Sunday, May 16, 2010

Nevermore (A Supernatural Novel) by Keith R.A. DeCandido

What's on the back of the book:
Twenty-two years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. In the years after, their father, John, taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America. . .and he taught them how to kill it.

Sam and Dean have hit New York City to check out a local rocker's haunted house. But before they can figure out why a lovesick banshee in an '80s heavy-metal T-shirt is wailing in the bedroom, a far more macabre crime catches their attention. Not far from the house, two university students were beaten to death by a strange assailant. A murder that's bizarre even by New York City standards, it's the latest in a line of killings that the brothers soon suspect are based on the creepy stories of legendary writer Edgar Allan Poe.

Their investigation leads them to the center of one of Poe's horror classics, face-to-face with their most terrifying foe yet. And if Sam and Dean don't rewrite the ending of this chilling tale, a grisly serial killer will end their lives forevermore.

A piece from the book:
Dean could clearly hear wood snapping. Given that the apartment was completely empty except for some shiny new hardwood on the floor, Dean figured it to be the flooring. Wasn't one of Poe's stories about hiding a corpse in the floorboards?
Mackey ran in, and promptly tripped and fell on his face.
Glancing down, Dean saw that someone had taken the precaution of laying a tripwire a few feet into the front room.
Sam jumped over the tripwire and into the next room, where the sound was coming from.
Or, Rather, he tried to. Mackey chose the moment when Sam was jumping over him to try to get up, and his shoulder collided with Sam's long legs. The two of them went down in a tangle of denim and polyester.
Dean stepped over them both, pistol ready. "Hold it!" he yelled, but he only saw two legs going out the window onto the fire escape. The stench of decaying meat made Dean's nostril hairs stand at attention.
Dean went straight for the window, pausing to turn around for only a second. "Stay with that jackass!" he said to Sam, pointing at Mackey. Dean also caught sight of several pieces of ripped-up hardwood and bits of wormwood.
He turned and climbed through the window.
How the hell did we miss this?

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