by Brian Keene
The town of Walden is surrounded by an impenetrable curtain of darkness. There are whispers in the blackness and the darkness has teeth. It is strong. Worse yet, it is patient.Looting, violence, and murder are running rampant throughout the town. Robbie and his gang are content to wait it out and pr...
One morning the people of Walden, Virginia wake up to find that their town is surrounded by darkness, and that the rest of the world is just gone.There is no electricity, nothing can get in the town. If anyone leaves the town, the darkness just swallows them whole.Robbie, his girlfriend Christy and ...
Originally read December 6, 2013 True story… It was a dark and stormy night here in the Atlanta suburbs when I began reading this book. I read up to about 25% and then started to feel sleepy, so I put my Kindle down to get ready for bed. As I was slipping into my pajamas, my mind was still on the...
Very restrained Keene, with lots of atmosphere and a little flab around the middle. If you like Brian Keene, you'll like this book. If you like super-extreme splatter-punk, this might be a bit of a drag for you. I get the feeling this may have been better as a novella - or even a short story. It is ...
While this book did have a few genuinely unsettling moments, there just wasn't anything particularly noteworthy or compelling here. As I was reading this book I kept thinking how similar to Stephen King's "The Mist" it seemed... then one of the characters actually asked if the other characters had s...
SummaryOne morning the residents of Walden, Virginia, woke to find themselves cut off from the rest of the world by an impenetrable wall of darkness.ReviewThis is my eight book by Brian Keene. He is probably one of my favourite horror writers. My interest began in The Rising and City of the Dead bac...
I am really starting to dig Brian Keene. This is the third book I've read by him. Dead Sea was an end of the world novel about zombies. The Conqueror Worms was an end of the world novel about Lovecraftian sea serpents and giant worms. Darkness on the Edge of Town is...you guessed it... an end of the...
This is not a review. It is much more like my two cents on what I thought about this book. Darkness on the Edge of Town is in my opinion, obviously, Brian Keene's best book since Dead Sea. Although reminiscent of H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King's novella The Mist, especially the ending of the latter...
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