None of the characters are overall likable but ironically that is why I liked the characters. All of them were broken whether it be through death of family members, drugs, alcoholism, or their past, they all had skeletons in their closets (some literally)!
There were several things about this book that irked me. The main problem I had was the graphic sex scenes. I have never understood why ghosts in a lot of horror books/movies are obsessed with sex. Later in the book it is semi-explained that blood and sex go together for this crazy women but it felt overdone at points and sometimes totally pointless. Several times the character Johnny wakes up to Stella/the "ghost" giving him sexual pleasures… I didn't feel like these scenes were necessary especially since they occurred after a very graphic sex scene a page before. That point goes into the videotape that Johnny finds. It was, for lack of a better term, messed up. It made sense by the end of the story why this tape existed and the meaning behind it but it just seemed weak to the plot and without it the story would have still progressed as needed.
And then the main thing that bothered me. I feel like the author of this book has never actually smelled what a dead, decomposing body smells like but likes to describe what it smells like constantly throughout the book. How this women died and even with all the forest elements… that is NOT what death smells like, trust me. Especially the point when Johnny is having sex with a person that turns into a decomposing corpse it is a nauseating smell not one that keeps you turned on. Also just as a side note, it may happen I don't know, but I have never seen a dead body with moss growing out of its butt. Moss grows very slowly and with all the bugs it probably isn't even probable for it to grow until it is just skeletal remains. This wasn't even a plot point and just was a side note but it just bothered me the whole book. Sorry that was just a gripe of a forensic person there.
There were also many good things about this book though. Besides the sex part of the haunting I thought it was very well done. The violence and the whole connection to the forest was creative and the flash backs to the young girl I found very interesting and thought provoking when thinking about the rest of the book. I also liked how the child disappearances mentioned at the beginning of the book added into how sadistic and creepy the haunted spirit was. I will admit when Johnny first finds the tape and changes his mind about the spirit I was worried, the spirit tried to scare and almost kill you several times when you tried to gain possession and watch the tape but now you think it's all because you need to help the spirit find peace? Luckily that was not where the story was headed and Johnny found that out the hard way.
Overall I will give this book a solid 3/5 stars. It is a good horror novel and would recommend it for when you want a chilling story but not one that will keep you up at night.
July 5, 2017
After his best friend unwittingly commits suicide in his late father's '67 GTO, Johnny Breede begins to try and make sense of the senseless...which irrevocably leads him down a very dark road full of death, sadism, and horror beyond imagining. But as Johnny begins to piece things together, along with embarking on a torrid affair with Kurt's mother, Stella, he soon realizes the price to pay may be more than he can afford.
Tim Curran is one of my favorites, period, and while this novel took a little while to get going, once it did, much like that GTO's supercharged engine...look out!
Highly recommended!
Tim Curran is one of my favorites, period, and while this novel took a little while to get going, once it did, much like that GTO's supercharged engine...look out!
Highly recommended!
January 5, 2023
This was ok… yep, just ‘ok’. I galloped through it and was pleased when I’d finished it.
The issue for me was the lack of character development, I just didn’t care about any of them enough. There were some pretty scary parts but the creepy build up I like wasn’t there. It was just ‘boom, someone’s possessed’ so what…😐
Actually I’m going to alter to 2 stars I think, this was a bit of a let-down.
The issue for me was the lack of character development, I just didn’t care about any of them enough. There were some pretty scary parts but the creepy build up I like wasn’t there. It was just ‘boom, someone’s possessed’ so what…😐
Actually I’m going to alter to 2 stars I think, this was a bit of a let-down.
March 5, 2014
"I don't think there was a kid in town who wasn't scared, who didn't lay awake in their bed at night watching the shadows moving against the walls and wondering when a grinning moon-pallid face would peer through their window and lay its claws against the glass."
December 29, 2012
Review of Long Black Coffin by Tim Curran
5 stars
Writing a first-person narrative, and making it work properly and flow smoothly, is not an easy task. Not every writer can do it. Tim Curran does, immensely well. There wasn’t a dropped stitch in this complex, multiply-motivated novel, which is completely viewed through the perspective of twenty-three-year-old Johnny (or as some friends call him, “Johnny Breed”). Johnny is a young man with a sad past, a sorry present, and not much concern about the future; until the death of his best friend for life, Kurt Tamberlyn. His world spirals downward, and yes, “spiral” is the operative word, because it is not a straight, down to the bottom of the barrel, leap; rather, it is curse upon fault upon death upon pain and suffering, piled up and running over.
Central to the story is the problem of the beauteous, gorgeous, desirable, muscle car beloved of Kurt’s abuser father Vic: the ’67 GTO, black outside and black-hearted within. Vic ended his life in the GTO seven years ago; now Kurt’s ended inside it also. Kurt’s mother Stella won’t have anything to do with it, and wants it sold. Johnny thinks, “it’s just a car-a death car, granted; but no more.” How wrong he is he will soon discover; and in the process of that discovery, will upend secrets carried for fifteen years and even farther back into the past. “Long Black Coffin” is a novel I shall not soon forget, if ever.
5 stars
Writing a first-person narrative, and making it work properly and flow smoothly, is not an easy task. Not every writer can do it. Tim Curran does, immensely well. There wasn’t a dropped stitch in this complex, multiply-motivated novel, which is completely viewed through the perspective of twenty-three-year-old Johnny (or as some friends call him, “Johnny Breed”). Johnny is a young man with a sad past, a sorry present, and not much concern about the future; until the death of his best friend for life, Kurt Tamberlyn. His world spirals downward, and yes, “spiral” is the operative word, because it is not a straight, down to the bottom of the barrel, leap; rather, it is curse upon fault upon death upon pain and suffering, piled up and running over.
Central to the story is the problem of the beauteous, gorgeous, desirable, muscle car beloved of Kurt’s abuser father Vic: the ’67 GTO, black outside and black-hearted within. Vic ended his life in the GTO seven years ago; now Kurt’s ended inside it also. Kurt’s mother Stella won’t have anything to do with it, and wants it sold. Johnny thinks, “it’s just a car-a death car, granted; but no more.” How wrong he is he will soon discover; and in the process of that discovery, will upend secrets carried for fifteen years and even farther back into the past. “Long Black Coffin” is a novel I shall not soon forget, if ever.
March 31, 2014
What a book!
I greatly enjoyed it.
I gave it 5 stars, because I really liked it and thought it was amazing.
The story moved along without ever leaving the reader behind. I like the short chapters. The writing, superb! The best I've read from Curran and I've read a lot of his work.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes horror or just wants to take a wild and crazy ride with a black GTO!! Whoa, whoa!!
I greatly enjoyed it.
I gave it 5 stars, because I really liked it and thought it was amazing.
The story moved along without ever leaving the reader behind. I like the short chapters. The writing, superb! The best I've read from Curran and I've read a lot of his work.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes horror or just wants to take a wild and crazy ride with a black GTO!! Whoa, whoa!!
December 2, 2012
Recently I stumbled on a horror bookclub subscription service put on by this book's publisher, Darkfuse. This was the first novel I have received from the club.
Tim Curran - I've never read anything by him. I have however marked a few of his books on various sites 'to read' and 'wish lists'. I just hadn't gotten around to actually reading him. This novel was the perfect opportunity to remedy that.
Going into this novel I didn't read any kind of summaries, synapses, etc. so I had no clue what type of a story this was going to be.
The Long Black Coffin is a car. Great (stated sarcastically). I have absolutely no interest in cars, wouldn't be able to tell one part from another and well, yawn when people start to discuss them. There have been a few other car type horror stories, one of the more famous ones being Stephen King's Christine. I found that novel okay but nothing special so was a little worried.
Curran takes a long time to really develop his characters. Heck, by the time what I feel was the 'true' story came out, I honestly felt like I knew the whole bloody town and all of its citizens that the story takes place in. After finishing this novel, upon reflection I am just amazed that he was able to get the whole town's personalities and story across in what isn't that large of a book. Upon looking at reviews for this author it seems like that is his specialty, really great character development.
It's because of this character development that I really didn't know what was coming. By the time the story takes its mandatory horrific twist, I'd been lulled into a sense of secured realism with the characters but then... ghosts and stuff are introduced.
Initially the supernatural elements had their shock value but that ended quickly for me. Then for a period of time I had some difficulty suspending my disbelief. I'm just not a huge fan of ghost stories, I'm not used to reading them, and have a difficult time believing them (yet I'll fall for virtually anything else, killer puppets, monsters, madmen, et. al: who knows why?). Eventually though, the author develops the supernatural element as strongly as he has already done for his 'human' characters and it all comes together.
I find it odd that the author developed his human characters with such detail and then when the supernatural elements arrive he just slaps us across the face with it. Sure he catches up with the supernatural development over the rest of the book, however it drastically changed the mood of the book in the middle. The mood corrects itself though after the initial supernatural introduction chapters. Maybe it was a good thing though. Curran drags us along TWICE through this novel to really get to know two sets of characters and it ends up being a ton of fun.
When it all came together I loved it. You can see the detail the author put into this work with various small hints and foreshadowing littered throughout the novel. Long Black Coffin is really well written and I look forward to reading more Tim Curran.
Tim Curran - I've never read anything by him. I have however marked a few of his books on various sites 'to read' and 'wish lists'. I just hadn't gotten around to actually reading him. This novel was the perfect opportunity to remedy that.
Going into this novel I didn't read any kind of summaries, synapses, etc. so I had no clue what type of a story this was going to be.
The Long Black Coffin is a car. Great (stated sarcastically). I have absolutely no interest in cars, wouldn't be able to tell one part from another and well, yawn when people start to discuss them. There have been a few other car type horror stories, one of the more famous ones being Stephen King's Christine. I found that novel okay but nothing special so was a little worried.
Curran takes a long time to really develop his characters. Heck, by the time what I feel was the 'true' story came out, I honestly felt like I knew the whole bloody town and all of its citizens that the story takes place in. After finishing this novel, upon reflection I am just amazed that he was able to get the whole town's personalities and story across in what isn't that large of a book. Upon looking at reviews for this author it seems like that is his specialty, really great character development.
It's because of this character development that I really didn't know what was coming. By the time the story takes its mandatory horrific twist, I'd been lulled into a sense of secured realism with the characters but then... ghosts and stuff are introduced.
Initially the supernatural elements had their shock value but that ended quickly for me. Then for a period of time I had some difficulty suspending my disbelief. I'm just not a huge fan of ghost stories, I'm not used to reading them, and have a difficult time believing them (yet I'll fall for virtually anything else, killer puppets, monsters, madmen, et. al: who knows why?). Eventually though, the author develops the supernatural element as strongly as he has already done for his 'human' characters and it all comes together.
I find it odd that the author developed his human characters with such detail and then when the supernatural elements arrive he just slaps us across the face with it. Sure he catches up with the supernatural development over the rest of the book, however it drastically changed the mood of the book in the middle. The mood corrects itself though after the initial supernatural introduction chapters. Maybe it was a good thing though. Curran drags us along TWICE through this novel to really get to know two sets of characters and it ends up being a ton of fun.
When it all came together I loved it. You can see the detail the author put into this work with various small hints and foreshadowing littered throughout the novel. Long Black Coffin is really well written and I look forward to reading more Tim Curran.
April 29, 2014
The Long Black Coffin is a '67 GTO. A street-eater and a life-taker. Like an open grave, it's hungry for death. Vic Tamberlyn committed suicide in it. His son Kurt asphyxiated in it. Johnny Breede, Kurt's best friend finds out there is much more to the car than meets the eye. Haunted by the ghost of a sadistic girl who may not have been wholly human, can he find answers before it's to late?
I bought this book for two reasons. First I love Tim Curran, his books are usually wonderfully weird and creepy. Second it was compared to Christine, my favorite haunted car. While Long Black Coffin wasn't much like Christine it was a good book. The story moved at a quick pace. It had parts that made me laugh out loud and some parts were cringe worthy.
A quick and enjoyable read, not my favorite work by Tim Curran but definitely worth your time. I would give it 3.5 stars
I bought this book for two reasons. First I love Tim Curran, his books are usually wonderfully weird and creepy. Second it was compared to Christine, my favorite haunted car. While Long Black Coffin wasn't much like Christine it was a good book. The story moved at a quick pace. It had parts that made me laugh out loud and some parts were cringe worthy.
A quick and enjoyable read, not my favorite work by Tim Curran but definitely worth your time. I would give it 3.5 stars
May 11, 2013
This is the story of Johnny Breede. A young man whose life isn't really going anywhere, content to goof around and get drunk and high with his best friend Kurt. That is until Kurt winds up dead, asphyxiated in his father's GTO. That same car that his father killed himself in some years previously. Now an evil has been unleashed and Johnny must piece together the mystery before anyone else dies. A mystery that will involve Kurt's family, the woods, Johnny's boss, some missing children and a malevolent entity connected with the car. Can Johnny solve the puzzle or are more people doomed to die?
This was quite creepy. It was a book that I shall be thinking about for quite some time I think. I enjoyed it very much, this being the second book I have read from this author. The characters were all well-rounded, but not really likeable in the conventional sense. The were all wasters but somehow I was invested in finding out more about them. The paranormal aspect of the story was introduced and handled well. Be warned though, some scenes are quite graphic, both gorily and sexually. Not for the faint hearted! If I have one gripe though, it is the car. Supposedly the focal point of the story, I would have liked more back story to it. This is another fine offering from DarkFuse, and I recommend it for a creepy, stay-with-you ghost story.
This was quite creepy. It was a book that I shall be thinking about for quite some time I think. I enjoyed it very much, this being the second book I have read from this author. The characters were all well-rounded, but not really likeable in the conventional sense. The were all wasters but somehow I was invested in finding out more about them. The paranormal aspect of the story was introduced and handled well. Be warned though, some scenes are quite graphic, both gorily and sexually. Not for the faint hearted! If I have one gripe though, it is the car. Supposedly the focal point of the story, I would have liked more back story to it. This is another fine offering from DarkFuse, and I recommend it for a creepy, stay-with-you ghost story.
December 7, 2012
Well, you can officially add ghost stories to the types of novels that Tim curran is a master of. This one was my first official title since joining the darkfuse kindle club late last month and I hate to say that the subscription is going to Be all downhill from here but it is really going to be hard to top this one, At least until sow is released anyway. This wasn't nearly as gory as some of his novels but for a ghost story it was preaty dark and violent, it was a great story with alot of great characters in it. Even the minor characters where well developed but despite that it was a fast read and I never once thought to myself "ok enough character development when does the action start". Tim did a great job setting the mood as usual and there really isn't anything I disliked about this novel.
October 23, 2012
Long Black Coffin is a disturbing, twisted, dark fiction novel that managed to keep me up until the wee hours of the morning. Unfortunately, that was more due to curiosity than to actual fear, but nevertheless, I enjoyed this gem. Mr. Curran has a terrific way with words and seems to have a magical wand for lyrical prose. The story itself ranks high in originality, and the characters were fun and enjoyable, at least up to some degree. There were some tidbits here and there that annoyed me endlessly, but not enough to stop reading.
After Johnny’s best friend, Kurt, commits suicide in the same car his Dad killed himself in years prior, Johnny is left behind to pick up the pieces. Without Kurt and any real family to fall back on, his mother, Stella, is completely lost, and searches for love and support by reaching out to Johnny. But when the latter discovers something eerie in the basement of Stella’s house, he opens the door for something sinister to crawl through from the world beyond. Something is haunting Stella and her family, and somehow it’s related to the disappearance of several small children fifteen years ago. Stella starts acting strangely, utnil Johnny grows convinced she’s possessed. He discovers a tape in the basement, a tape showing Vic, Stella’s late husband, torturing a young woman. Johnny quickly jumps to conclusions about Kurt’s parents, but he may have to change his views when the girl returns from the death…
Our main character, Johnny Breede, is little more than a nobody in a town filled with nobodies. He spends his time drinking and doing drugs, and literally half of this book is filled with accounts of Johnny’s parties and interactions with people wasting their life almost as much as he is. It came up to the point I cared little or not about Johnny’s potential death – after all, he was just wasting his life away hopping from one wasted night into another. I know not every book needs a perfect protagonist, and in that sense, it was a relief to visit the opposite end of the spectrum for a change. There were little good qualities one could find in Johnny. He’s a coward, he’s incapable of truly loving anyone, and he leaves people at the first sight of trouble. When he kept leaving Kurt’s Mom alone to deal with whatever evil was harnessing power inside her home, he lost all my sympathy. He treats his sister like crap most of the time, although she’s the one who stood by him through it all. The only one he was half-decent to was Kurt, and Kurt dies very soon in the novel, so that shatters quickly. No, I didn’t like Johnny, and that actually counted for more than half of the characters passing the revue in Long Black Coffin. I somewhat liked Kurt, but like I said, quick dead, and then he’s gone. I disliked all Johnny’s party friends because they shared his attitude. Stella, Kurt’s Mom, is a mess after his death, and although I felt sympathetic toward her at first, I wasn’t so sure about that anymore as the story progressed.
I liked the story’s originality. It’s not completely original, but there were parts here and there that intrigued me and felt unique, like the involvement of Vic’s car, and the connection between the murders and the entity haunting Stella’s home. Then again, there are elements that scream ‘been there, done that’, but that are still executed nicely in the book. What I found a pity, was how quick everything happened. The tension built up as Johnny found the hidden box in the basement, but after that, everything went so far, and some things went over the top at record speed, leaving little or no tension. I didn’t even feel scared after that. Too much happened at once, and it came too fast, and it was too gruesome, too grotesque, too disproportional for me to be scared anymore. Also, the constant references to sex, sexual depravity, SM and other, much worse things, made me feel sick to the stomach rather than frightened. Johnny discovers a videotape at some point in the book, showing how Vic humiliates and sexually tortures a young woman. The videotape is so bad Johnny can’t even watch it, and Johnny seems pretty messed up in that department himself. Having to read through that, I felt nothing but nausea. Even when it’s explained later on, I thought the link between why the girl enjoyed being hit hard, until she bled, and the reason behind it, very weak, and the story could’ve done well without. Maybe these elements were added to shock the reader, but trust me, with all the gore and death in this book already, it didn’t need anymore shock factor.
That said, at times I did very much enjoy reading this book. There were elements of surprise here and there, and I loved how the author often hinted at the solution, but didn’t reveal anything until the end. Most of what I mentioned I didn’t like here are very personal things as well. I’m not a big fan of adding sexual depravity everywhere. I didn’t get it in The Exorcist, I didn’t get it here either. Why would demons feed on humanity’s supposed repressed sexuality? I think adding these elements to show the darker side of humanity might work in some cases, but then it needs to be the focus, not a side-thought just to make matters worse than they already are. I absolutely hated Johnny for bailing on Stella when she needed him the most, and I found the backstory of the evil thing threatening town intriguing, although maybe a bit much at times. Throw everything bad you can possibly imagine in one person or creature, and you come up with this thing. Not the most subtle of horror stories, but a nice read, once you look past the sex and gore.
After Johnny’s best friend, Kurt, commits suicide in the same car his Dad killed himself in years prior, Johnny is left behind to pick up the pieces. Without Kurt and any real family to fall back on, his mother, Stella, is completely lost, and searches for love and support by reaching out to Johnny. But when the latter discovers something eerie in the basement of Stella’s house, he opens the door for something sinister to crawl through from the world beyond. Something is haunting Stella and her family, and somehow it’s related to the disappearance of several small children fifteen years ago. Stella starts acting strangely, utnil Johnny grows convinced she’s possessed. He discovers a tape in the basement, a tape showing Vic, Stella’s late husband, torturing a young woman. Johnny quickly jumps to conclusions about Kurt’s parents, but he may have to change his views when the girl returns from the death…
Our main character, Johnny Breede, is little more than a nobody in a town filled with nobodies. He spends his time drinking and doing drugs, and literally half of this book is filled with accounts of Johnny’s parties and interactions with people wasting their life almost as much as he is. It came up to the point I cared little or not about Johnny’s potential death – after all, he was just wasting his life away hopping from one wasted night into another. I know not every book needs a perfect protagonist, and in that sense, it was a relief to visit the opposite end of the spectrum for a change. There were little good qualities one could find in Johnny. He’s a coward, he’s incapable of truly loving anyone, and he leaves people at the first sight of trouble. When he kept leaving Kurt’s Mom alone to deal with whatever evil was harnessing power inside her home, he lost all my sympathy. He treats his sister like crap most of the time, although she’s the one who stood by him through it all. The only one he was half-decent to was Kurt, and Kurt dies very soon in the novel, so that shatters quickly. No, I didn’t like Johnny, and that actually counted for more than half of the characters passing the revue in Long Black Coffin. I somewhat liked Kurt, but like I said, quick dead, and then he’s gone. I disliked all Johnny’s party friends because they shared his attitude. Stella, Kurt’s Mom, is a mess after his death, and although I felt sympathetic toward her at first, I wasn’t so sure about that anymore as the story progressed.
I liked the story’s originality. It’s not completely original, but there were parts here and there that intrigued me and felt unique, like the involvement of Vic’s car, and the connection between the murders and the entity haunting Stella’s home. Then again, there are elements that scream ‘been there, done that’, but that are still executed nicely in the book. What I found a pity, was how quick everything happened. The tension built up as Johnny found the hidden box in the basement, but after that, everything went so far, and some things went over the top at record speed, leaving little or no tension. I didn’t even feel scared after that. Too much happened at once, and it came too fast, and it was too gruesome, too grotesque, too disproportional for me to be scared anymore. Also, the constant references to sex, sexual depravity, SM and other, much worse things, made me feel sick to the stomach rather than frightened. Johnny discovers a videotape at some point in the book, showing how Vic humiliates and sexually tortures a young woman. The videotape is so bad Johnny can’t even watch it, and Johnny seems pretty messed up in that department himself. Having to read through that, I felt nothing but nausea. Even when it’s explained later on, I thought the link between why the girl enjoyed being hit hard, until she bled, and the reason behind it, very weak, and the story could’ve done well without. Maybe these elements were added to shock the reader, but trust me, with all the gore and death in this book already, it didn’t need anymore shock factor.
That said, at times I did very much enjoy reading this book. There were elements of surprise here and there, and I loved how the author often hinted at the solution, but didn’t reveal anything until the end. Most of what I mentioned I didn’t like here are very personal things as well. I’m not a big fan of adding sexual depravity everywhere. I didn’t get it in The Exorcist, I didn’t get it here either. Why would demons feed on humanity’s supposed repressed sexuality? I think adding these elements to show the darker side of humanity might work in some cases, but then it needs to be the focus, not a side-thought just to make matters worse than they already are. I absolutely hated Johnny for bailing on Stella when she needed him the most, and I found the backstory of the evil thing threatening town intriguing, although maybe a bit much at times. Throw everything bad you can possibly imagine in one person or creature, and you come up with this thing. Not the most subtle of horror stories, but a nice read, once you look past the sex and gore.
September 14, 2018
Lo stile dell'autore mi ha ricordato un po' quello di King, anche se un gradino inferiore. Anche alcune scelte di trama sono palesemente recuperate da IT. La storia è carina, anche se ci sono parecchi punti spinti che a me personalmente non sono proprio piaciuti. Ok, la componente sessuale è preponderante nella trama, ma si poteva inserire in maniera un po' più velata ed elegante. Ecco perchè non mi sono sentita di dare più di 2 stelle.
February 1, 2013
This was a different read from the other other two Curran novels I've read (the awesome Dead Sea and very good Biohazard). The other two were more action-oriented and offered more thrills, chills and gore. I can enjoy a slow and subtle horror atmosphere building, but this one is a bit off-pace, like shifting abruptly from first gear to fourth about a third of the way in. It starts with several character introductions (that are mostly partying scenes with little story or character value) and we don't really get that much into the car aspect until 30% in, when Curran shifts down and lets the tires burn. Having read all of Stephen King's haunted car stories, I'd comparatively place this one somewhere in the middle, it's better than From a Buick 8, but not as strong as Christine.
The story being told in first person weakened the horror a bit for me. Ironically, only part of Christine is told in first person and I always wished that one would have been all told in first person, but then King couldn't have the parts where the car goes out and kills. Curran deals with other points of view creatively within the confines of first person narrative in this one, but it would have been more chilling for this reader to see it through the character's eyes versus being told what happened from character to character or .
With that said, the writing is excellent and I will continue looking forward to reading other stories by Curran. He is extremely skilled at description writing and imagery and can paint some pretty awesome mind paintings. His endings have been solid in all three novels I've read, too.
The story being told in first person weakened the horror a bit for me. Ironically, only part of Christine is told in first person and I always wished that one would have been all told in first person, but then King couldn't have the parts where the car goes out and kills. Curran deals with other points of view creatively within the confines of first person narrative in this one, but it would have been more chilling for this reader to see it through the character's eyes versus being told what happened from character to character or .
With that said, the writing is excellent and I will continue looking forward to reading other stories by Curran. He is extremely skilled at description writing and imagery and can paint some pretty awesome mind paintings. His endings have been solid in all three novels I've read, too.
January 9, 2013
A disturbing read. Who knew ghosts had such a strong libido?
So basically, a nutty woman has sex with the American/Indian version of the Swamp Thing and that baby grows up evil, gets killed, haunts the couple that killed her from their car (a classic GTO, but still, wtf?), kills a few kids, has the husband commit suicide, kills the couple's son by asphyxiation, then the son best friend sets out for revenge... inhalling long breath....
Oh, and the best friend is basically a going-nowhere, chain-smoking, beer-guzzling, whiskey-drinking, pot-smoking, trailer-trash, 23-year-old you're supposed to feel sympathetic to? really?
Sorry, I couldn't really connect with any of the characters, even the sex-scenes, you're supposed to get turned on, I guess, but »I could never shake the thought that I wouldn't touch the women in this book with a ten-foot pole... better yet, let me know where these kind of women hang out so I avoid ever going there.
So basically, a nutty woman has sex with the American/Indian version of the Swamp Thing and that baby grows up evil, gets killed, haunts the couple that killed her from their car (a classic GTO, but still, wtf?), kills a few kids, has the husband commit suicide, kills the couple's son by asphyxiation, then the son best friend sets out for revenge... inhalling long breath....
Oh, and the best friend is basically a going-nowhere, chain-smoking, beer-guzzling, whiskey-drinking, pot-smoking, trailer-trash, 23-year-old you're supposed to feel sympathetic to? really?
Sorry, I couldn't really connect with any of the characters, even the sex-scenes, you're supposed to get turned on, I guess, but »I could never shake the thought that I wouldn't touch the women in this book with a ten-foot pole... better yet, let me know where these kind of women hang out so I avoid ever going there.
December 8, 2012
A complex "ghost" story that unravels like a twisting dark ride where you will be shocked, confused, and disturbed by what you see through the eyes of Johnny Breede. Troubled with guilt and sadness over his best friends suicide and overpowered by desire for a woman that holds the key to understanding it all - Johnny begins to unlock the truth of what secrets are held by his friend before his death, perverse secrets buried deep in the cellar, horrific memories of sin and murder, and the mystery contained within the long black coffin.
Sick and perverse - a unique story by Curran.
A winding twisted tale, it could have been just a bit short to keep it moving fast - Johnny Breede is a bit prone to thinking too much - it's not a straightforward "ghost" story and offers plenty of horror for those that are used to Currans work.
Sick and perverse - a unique story by Curran.
A winding twisted tale, it could have been just a bit short to keep it moving fast - Johnny Breede is a bit prone to thinking too much - it's not a straightforward "ghost" story and offers plenty of horror for those that are used to Currans work.
November 16, 2012
A complex "ghost" story that unravels like a twisting dark ride where you will be shocked, confused, and disturbed by what you see through the eyes of Johnny Breede. Troubled with guilt and sadness over his best friends suicide and overpowered by desire for a woman that holds the key to understanding it all - Johnny begins to unlock the truth of what secrets are held by his friend before his death, perverse secrets buried deep in the cellar, horrific memories of sin and murder, and the mystery contained within the long black coffin.
Sick and perverse - a unique story by Curran.
A winding twisted tale, it could have been just a bit short to keep it moving fast - Johnny Breede is a bit prone to thinking too much - it's not a straightforward "ghost" story and offers plenty of horror for those that are used to Currans work.
Sick and perverse - a unique story by Curran.
A winding twisted tale, it could have been just a bit short to keep it moving fast - Johnny Breede is a bit prone to thinking too much - it's not a straightforward "ghost" story and offers plenty of horror for those that are used to Currans work.
December 4, 2012
This book is a ghost story on steriods. The characters are raw and down to earth, there is some language and sex in the book but all fits well in the fabric of the story, as yfeelou become familair with the characters you can feel that this how they would speak so it fits. The sex caught me a bit off guard after the first time the situation came up but as the writer moves you through the story you understand why it is a reocurring theme. I love the fact that the story is told by the main character, it is almost like he is personally telling you his story. I was a great read, scarey yet not predictable.
January 12, 2013
A well written, real page turner filled with graphic horror prose steeped in both the supernatural and the true crime realities of modern monsters. Certainly one of the perks of belonging to the Dark Fuse Book Club is owning these fine quality signed first edition hardcovers at such an economical price. This is the second novel I have purchased and read written by Tim Curran-- a writer who can reach out and grab you and pull you into his truly twisted world. Great stuff.
May 30, 2017
one of my friends read this and enjoyed it. I just couldn't
May 12, 2018
La lettura di un qualunque romanzo horror che abbia come elemento cardine un’automobile posseduta non può non iniziare all’ombra dell’ingombrante confronto con Christine di Stephen King. Impresa ardua per chiunque, anche per uno scrittore che sa scrivere horror come Tim Curran. Per fortuna, ed è bene dirlo fin dall’inizio, è un confronto che non si è mai costretti a fare davvero, vuoi per differenze di scrittura, vuoi per differenze di atmosfere e trama. Quest’ultima non ha fretta di rivelarsi: l’autore si prende tutto il tempo necessario per mostrare l’ambientazione nella cittadina di Lynnstown ai margini della Sagwa Wood, per introdurre i personaggi e il protagonista Johnny Breede e per tracciare i primi sentieri narrativi. Per una buona metà del romanzo si snodano prevalentemente in orizzontale, ampliando il contesto narrativo e abbracciando tutto il mondo di Johnny. È un mondo terribile, fatto di vecchie storie che tornano e bambini che invece non lo faranno mai più, adescati da quell’uomo nero che è l’incubo di tutti i bambini del mondo. Qui l’incubo diventa reale, segna l’infanzia di Johnny e di tutta Lynnstown, lascia dietro di sé misteri mai risolti e si riaffaccia dopo anni, quando Johnny è ormai uomo e rimane coinvolto nelle vicende oscure della famiglia del suo migliore amico, i Tamerlyn.
Nel loro garage c’è la Bara, la vecchia GTO del padrone di casa, che non usa più nessuno da quando lui si è suicidato sparandosi in bocca seduto al suo interno.
È attorno alla macchina che si concentra per buona parte del romanzo la tensione narrativa e l’attenzione del lettore. C’è qualcosa in quell’auto, qualcosa di malvagio, qualcosa che attira le forze del male e fa succedere cose terribili. Non si capisce cosa, anche se tutto lascia pensare a una possessione, ma è tenendo sott’occhio quell’auto che si procede nella lettura.
A questo punto la trama smette di prendere diramazioni laterali per puntare dritto in verticale in quello che diventerà l’incubo di Johnny. E anche del lettore, perché Tim Curran sa il fatto suo: disgusta quando vuole disgustare, fa inorridire quando vuole far inorridire, fa tremare quando vuole far tremare.
A volte però eccede. Rimanere sulla sola possessione dell’auto rischiava in effetti di essere piuttosto banale e appare quindi giusta la scelta di aggiungere qualcosa in più per dare maggior spessore all’aspetto orrorifico del libro. Il dosaggio non è stato tuttavia ottimale, con il risultato di aver infilato nella storia fin troppi elementi horror: un’automobile malvagia, possessioni, fantasmi, streghe della foresta, rapimenti di bambini, sadismo, masochismo, perversioni sessuali, forze maligne primordiali. Con tutti questi ingredienti spesso viene fuori un minestrone. Curran è abile a farne un’ottima zuppa, anche se la lunga bara nera del titolo si perde un po’ in mezzo a tutti gli altri sapori.
Nel loro garage c’è la Bara, la vecchia GTO del padrone di casa, che non usa più nessuno da quando lui si è suicidato sparandosi in bocca seduto al suo interno.
È attorno alla macchina che si concentra per buona parte del romanzo la tensione narrativa e l’attenzione del lettore. C’è qualcosa in quell’auto, qualcosa di malvagio, qualcosa che attira le forze del male e fa succedere cose terribili. Non si capisce cosa, anche se tutto lascia pensare a una possessione, ma è tenendo sott’occhio quell’auto che si procede nella lettura.
A questo punto la trama smette di prendere diramazioni laterali per puntare dritto in verticale in quello che diventerà l’incubo di Johnny. E anche del lettore, perché Tim Curran sa il fatto suo: disgusta quando vuole disgustare, fa inorridire quando vuole far inorridire, fa tremare quando vuole far tremare.
A volte però eccede. Rimanere sulla sola possessione dell’auto rischiava in effetti di essere piuttosto banale e appare quindi giusta la scelta di aggiungere qualcosa in più per dare maggior spessore all’aspetto orrorifico del libro. Il dosaggio non è stato tuttavia ottimale, con il risultato di aver infilato nella storia fin troppi elementi horror: un’automobile malvagia, possessioni, fantasmi, streghe della foresta, rapimenti di bambini, sadismo, masochismo, perversioni sessuali, forze maligne primordiali. Con tutti questi ingredienti spesso viene fuori un minestrone. Curran è abile a farne un’ottima zuppa, anche se la lunga bara nera del titolo si perde un po’ in mezzo a tutti gli altri sapori.
February 6, 2017
This was a fun read. Told from the perspective of Johnny aka "Little Breed," a young man who drinks too much and is going no where in life fast, as he deals with the falling out from his best friend's death and the fact that there may be evil supernatural forces at work.
Johnny is a burn-out, working a dead-end job and drinking his nights away in the same town he grew up in. When Johnny's best friend Kurt dies in the same car his abusive father committed suicide in, Johnny's reality slowly begins to unravel. A mysterious figure haunts the corners of his vision, Kurt's mother begins speaking to him in a voice that isn't his own, and the smell of mold and death follows him around.
The plot in this book would rival any current horror movie out there, with twists and turns and disturbing details slowly being revealed. The only reason this book didn't rate five stars for me is I felt disconnected from Johnny and his relationships--his codependency with his sister, the disturbing and heated exchanges with Kurt's grieving mother, the tight friendships formed with the other town burn outs--all fell a little flat for me, particularly at the end. However, the top-rated horror in this book more than made up for the lackluster connections between our protagonists and this book is a good read for any fans of scary movies.
Johnny is a burn-out, working a dead-end job and drinking his nights away in the same town he grew up in. When Johnny's best friend Kurt dies in the same car his abusive father committed suicide in, Johnny's reality slowly begins to unravel. A mysterious figure haunts the corners of his vision, Kurt's mother begins speaking to him in a voice that isn't his own, and the smell of mold and death follows him around.
The plot in this book would rival any current horror movie out there, with twists and turns and disturbing details slowly being revealed. The only reason this book didn't rate five stars for me is I felt disconnected from Johnny and his relationships--his codependency with his sister, the disturbing and heated exchanges with Kurt's grieving mother, the tight friendships formed with the other town burn outs--all fell a little flat for me, particularly at the end. However, the top-rated horror in this book more than made up for the lackluster connections between our protagonists and this book is a good read for any fans of scary movies.
December 16, 2020
“𝑳’𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒂̀ 𝒔𝒊 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒗𝒂 𝒏𝒖𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂 𝒎𝒊𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂,𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒛𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐 𝒊𝒍 𝒎𝒊𝒐 𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒊𝒖̀ 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆 𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒐 𝒅𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒗𝒐 𝒑𝒊𝒖̀ 𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐 𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒍𝒆.
𝑬 𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒃𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒍 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒐,𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊 𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒃𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒐𝒍𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒍𝒆.” 🖤
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Buonasera Readers.
Ho da poco concluso la lettura del libro
“𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑪𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒏: 𝑼𝒏𝒂 𝒍𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂” di Tim Curran.
È stato il primo libro che ho letto di questo autore.
Storia avvincente e descritta molto bene..ho adorato la descrizione di ogni personaggio e la loro storia,un modo per far conoscere al lettore i suoi protagonisti e il loro passato.
Notando però che la storia è leggermente simile al libro “𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒆” di Stephen King seppur in modo differente.
Lettura scorrevole che vede come protagonista Johnny Breede..che conduce una vita allo sbando insieme al suo migliore amico Kurt.
La Bara è una GTO del ‘67 con una storia,una maledizione ed è affamata di morte e vendetta.
La storia condurrà Johnny in una ragnatela di omicidi dopo la morte del suo migliore amico morto in quella bara.
Follia e perversioni sessuali non mancheranno in questo romanzo..
Conducendo il ragazzo nella scoperta di una serie di bambini scomparsi a un male primordiale che vive nell'auto sotto forma di una sadica ragazza adolescente. Una ragazza la cui madre era umana, ma il cui padre era tutt'altro...
Riuscirà Breede a sconfiggere questo male?
𝑬 𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒃𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒍 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒐,𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊 𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒃𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒐𝒍𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒍𝒆.” 🖤
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Buonasera Readers.
Ho da poco concluso la lettura del libro
“𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑪𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒏: 𝑼𝒏𝒂 𝒍𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂” di Tim Curran.
È stato il primo libro che ho letto di questo autore.
Storia avvincente e descritta molto bene..ho adorato la descrizione di ogni personaggio e la loro storia,un modo per far conoscere al lettore i suoi protagonisti e il loro passato.
Notando però che la storia è leggermente simile al libro “𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒆” di Stephen King seppur in modo differente.
Lettura scorrevole che vede come protagonista Johnny Breede..che conduce una vita allo sbando insieme al suo migliore amico Kurt.
La Bara è una GTO del ‘67 con una storia,una maledizione ed è affamata di morte e vendetta.
La storia condurrà Johnny in una ragnatela di omicidi dopo la morte del suo migliore amico morto in quella bara.
Follia e perversioni sessuali non mancheranno in questo romanzo..
Conducendo il ragazzo nella scoperta di una serie di bambini scomparsi a un male primordiale che vive nell'auto sotto forma di una sadica ragazza adolescente. Una ragazza la cui madre era umana, ma il cui padre era tutt'altro...
Riuscirà Breede a sconfiggere questo male?
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