Pretty Little Dead Things
by:
Gary McMahon (author)
THOMAS USHER HAS A MOST TERRIBLE TALENT.Following a car crash in which his wife and daughter are killed, he can see the recently departed, and it's not usually a pretty sight. When he is called to investigate the violent death of the daughter of a prominent local gangster, Usher's world is torn...
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THOMAS USHER HAS A MOST TERRIBLE TALENT.Following a car crash in which his wife and daughter are killed, he can see the recently departed, and it's not usually a pretty sight. When he is called to investigate the violent death of the daughter of a prominent local gangster, Usher's world is torn apart once more. For the barriers between this world and the next are not as immutable as once he believed.Mashing together the grittiest British police procedural with dark supernatural terror, author Gary McMahon creates a refreshingly new take on horror fiction. FILE UNDER: Horror [See the Dead / Skin Trade / Beyond Reality / A Sacrifice]
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780857660701 (0857660705)
Publish date: December 28th 2010
Publisher: Angry Robot
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Series: Thomas Usher (#1)
27/2 - Can this live up to the hype that I've heard going around about it? I haven't read or heard any praise, or criticism, just a lot of excited hype. According to Ramsey Campbell (who the hell is Ramsey Campbell?), on the back of the book, Gary McMahon is "one of our darkest - which is to say bri...
Thomas Usher sees dead people – the bigger problem is that worse things can see him...Thomas Usher is a tortured soul, weighed down with guilt after the death of his wife and child following a car accident which left them dead and him with the ability to see dead people.I wanted to read his book bec...
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