Bentley Little: The Vanishing

[lenny nero]

Little's got a new one coming out in August. I skipped his last one, The Burning, as it didn't sound that great, but this one sounds pretty good.

From Publishers Weekly
Those with weak stomachs will want to skip Little's latest shocker (after The Burning), which dishes out blood, bowels, mutilation and rape with an unsettling knack for the truly repulsive. Parallel stories revolve around several bloody episodes in which previously respectable California businessmen turn into raving killers, torturing and slaughtering their families. Heroes Brian Howells, a journalist investigating a blood-stained letter from his estranged father, and Carrie Daniels, a social worker looking into a series of beastly birth defects, team up to find out what's behind it all. As Brian and Carrie unearth the secrets of families and friends, flashbacks tell the story of a 19th-century would-be gold prospector who discovers primordial, succubuslike beings swarming the Californian backwoods, beings that now stalk a present-day family on vacation. Little's swift prose jumps from one gut-twister to the next, providing an engrossing if familiar romp that ends in a messy Lovecraftian climax, which may prove too absurd for some readers to swallow. Despite shortcomings, Little again displays, with a plethora of gore and perversion, his robust ability to disgust (and delight) even the most seasoned horror enthusiast. (Aug.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

 

[RAC42]

Might have to check it out. I have read some of his older stuff awhile back, but not any of his newer stuff. I read "The Revelation" not long ago.
I just got "The Dispatch" and "The Collection", but have not had a chance to crack them open yet.

 

[lenny nero]

Revelation and Dispatch were good, haven't read The Collection yet.

 

[Anamnesis]

Sounds promising. Although hasn't he written a few novels where some evil is unleashed that was either created or discovered in the 1800's? The Resort is the first one that comes to mind . . .

 

[lenny nero]

The Vanishing was pretty good, not his best but still worth a read. Little seems to have been reading a lot of Edward Lee and Brian Keene, this is the by far the most gruesome book I've read of his. A lot more graphic than the past ones I've read by him. My only quibble is the title, it doesn't really have anything to do with the story. I would recommend this one to fans of his.